YouTube is Google's massive video streaming platform, accepting videos from creators large and small
YouTube is a major video platform owned by Google — and it has grown to be one of the most famous social media destinations on the web.
Views on YouTube are a huge pop culture metric that define popularity and success. Google today is launching YouTube Music Charts in India, thus “closing a critical gap.”
In this day and age, YouTube views are a huge cultural metric and often used to define popularity. One place this occurs regularly is music videos, and today, Google is revising the YouTube Music Charts and 24-hour record debut policy to not factor in ad-based views.
YouTube Premium and Music now expands to a further seven European nations as the service continues to grow all over the globe and reach an even wider audience.
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To tap into how the video site is already a destination for beauty videos and style tips, YouTube.com/Fashion is launching today. This “single destination for style content on YouTube” features a unique homepage and video watching experience on mobile.
The Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General announced today that Google will pay $170 million over alleged children’s privacy violations on YouTube. In response, the video service will be implementing a number of changes related to kids.
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.
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YouTube has historically lacked a built-in queue, and many users have instead turned to playlists. The service is now officially testing “Add to queue” on the web, and all are free to try it out for the next two weeks.
Despite some minor controversies, YouTube Kids has become a valuable tool for parents to help find content for their kids. Today, YouTube is announcing two big updates for the platform, with new age filters and a YouTube Kids experience for the web.
YouTube has begun the process of adding labels to videos that are funded in part or in full by the public or government organizations in select regions. YouTube states that this new feature is live in 10 regions, which includes Hong Kong, and has been added to provide viewers a little more context about video publishers.
Major League Baseball is now in full swing for the 2019 season. Now, a new deal has just been inked to have YouTube be the exclusive place to watch 13 MLB games later this season.
YouTube can be found on just about every platform you can imagine, but sometimes they don’t last forever. Next week, YouTube will pull the plug on its official app for Nintendo 3DS.
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.
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.
The Super Chat feature for YouTube has been around for a couple of years, allowing you to send cash to your favorite live streamers. It has been available widely and is now rolling out to a further 19 countries.
YouTube’s paid Premium and Music services are a pretty good value on their own, but students can get an even better deal. YouTube Premium and Music are offering a 3-month trial of their half-price student plans.
After finally settling their differences last month, Google and Amazon are putting apps on each other’s platforms. This week, Amazon has confirmed that the new official YouTube app for Fire TV devices has fully rolled out to all hardware including the original Fire TV Stick.
App availability is a fairly common complaint about Samsung’s wearables, but a couple of big names are debuting with the Galaxy Watch Active2. Alongside an official Twitter app, YouTube is also arriving on the Galaxy Watch Active2, and it’s also going to be coming to other Samsung Tizen smartwatches.
Autoplaying videos are a major driver of YouTube views and helps keep you on the site. Google is now testing a revamped “Up next” UI on Android that’s larger and easier to interact with.
Livestreaming gameplay has become very popular over the past few years, and YouTube is one huge platform for that content. In its latest update, the YouTube app for Android has added an option to livestream the content on your phone’s display, including Android games.
It appears that YouTube is now adding the ability for Premium subscribers to now download videos in 1080p for the first time.
YouTube has retained its position at the top of the charts in terms of user spending — at least for video apps — generating $138 million in that category for Q2 2019, according to a report by SensorTower.
YouTube is arguably the most popular music streaming service thanks to its free nature. Views on videos are a big popularity metric, but the practice of being able to buy higher counts through ads is leading YouTube to reportedly reevaluate views and records.
At VidCon 2019 today, YouTube introduced new ways for creators to monetize content and videos on the Google site. YouTube Super Stickers build off Super Chats, while Channel Memberships are gaining tier levels.