Comment spam on YouTube is a problem that has plagued the platform for many years now. In an effort to control the spam, YouTube has made 3 changes that will try protect protect viewers and creators, and also make it harder to impersonate creators.
YouTube has launched a new referral program to help spread the word about its YouTube Premium subscription. With this new referral program, an existing Premium subscriber can invite non-premium users to try 3 months of YouTube Premium for Rs. 10/US $0.99 instead of paying Rs.129/month or US$ 11.99. This appears to be a very good … Continue reading “Refer and get up to 12 months free YouTube Premium; Friends get 3 months YouTube Premium for Rs. 10”
In recent times, Google has been very keen on optimizing the Android interface for tablets due to the extensive growth of the tablet market. Continuing its work, YouTube Music is getting a few changes in the ‘album view’ section of the app. Few weeks back, the firm updated the UI of playlist section, making it … Continue reading “YouTube Music is getting revamped UI for tablets”
Xiaomi has announced that it has tied up with YouTube to offer extended free trials of YouTube Premium to eligible users on select current devices. The company said that eligible customers will receive up to three months of YouTube Premium free of charge.
YouTube has introduced a new feature that will help users discover the most popular portions of a video they’re viewing, as well as a number of other updates to its video player. According to the company, it will be adding a graph that will allow users to quickly identify and watch the most replayed segments … Continue reading “YouTube rolls out most replayed parts, single loop and more”
With the help of Shorts, YouTube has been taking on TikTok. The company has been consistently adding new and creative features to attract creators. Now it has unveiled Green Screen, the latest option to remix with other eligible Shorts videos. The gradual rollout of the Green Screen feature has already started on the iOS YouTube … Continue reading “YouTube Shorts gets Green Screen Remix feature”
As promised last year, YouTube is finally launching a beta version of the Channel Memberships Gifting feature. The Memberships Gifting option allows channel members to buy a predetermined number of channel memberships [5, 10, 20] in a single purchase, which YouTube will “gift” to other viewers in live stream. It is only available for viewers … Continue reading “YouTube Channel Memberships Gifting rolling out in beta”
YouTube Go will be closed down permanently in August. The YouTube team has announced that it is discontinuing the lightweight alternative to its main app, primarily because it has become obsolete over time.
YouTube Shorts creators will now be able to use video clips from billions of YouTube clips in new shorts. Earlier, creators of YouTube Shorts could only splice short audio clips from other videos on the platform. Users will be able to clip 1- to 5-second portions from eligible long-form videos, as well as “Shorts” to … Continue reading “YouTube Shorts arrives for tablets, gets new features”
About 4 years after YouTube TV made its debut in 2017, a notification for the new 4K add-on in June 2021 also revealed that 5.1 Dolby audio support would be available soon. Nevertheless, only “select devices” will indeed be supported at first, which turned out to be a limited set of smart TVs from Samsung, … Continue reading “YouTube TV is testing 5.1 surround sound support to more streaming boxes”
YouTube has begun testing a new feature that allows users to express reactions during certain points in a video. Similar in style to Facebook Live and Twitch, each video’s comment section will have a separate reaction pane that will display emoji reactions by the time.
YouTube announced today that it has started rolling out health source information panels and health content shelves features in India, with the goal of providing users with reliable sources for health-related information in the nation.
The most popular YouTube Vanced app is set to be discontinued in the coming days, as the project’s creators have said. This news comes as a surprise to many people, as the app offered a wealth of capabilities that were only available with a YouTube premium subscription at no cost.
Yesterday, Samsung introduced their flagship Galaxy S22 series and the Galaxy Tab S8 series during their Unpacked event. During it, Samsung introduced a number of new software features that will first roll out to the Galaxy S22 series, including the ability to live share your display in Google Duo, integrated Voice Access capabilities and more.
YouTube has rolled out a new video player UI for its Android app that now lets you like, dislike, comment, add to playlist and share when you are watching a video in the full screen mode. The autoplay, casting and closed captions option on the top remain the same, but the three-dot overflow button has … Continue reading “YouTube for Android gets a new fullscreen video player UI”
