Following a new look and a number of new features that were delivered to users earlier this week, YouTube has started rolling out separate tabs for Live Videos, Shorts, and Videos today. According to YouTube, the move will make it simpler for viewers to find the types of material they are most interested in when discovering a creator’s channel page. Continue reading “YouTube gets Separate Tabs for Videos, Shorts, Live Videos”
Starting today, YouTube has a new look and a number of new features that will improve the user experience by making streaming more modern and immersive. Recently, YouTube introduced channel handles for easier mentions. Continue reading “YouTube gets an updated look, pinch to zoom and more”
In order to make it simpler for users to discover and converse with creators and one another on the Google-owned streaming platform, YouTube has introduced handles. Although the service has attempted to personalize things with channel URLs, it is now going a step further with distinct handles for each channel, providing artists and viewers with a new means of communication. This means that in the future, channel pages and YouTube Shorts will both display handles. Continue reading “YouTube introduces channel handles for easier mentions”
YouTube is experimenting with placing its 4K content under a YouTube Premium membership. Several users reported witnessing playback of 2160p HD video restricted with wording designating it as a paid feature in recent weeks. Continue reading “YouTube tests requiring Premium subscription for 4K videos”
Google is launching the next round of our platform’s rewards for creativity. The next generation of creative entrepreneurs is supported by Made on YouTube. Additional opportunities for creators to earn money with Shorts, more options for creators to become partners, and a new vision for the music industry’s relationship with creators are also revealed. Continue reading “YouTube to share ad revenue with Shorts creators”
Google has officially announced that YouTube’s Universal App and TrueView campaigns would soon support vertical video advertisements. As the company develops new methods to create vertical video advertising on YouTube, the company undoubtedly wants to adapt to the requirements of the constantly expanding mobile audience in the best way possible. Continue reading “YouTube ML to turn landscape video ads into vertical; testing 5 to 10 unskippable ‘bumper ads’”
YouTube has introduced a new feature that will help users discover the most popular portions of a video they’re viewing, as well as a number of other updates to its video player. According to the company, it will be adding a graph that will allow users to quickly identify and watch the most replayed segments of videos. Continue reading “YouTube rolls out most replayed parts, single loop and more”
YouTube Go will be closed down permanently in August. The YouTube team has announced that it is discontinuing the lightweight alternative to its main app, primarily because it has become obsolete over time. Continue reading “YouTube Go shutting down starting this August”
YouTube Shorts creators will now be able to use video clips from billions of YouTube clips in new shorts. Earlier, creators of YouTube Shorts could only splice short audio clips from other videos on the platform. Users will be able to clip 1- to 5-second portions from eligible long-form videos, as well as “Shorts” to use in new short-form content with the most recent update. Continue reading “YouTube Shorts arrives for tablets, gets new features”
YouTube has begun testing a new feature that allows users to express reactions during certain points in a video. Similar in style to Facebook Live and Twitch, each video’s comment section will have a separate reaction pane that will display emoji reactions by the time. Continue reading “YouTube is testing emoji-based ‘Timed Reactions’ for videos”
YouTube announced today that it has started rolling out health source information panels and health content shelves features in India, with the goal of providing users with reliable sources for health-related information in the nation. Continue reading “YouTube Health adds two new features In India: Here’s how they work”
Following the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories or fake news circulating largely through social media. Continue reading “How to check if WhatsApp forwards are true or not”
Started with Snapchat, Facebook extended the ‘Stories’ feature to Whatsapp and Instagram last year. Falling in the same line, Google has rolled out the much-used feature on YouTube as Reels in 2017 to about 100 creators. Continue reading “Google is rolling out Snapchat-like AR effects to YouTube Stories”
The term ‘Fake news’ is seen as the greatest threat and has the ability to fracture our society. The main sources for this unverified news are indeed the social media platform including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Continue reading “YouTube is rolling out ‘fact checks’ on sensitive topics to combat fake news in India”
With an aim to improve child safety on YouTube, the company over the past week, we disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior. These efforts are focused on videos featuring young minors. It said that it will continue to identify videos at risk over the next few months. Continue reading “YouTube disables comments on videos featuring kids; introduces new comment classifier”
