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One big critique of YouTube is its recommendations engine that can surface videos that would otherwise not have a wide audience. The Google video site today announced “more control” by letting you remove channels from Homepage and Up Next recommendations.

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Anyone who’s used YouTube for a long period of time knows that the platform’s comments section can be pretty nasty. Now, it seems YouTube wants to hide comments by default, hiding the section behind a button on its mobile application.
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YouTube in recent weeks has been besieged by various scandals and responded to some by strengthening hate speech rules. A new report today details one major change being discussed to better protect kids on the site.

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Making the case that great music videos are “works of art” on the level of museum paintings or sculptures, YouTube and Universal Music Group today announced a partnership to “remaster some of the most iconic music videos of all time.”

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Following I/O 2019, Google Search gained its first AR objects with 3D animals. Google ads on the web can now feature interactive 3D objects, while YouTube AR lipstick ads are another way the company is making advertising more appealing and useful.

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Google’s Search is set to get taken up a notch with the addition of video bookmarks for YouTube ‘how-to’ videos when you want guidance or help.
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With the Google Material Theme in 2018, the company introduced Google Sans as a site-optimized version of Product Sans. The YouTube Sans display font is now getting its own refresh following 10 months of work.

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One massive complaint from many fans and creators with YouTube is the odd way the system is currently handling video notifications. In a ‘Backstage at YouTube’ video, the team behind much of the system has given an update on the rollout of a fix for channel and video notifications.

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Over the past few days, YouTube has been embroiled in a controversy for turning a blind eye to harassment from a top creator. The Google company today announced a sweeping removal of “more hateful and supremacist content” on the video site.

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Google powers some of the biggest servers on the web today, so anytime there’s even a small outage it can cause trouble for users. This afternoon, several of the company’s services are down including Search, Nest, YouTube, Gmail, and more.

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Later this year, YouTube will display public subscriber counts in a more consistent manner across its official apps and clients. Instead of the full count, the Google video site is moving to abbreviate the number of users subscribed to a channel.

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Over the past year, more and more users have spotted ads appearing in Google Discover. At Google Marketing Live today, the company officially announced two types of advertising from Google Ads that can appear in the article feed to the left of Android’s homescreen.

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Advertising is what runs the show for YouTube, and much of Google in general. Apparently, the company is now testing an automated tool that lets advertisers automatically create shorter versions of their ads called the Bumper Machine.

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Compared to YouTube TV, YouTube Music hasn’t found critical acclaim or relative market success. A new report today reveals that YouTube Music has 15 million subscribers a year after launch.

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If you manage subscriptions to quite a few channels on YouTube, you probably make good use of the platform’s Watch Later playlist. Over the past few days, the Watch Later button has mysteriously disappeared from YouTube on desktop. Thankfully, it’s not an intentional, permanent change.

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