05 April 2017
YouTube TV was originally announced back in February, and today it has finally gone live. It's a streaming video service that delivers live TV from major broadcast networks such as ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, alongside "popular cable networks". The...
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18 March 2017
In case anybody had any doubts in the past, we feel it is now pretty safe to historically name YouTube as the next big multimedia content revolution. Sure, "online video" might be a more technically correct and inclusive, but let's be real, with...
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18 February 2017
If you've been using YouTube for a few years now, then its hard not to notice how much it has changed and gradually morphed. Google's efforts all seem to be aimed at one goal - to position the video platform as a viable mainstream content provider,...
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04 February 2017
If you are an avid YouTube user, then chances are, you take advantage of at least a few of the platform's convenient keyboard shortcuts, like the ""J", "K" and "L" trio. But what about your power-user needs on mobile? How come you have to resort to...
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02 February 2017
Google has released an update for the iOS version of the YouTube app which brings a useful feature for Chromecast users.
Users who cast YouTube videos from their iOS device to their Chromecast, smart TVs, game consoles, etc. will now be able to...
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12 January 2017
If you watch a lot of live streams on YouTube you know that the more popular a broadcast is, the less time a comment will be visible in the chat box that's next to the video. But what if you could change that?
Well, now you can. YouTube has...
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09 November 2016
Google is getting serious about VR this year. With VR capabilities built into the latest Android release, and with its very own Daydream View VR headset becoming available tomorrow, the search giant has released a new app into the Play Store...
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08 November 2016
Google has added HDR support for YouTube. Starting today, content creators will be able to upload HDR videos to their channels and those with compatible devices will be able to watch them.
HDR or High Dynamic Range provides a wider dynamic range...
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15 August, 2016
Hangouts on Air was introduced to the internet in 2012 when it introduced a new suite of features for Hangouts. Remember, at this time, where was less than a handful of platforms or apps that offered a live streaming video platform.
There are now...
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24 June, 2016
Facebook Live and Twitter-owned Periscope are hot right now, there's no denying it. The two services allow anyone to live stream... anything, and they've been gaining in popularity recently. A lot.
And now the elephant in the room decided to step...
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10 June, 2016
YouTube Red already offers offline viewing of YouTube videos but it is more of a necessity in developing countries as data is a costlier operation. Smart Offline will let users queue videos to be scheduled to download overnight, when data costs are...
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30 May, 2016
Although you can't argue that YouTube's Android app is bad or lacking essential functionality, there oddly still are quite a few glaring omissions in it when compared to the service's website. Not huge things, mind you, rather small features here...
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12 May, 2016
It is ridiculous the amount of users that watch YouTube on a daily basis. And YouTube plans to leverage even more users with a new messaging service that will reassure viewers that they’ll never need to leave the app just to share a video.
This...
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24 March, 2016
Google is working on a competitor to Twitter's popular video streaming app, Periscope, and also the new Facebook Live that recently came out.
Called YouTube Connect, the service would pretty much be like Periscope, according to sources at...
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17 March, 2016
After Google called out T-Mobile on sneakily throttling all of YouTube’s data over T-Mobile’s towers, T-Mobile got a lot of backlash for doing so without notifying YouTube nor its customers first.
The biggest reason why YouTube raised these...
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23 February, 2016
Today, Google finally pushed out an update to the YouTube app, specifically for the iPad Pro. Since the iPad Pro’s launch, users were only able to use the YouTube app for the iPad’s resolution.
This means the iPad Pro was displaying the same...
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30 December, 2015
Remember last week when YouTube accused T-Mobile of throttling video traffic? T-Mobile’s reply: it wasn’t throttling the video traffic but simply optimizing content for mobile consumption.
The FCC will be keeping a close eye on T-Mobile with...
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10 December, 2015
YouTube has introduced a new Trending tab, that appears on the website and in the mobile apps next to your Subscriptions tab. The tab had previously appeared for some users on a trial basis but it's now permanently included.
The Trending tab...
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