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Ahead of the Super Bowl in January, Google announced that YouTube TV was available in 98% of U.S. households. Two months later, users in every television market across the country can subscribe to YouTube’s cord-cutting service.

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YouTube has created what it calls its “first-ever experiential house” in New York City. This YouTube House pop-up shows off the latest TV and Music subscriptions, and other aspects of the video service.

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Over the past few years, YouTube has experimented with producing TV shows for its premium customers with varying levels of success. Now, following a report from last year which claimed those shows would end up available for free, it looks like YouTube is axing some of its existing series and no longer accepting pitches for new programs.

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YouTube has made it clear for quite some time that it has a focus on its mobile users, and that’s for good reason. According to a new report, YouTube makes up just shy of 40% of all downstream mobile web traffic in the world.

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YouTube says that in the hours after the terrorist attack in New Zealand, people were uploading copies of the shooter’s live-streamed video footage at the rate of one copy every second.

Facebook said that it automatically blocked 1.2 million copies at the point of upload, and removed another 300,000 copies …

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YouTube and Facebook are working to ensure the removal of all copies of head-mounted camera footage apparently live-streamed by the gunman in two mass shootings in New Zealand.

Forty-nine people were killed, and at least 20 more wounded, in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand …

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Passion can drive people to do some pretty crazy things, and that definitely seems to be the case with one YouTuber from Maine. Kyle Long was apparently arrested outside of Google’s headquarters in Mountain View for trying to “settle his beef” with the company regarding his YouTube channel which he believed the company had shut down.

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If you’re experiencing issues accessing some of Google’s most popular services this evening, it’s not just you. Google Drive, YouTube, and Gmail are all currently down or behaving abnormally for many user, and it’s unclear when a fix will be deployed.

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Following Spotify and Samsung expanding their music partnership this morning, Google will give four months of YouTube Premium to Galaxy S10 owners. This deal will also be extended to the Galaxy Fold in April, while other Samsung devices will benefit from a similar offer until next year.

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Misinformation is all over the web, and YouTube is working to stop the spread. After announcing that it wouldn’t recommend videos that spread misinformation, the platform is building new a new fact-check panel into YouTube video search.

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Since last year, Google has been a vocal opponent of the European Union’s Copyright Directive. While the company recognizes the need for legal modernization, it argues that there are unintended consequences for the publishers and other parties that the EU is trying to help. Google yesterday shared its response to the finalized text ahead of a broader vote.

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Over the past year, Google has worked to heavily promote YouTube TV through ad campaigns, usually during major sporting events. In July, it was rumored that the cord-cutting service had nearly 800,000 subscribers, with the latest figure today pegging it at over 1 million.

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Just a week after some of its major advertising partners pulled ads from the platform, YouTube has just announced that it will be disabling comments on all videos featuring minors. This comes as a response to the discovery that some users were using the comments section of videos featuring children as a sort of “soft-core pedophilia ring.”

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Over the past few weeks, the YouTube community has been finding that their giveaway videos have been flagged seemingly for no good reason. Now, YouTube is coming out to clarify that, no, giveaways aren’t being banned from the platform, but inflated engagement metrics are.

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YouTube is the biggest place on the web to share videos you’ve created, and millions of people do so every single day. To prevent abuse, though, YouTube has a strikes system in place that takes down content that violates the Community Guidelines. In some cases, though, that system has been taken advantage of or misunderstood, and today YouTube is revising its strikes system in a huge way to benefit creators.

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Over the weekend, Google presented a white paper at the Munich Security Conference detailing how it fights disinformation across its largest services. This includes efforts covering Google Search, News, and YouTube, as well as advertising platforms.

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There is now some uncertainty about the future of Google News in Europe after the European Union finalized its controversial new copyright legislation.

Google had previously showed how dramatically its search results could be affected, and warned that it may shut down the service in Europe …

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