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This week at SXSW, YouTube announced a new integration to its platform which would put Wikipedia excerpts below some conspiracy videos. It’s a great idea, but awkwardly, Wikipedia was never informed that this was happening…

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Today in Austin, Texas at the annual South by Southwest festival, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that Google is planning several moves over the next year to tackle misinformation on the platform. The first of this round of initiatives is called “information cues,” and basically adds links to Wikipedia articles below videos about topics that often the center of debate…

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Back in January, we spotted YouTube preparing a dark theme for its mobile apps that would match the recently revamped desktop client. Today, the video site is making the dark theme official on iOS, with an update coming soon to Android.

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It’s been rumored for quite some time that YouTube has had a new music service in the works, but details have been pretty scarce. For a while, reports and rumors pointed to a launch at SXSW. Apparently, though, that was never the intention for YouTube.

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As a result of Google and Amazon’s feud, YouTube is not available on the latter’s Echo or Fire TV devices. One area of contention is the availability of Nest smart home products and a new report today details the discussion between the two companies, and reveals possible involvement by Jeff Bezos.

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If there’s one thing Google does better than anyone else, it’s using software to make camera features better. Now, a beta feature is rolling out to a limited group of YouTube Stories users which lets creators swap out their background images with nothing more than a phone.

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After causing trouble throughout the YouTube community earlier this year, YouTube made the decision to disable ads for one of its biggest creators, Logan Paul. At the time, it was unclear how long the suspension would last, but now we’re getting the answer as Paul’s ads have returned.

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Live streaming on YouTube is getting a number of updates this morning aimed at enhancing the experience for viewers. The video site is introducing automatic captioning to live streams, while viewers will be better able to interact with content.

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YouTube has been undergoing a lot of expansion in the past couple of years with the arrival of things such as YouTube Red and YouTube TV. Now, a new report is claiming that while a third service is in development, spending on original content is being capped.

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YouTube messes with its design on Android a lot, but the Android TV app barely ever gets touched. Last year, Google brought a dramatic redesign to the app, aligning it with other platforms. Now, it seems a new design is rolling out, refining the one previously available.

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YouTube is rumored to lead Google’s revamped music streaming service. Last night, an interview with Susan Wojcicki revealed how the company sees Red as a music service that will be expanding to many more countries this year. Meanwhile, the YouTube CEO also took the time to jab at Facebook’s nascent video efforts.

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This morning, YouTube chose to temporarily demonetize creator Logan Paul due to a string of inappropriate videos were uploaded to the video platform. This afternoon, YouTube has now laid out steps it will take to stop and punish creators that upload videos that cause “widespread harm” to the community…

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At the start of this year, YouTube was at the heart of a major controversy surrounding one of the platform’s biggest names — Logan Paul. Now, a few weeks later, Paul has returned to his channel, but YouTube isn’t done taking action against him, this time disabling all revenue on his channel.

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YouTube’s 2017 was brutal on multiple fronts with the Google company already having announced several policy changes in response. The latest is related to news and government-funded YouTube channels that might not be immediately obvious to users.

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To put it nicely, 2017 was a brutal year for YouTube. After multiple incidents that lost the platform valuable advertisers, YouTube has created new automated systems to stop monetization on videos that potentially violate the site’s rules and instituted new regulations for its partner program.

For 2018, YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, has five priorities for creators…

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Over the course of 2017, YouTube launched and rolled out a more optimized version of its mobile app for developing countries. Starting today, YouTube Go is officially coming to over 130 more markets.

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