Earlier this month there were reports that YouTube for Kids is getting a new Whitelisted version and today, the company is rolling a bunch of new features that fall in line with the reports. Parents now get the ability only to show human-approved content.
YouTube is planning to release a new version of its YouTube Kids app that will only show and display videos from channels that a team of YouTube curators handpicks. The updated version will also have an option that parents can select alongside the algorithmic version.
YouTube’s dynamic player was available on iOS since December, and now it is rolling out to Android as well. The dynamic player will automatically adjust according to content in different aspect ratios.
YouTube just made it easy to go live both from your computer and phone. Earlier to go live on YouTube using an encoder, it needed few steps to do so, today, the company is making it easy just by clicking “Go live” in the YouTube header or directly visit the youtube.com/webcam.
YouTube for iOS and Android feature the picture-in-picture option for quite some time now and it looks like YouTube is aiming to bring the same to the web as well. The company is currently testing out the feature on a small subset of users.
YouTube is announcing few new features to its live stream function to improve the user experience and make it accessible to more people. This includes automatic English captions to live streams whenever professionally provided captions aren’t available.
YouTube TV is now finally available on a 4th generation Apple TV, Roku players, and Roku TVs in the US. You can stream live sports, local and national news, and must-see shows the moment that air on YouTube TV.
In the last few years, WhatsApp has been busy adding several value-added features like voice calls, video calls, end-to-end encryption, and the company is even rumored UPI-based WhatsApp payment system. Before that, WhatsApp on iOS has received a new feature, which enables users to watch YouTube video inside the WhatsApp application.
YouTube is now testing new ‘Dark Mode’ for its iOS mobile app. A screenshot with the new option in the setting page is being posted by a user on Reddit. The feature is already live for some and is enabled with YouTube app version number 13.01.4.
While we know Google deactivating YouTube on Amazon Fire TV was coming, it came four days earlier than scheduled. YouTube announced that its services would no longer be available on Fire TV from January 1st, 2018, but according to a new report Fast Company, the services are blocked already days before the promised date.
Video player on Chrome did not have many features, except for play/pause button, a timeline of the video and other controls that the website has included. However, a brand new video player has appeared in in Chrome Dev and Canary that brings YouTube-like double-tap to fast-forward/rewind controls.
Google recently announced that it is pulling out its YouTube app from Touchscreen Echo device and from Fire TV on January 1st. In the midst of a sudden move from Google, Amazon is in no mood of backing out as the company is said to be launching YouTube rival dubbed ‘Amazontube’ very soon.
YouTube is said to launch a new paid music subscription service in March 2018 according to sources of Bloomberg. YouTube is aiming to directly compete with rivals like Apple and Spotify which are again growing gradually after two decades of downfall.
YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki in a blog post today has announced that the company is expanding the teams that moderate the content that is on the platform as the company believes that human judgment is critical to making contextualized decisions on content.
YouTube today has announced that it is expanding its community which was under testing for over a year with few content creators with polls, pictures, text, GIFs, and more. It has expanded the Community to creators with over 10,000 subscribers.
