YouTube has announced a huge milestone. The Google owned popular video sharing service has revealed that people are now watching 1 billion hours of YouTube content every single day.
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YouTube’s most irritating 30-seconds unskippable ad format will go away next year. Google told the Campaign in a statement that it will kill this ad format in 2018. The video service will instead introduce more frequent six-second unskippable ads starting next year.
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YouTube has introducing a new tool dubbed as Super Chat that lets viewers pay to pin comments during a live stream. A Super Chat is basically a highlighted message in the chat stream that stands out from the crowd and helps to attract creator’s attention. These Super Chats remain pinned to the top of chat for up to 5 hours, giving more airtime for your messages. Continue reading “YouTube Super Chat lets users pay to pin comments to live streams”
YouTube is adding a new feature for its users in India. The video service will now show more local language content on Home and Trending. YouTube will automatically identify your preferred regional languages based on your watch history. It will support Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu languages.
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YouTube has added support 4K live streaming. With the latest update, users will now be able to stream standard and 360-degree video content in 4K. Continue reading “YouTube adds 4K live streaming support”
YouTube was rumored to bring support for HDR video since the beginning of this year. The video app from Google has now officially added support for HDR videos for improved video quality. Continue reading “YouTube adds HDR video support”
YouTube has added new tools and features for video creators that offers better control and management of comments.
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With aim at helping creators connect with viewers, YouTube has launched its own social network called as Community. The Community feature will come in form of a tab to YouTube. Continue reading “YouTube launches own social network called as Community”
At the Vidcon event in California, YouTube announced plans to bring live streaming right into the main Youtube mobile app which means that the world’s largest video site will now take on FaceBook Live and Periscope. You need to just tap the capture button within the app, select a thumbnail, pick a title and you would go live.
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YouTube has rolled out Smart Offline feature in India that lets mobile users take advantage of cheaper mobile data rates at night. A number of telecom operators offer affordable night packs in the country.
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Motorola on Youtube added a video advertisement teasing its popular veteran Moto RAZR V3 with a date of June 9, 2016. Continue reading “Lenovo-Motorola teases RAZR V3 flip phone from past for June 9 launch”
YouTube is working on a standalone virtual reality app for its recently announced virtual reality platform Daydream. The app comes with similar features like voice search, discovery, playlists and more.
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Google had added VR video support for YouTube’s Android app in November last year. Now, the Google Cardboard support is expanding to YouTube’s iOS app as well.
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YouTube has secretly launched a new in-app messenger for small group of users. The instant messaging service is aimed at making it easier for users to share videos.
Google is testing a new Material Design makeover for YouTube on the Web. The refreshed UI is being currently tested on small group of users.
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