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Over the past few years, YouTube has been tweaking its desktop interface with features such as dark mode and, more importantly, Material Design influences. Today, Google has announced that it will kill off the classic YouTube desktop interface in March 2020.

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During the Alphabet 2019 Q4 earnings call, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai provided an update on how many paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers there are. There were also official figures for cord-cutting service YouTube TV.

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YouTube Music is evolving into a pretty good music streaming platform with some features and perks that others can’t quite match. However, a wider issue going on with YouTube is causing Music to restrict some Disney songs and others that are “Made for Kids.”

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YouTube Premium today is comprised of ad-free and background playback of videos and music, as well as offline downloads. An upcoming perk could give subscribers paying $11.99 one free channel membership every month.

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Google today announced a multi-year strategic relationship with a big game developer that spans various parts of the company. Google Cloud will become Activision Blizzard’s preferred provider for game hosting as YouTube becomes the exclusive live eSports streaming partner.

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YouTube is one of the largest platforms in the world for video streaming, but it’s also a social network of sorts. In an effort to “build connections,” YouTube is launching a new feature called Profile Cards that houses a shortcut for a user’s channel in the comments section, as well as their comment history.

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Last year, Google made YouTube’s Home tab more manageable by adding a carousel of personalized topics. YouTube for iOS today is adding filters in the Subscriptions feed to better sort through your videos.

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In recent months, Microsoft Mixer made waves by signing exclusive streaming deals with top Twitch stars. Not to be left out, YouTube today announced that it has signed three creators with a combined 21 million subscribers to similar arrangements while providing a 2019 gaming update.

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Over the past year, YouTube has had to make some major changes to how privacy is handled surrounding children, which has had major implications for users of the platform. Starting today, the COPPA-based changes start to take effect on YouTube (via Bloomberg).

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If you live in certain parts of the world or have a YouTube Premium subscription, you can download YouTube videos within the app so that you can watch them offline. Unfortunately, the same functionality isn’t available on Windows platforms, but you can perform a YouTube download in Windows using BlueStacks.

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YouTube creators have long struggled with copyrighted content and, more often than not, it requires pulling down a re-editing a video entirely. With its latest Studio update, YouTube is bringing a new copyright tool called “Assisted Trim” which can remove a copyrighted segment of a video without removing it from the platform.

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In a report regarding YouTube’s “Year of Responsibility,” Bloomberg revealed an interesting detail. Apparently, YouTube Kids was originally going to be manually curated for every piece of content on the platform.

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YouTube’s Android app is about to be the testing grounds for a handy new feature for creators. Soon, YouTube will add a “featured in this video” section to videos that involved any collaborators instead of having creators push that information into a cluttered description.

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Over the past 18 months, YouTube Premium and Music Premium has expanded around the world. Rolled out to India in March, the Google video site is particularly popular and competitive.

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YouTube Rewind is an annual way to look back at the platform’s most loved trends, videos, and creators, but in 2018, that’s not what it did. YouTube isn’t shy about how much last year’s Rewind was hated and for 2019, they took a completely different approach.

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YouTube in recent years has been pushing its subscription services from Premium to TV. To boost sales this holiday season, the Google company is bringing YouTube gift codes to the US, starting with Amazon.

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YouTube Rewind is an annual way to highlight some of the platform’s biggest creators and trends, but sometimes it doesn’t go all that well. For its 2019 Rewind, YouTube says it’s taking a completely different direction compared to the year before in a brief teaser.

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