In August 2017, YouTube introduced a “Messages” feature for its mobile apps and later the web. Two years later, the Google video site announced that its killing the built-in chatting functionality next month.

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Back in May, YouTube confirmed that its Originals programming would soon be free with ads. In an email to Premium subscribers today, the Google video site provided a date for when this change will begin. expand full story

YouTube’s copyright system can sometimes be a double-edged sword. For some YouTube creators, the use of brief music clips in their videos has seen copyright holders and music companies become the source of lost revenue. Now, YouTube is making changes to prevent that.

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In an effort to make it easy for creators to tell their side of the story, YouTube is making it possible for a video to be submitted with an appeal on ad bans, at least for some creators.

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YouTube is testing a homepage redesign on the web that leverages very large video thumbnails. Greatly hurting information density, this big YouTube homepage A/B test is currently being panned by the users that have it.

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