YouTube had discontinued its annotations editor on May 2nd, 2017, and now it will also stop showing any existing annotations on January 15th, 2019. The company says the adoption of end screens and cards has grown, the use of annotations has decreased by over 70%. Continue reading “YouTube to shutdown pop-up annotations on January 15th”
YouTube has announced that it is planning on introducing two back-to-back skippable ads which it is calling “Ad-pods.” This will let you watch a longer video without interruptions. Currently, YouTube shows an ad at the start and while you’re in the middle of watching a video. Continue reading “YouTube testing ‘Ad-pods’ two back-to-back ads so you can watch videos without interruption”
Reliance Jio today announced that YouTube app is finally available on JioStore, meaning it will be available to install on JioPhone 2 and JioPhone 1. The app has been built specially for Jio KaiOS, a web-based operating system designed for JioPhone so that its users get the best experience. Continue reading “After WhatsApp, YouTube finally arrives for JioPhone”
YouTube back in 2015 has launched YouTube Gaming, a standalone app for gamers where it tested new features like Game Pages, Super Chat, dark theme, and Channel Memberships. Today, the company has launched a new Gaming destination; ‘youtube.com/gaming’ to give gamers a home on YouTube. Continue reading “YouTube merges Gaming destination to main site; to shut down standalone Gaming app in March 2019”
YouTube today is introducing two new features to its YouTube Kids app including the parents approved content where it brings the ability for parents to handpick every video and channel available to their child in the app.
Continue reading “YouTube Kids gets parents approved content, “Older” version experience for tweens”
Update – August 30: A month after testing on iOS, YouTube has announced that the new Explore tab is now being tested on Android. It recently expanded to 2% of iOS users. The company might release it to everyone in the coming months based on the feedback from users since this is still an experimental feature.
Continue reading “YouTube starts testing New Explore tab on iOS [Update: Being tested on Android]”
A couple of months back, YouTube announced new tools at the Google I/O in order to help the user to understand their usage pattern. From now, users can find all the YouTube tools in one place, alongside your personal time watched profile. Continue reading “YouTube rolls out Digital Wellbeing tools to track time spent watching videos”
At the Samsung event yesterday, Samsung mentioned that the new Galaxy Note 9 phablet is a “YouTube Signature Device” for 2019. This is YouTube’s brand new initiative that suggests the best phones that offer superior YouTube watching experience. The company calls it “signature devices,” for watching YouTube. Continue reading “YouTube Signature Device report recommends phones for best video playback experience”
YouTube is said to be experimenting with new swipe-based gesture navigation and this would make the navigating between videos in the YouTube app a whole lot easier. You can slide with your finger to swipe between videos. Continue reading “YouTube experimenting new swipe-based gesture navigation on its app”
Snapchat’s Stories now feels like one great feature as everyone now wants to jump on it. It was Instagram who directly ripped off the feature and later was added to Facebook and Messenger, now it is YouTube who wants in. The feature on YouTube was first spotted a while ago and it looks exactly like the one we are using on Instagram. Continue reading “YouTube said to be testing Instagram-like Stories”
Update – July 30, 2018: Even though the company said that Dark Theme is coming to Android soon, a Reddit users has received the feature, so we can expect it to roll out for Android in the coming weeks.
YouTube today has announced it is pushing an update to the YouTube video player on the desktop. The player now automatically adapts to provide the best viewing experience based on the video’s size and your screen size. After Android and iOS, this update is now coming to the desktop. Continue reading “YouTube web player updated to adapt to different aspect ratios”
YouTube TV introduced a picture-in-picture mode with Android 8.0 Oreo back in November and has also extended to its Premium and Music services. The videos are minimised to a corner to let you keep watching while browsing around other apps. However, it now seems to be rolling out to non-paying YouTube users. Continue reading “YouTube picture-in-picture will be available to all Android users”
YouTube at the VidCon 2018 online video conference in California has introduced a handful of new monetization and engagement features for creators. The channel memberships is same as one of existing service that the company has been testing for a while; sponsorships. Continue reading “YouTube brings more monetisation options through channel memberships, merchandise, and premieres”
PayPal and Google already work together to allow users to pay via PayPal in-store, online and in-app with Google Pay and on Chrome mobile web at millions of online merchants using their PayPal accounts. Today both the companies are extending their partnership across Google ecosystem. Continue reading “PayPal is now integrated as payment solution within Gmail, YouTube, Google Pay and Google Store”
