YouTube’s Premiere feature has become quite a successful for creators, artists, and publishers on the platform since its launch. They are now introducing three new features to improve the experience, namely Live Redirect, Trailers, and Countdown Themes.
YouTube is testing two new features that are aimed at helping creators and video uploaders spend less time when editing their videos. The first feature is an automatic video chapter creator and the second is a simple timestamp button, both of which are being tested right now with a small set of people.
YouTube is rolling out a new update to its mobile app for both iOS and Android, adding multiple new features such as Video Chapters, a better video player with more accessible controls and gestures, and new suggested actions.
Short-form video consumption has sky rocketed in the last few months with apps like TikTok and Instagram Reels being extremely popular. Now, YouTube wants a piece of that pie as they have introduced their own 15- second video experience on their platform called YouTube Shorts.
In the world of music streaming services, Google currently offers two services, the older Google Play Music and the newer YouTube Music. Over the last few months, Google has been trying push Google Play Music subscribers over to YouTube Music, and now, Google has announced that YouTube Music will completely replace Google Play Music by … Continue reading “Google to end Google Play Music in favour of YouTube Music by December 2020”
Apple has released tvOS 14, the next major tvOS update at the WWDC 2020. This brings multi-user support in games and offer gamers a wider range of controllers and input device options. New SwiftUI APIs allow developers to enhance search features and show video from HomeKit cameras in apps. There is also Picture-in-Picture and system-provided … Continue reading “Apple tvOS 14 brings Airpods Audio Sharing, Picture-in-Picture, YouTube 4K support and more”
YouTube advertising is one of the many popular ways used by brands to advertise their products online and since more people are online now, using the right avenue for advertising has become crucial. To help them, YouTube has introduced a number of solutions that can make video ads more shoppable, use automation to drive conversions, … Continue reading “YouTube introduces new direct response tools to make video ads more shoppable”
In the last two months, Google has noticed a spike in searches related to “insomnia” and “can’t sleep” and this has prompted them to introduce a few tools to help users better use their smartphones to improve sleeping habits. These tools include a Bedtime feature for Digital Wellbeing, a Bedtime tab for the Clock app, … Continue reading “Google adds Bedtime tools to Digital Wellbeing, Clock app, YouTube and Family Link”
YouTube has finally added a very important feature for both creators and viewers called Video Chapters. Creators will now be able to add timestamps to their video’s description, creating clickable chapters in the progress bar, with which viewers can skip and scrub through videos quickly.
Google’s music streaming services have been messy for the past few years with users split between Google Play Music and the newer YouTube Music. However, it looks like Google is banking on YouTube Music as they introduced a tool to easily transfer a user’s Google Play Music library, personal taste preferences and playlists over to … Continue reading “Google introduces tool to transfer Google Play Music Library to YouTube Music”
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, most launch events have been shifted to online and on similar lines, Google also cancelled its annual I/O event recently. Now, the Cupertino-based tech giant has announced that the Beta launch show of Android 11 will take place online on YouTube and has released a teaser video of the … Continue reading “Android 11 Beta Launch Show set for June 3 on YouTube”
Samsung had announced a deeper partnership with Google during its Samsung Unpacked event in February 2020. As part of this partnership, Samsung would have better integration with some of Google’s services and today they announced that a Flex-optimised version of the YouTube app will be available for the Galaxy Z Flip.
Facebook has just launched a new dedicated app for Android that is aimed at rivalling popular game streaming services like Twitch and YouTube. The app is designed to curate and focus on streamers in the community, while also focusing on casual streams of games like “Words with Friends”.
YouTube has been introducing new features to its platform lately like UPI support, Dark Mode toggle, voice search for cast, and more. On similar lines now, YouTube has made a change in the view count numbering format displayed on videos.
Google looks to be dedicated at making YouTube as its main music streaming service as it continues to push new updates to it. The latest change to the app is the removal of the “Hotlist” tab and replacing it with the “Explore” tab, aimed at improving music discovery for its users.
