For the first time, the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video. It will also continue to air on the radio.

President-elect Obama plans to to publish these weekly updates through the Transition and then from the White House. Truly instituting his message of change, the ‘Bam-camp continues to show its mastery of new media, transitioning the weekly “radio address” into a series of Web videos.

Oddly enough, despite knowing that the videos were being posted on YouTube, I couldn’t find it through a simple search for “Your Weekly Address from the President-elect” (the title of the video), or on the Barack Obama YouTube Channel, showing that we’ve still got a long way to go in video search.

Mr. President-elect: If you happen to be reading OVW, give us a shout. We’d be happy to help you with your online video strategy. After getting more than 137,000 subscribers to your “BarackObamaDotCom” channel, and then dropping the new video on the “ChangeDotGov” channel, I’m guessing you’re going to lose a few people.

UPDATE: The video has since started turning up in the search results.

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