Snapchat’s Stories now feels like one great feature as everyone now wants to jump on it. It was Instagram who directly ripped off the feature and later was added to Facebook and Messenger, now it is YouTube who wants in. The feature on YouTube was first spotted a while ago and it looks exactly like the one we are using on Instagram. Continue reading “YouTube said to be testing Instagram-like Stories”
Update – July 30, 2018: Even though the company said that Dark Theme is coming to Android soon, a Reddit users has received the feature, so we can expect it to roll out for Android in the coming weeks.
YouTube today has announced it is pushing an update to the YouTube video player on the desktop. The player now automatically adapts to provide the best viewing experience based on the video’s size and your screen size. After Android and iOS, this update is now coming to the desktop. Continue reading “YouTube web player updated to adapt to different aspect ratios”
YouTube TV introduced a picture-in-picture mode with Android 8.0 Oreo back in November and has also extended to its Premium and Music services. The videos are minimised to a corner to let you keep watching while browsing around other apps. However, it now seems to be rolling out to non-paying YouTube users. Continue reading “YouTube picture-in-picture will be available to all Android users”
YouTube at the VidCon 2018 online video conference in California has introduced a handful of new monetization and engagement features for creators. The channel memberships is same as one of existing service that the company has been testing for a while; sponsorships. Continue reading “YouTube brings more monetisation options through channel memberships, merchandise, and premieres”
PayPal and Google already work together to allow users to pay via PayPal in-store, online and in-app with Google Pay and on Chrome mobile web at millions of online merchants using their PayPal accounts. Today both the companies are extending their partnership across Google ecosystem. Continue reading “PayPal is now integrated as payment solution within Gmail, YouTube, Google Pay and Google Store”
Jumping back and forth between YouTube and music streaming services might be seeing their final days as YouTube just unveiled ‘YouTube Music’ streaming service. The company says that it is a new music streaming service is made for music with the magic of YouTube. Continue reading “YouTube Music streaming service announced, comes in free ad-supported and ad-free paid versions”
YouTube starting today is adding artist, songwriter, label and publisher credits to videos. It will answer those questions with “Music in this video” crediting the one who contributed to the music. The company is adding credits to more than half a billion videos. Continue reading “YouTube adds automatic artist, songwriter, label and publisher credits to videos”
Incognito Mode in apps lets you use their functionality without being tracked and without your actions being logged into your usage history. It is reported that YouTube is testing incognito mode in its Android app Continue reading “YouTube said to be testing Incognito Mode on its Android app”
At the Google I/O event, the company announced its digital well-being initiative to help people better understand their digital habits. One inclusion to this initiative is ‘Take a break’ self-set timer within YouTube to refrain users from spending too much time watching videos. Today, the feature is rolling out to YouTube for Android. Continue reading “YouTube for Android now lets you set a reminder to take a break”
If rumors and reports are to be believed, Google will replace Play Music with a new music streaming ‘YouTube Remix.’ Users of Play Music also said to be forced off of Play Music by the end of 2018 and will be asked to switch to YouTube Remix. Continue reading “Google said to replace Play Music with YouTube Remix”
Earlier this month there were reports that YouTube for Kids is getting a new Whitelisted version and today, the company is rolling a bunch of new features that fall in line with the reports. Parents now get the ability only to show human-approved content. Continue reading “YouTube for kids gets Whitelisted version with parent approved content”
YouTube’s dynamic player was available on iOS since December, and now it is rolling out to Android as well. The dynamic player will automatically adjust according to content in different aspect ratios. Continue reading “YouTube dynamic player for square and vertical videos now rolling out for Android”
YouTube just made it easy to go live both from your computer and phone. Earlier to go live on YouTube using an encoder, it needed few steps to do so, today, the company is making it easy just by clicking “Go live” in the YouTube header or directly visit the youtube.com/webcam. Continue reading “YouTube will soon let you go live directly from your smartphone camera”
YouTube for iOS and Android feature the picture-in-picture option for quite some time now and it looks like YouTube is aiming to bring the same to the web as well. The company is currently testing out the feature on a small subset of users. Continue reading “YouTube testing picture-in-picture mode on the web to watch and browse videos simultaneously”
