Category: YouTube TV
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YouTube Shorts Averages 70 Billion Daily Views
YouTube’s take on TikTok is its own beast. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed that YouTube Shorts, its short-form video format that apes the experience of TikTok, is averaging 70 billion daily views. The videos are watched by an average of 2 billion signed-in users each month, he added. The performance of shorts has helped drive…
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YouTube is Developing AI to Let You Sing Exactly Like Your Favorite Musician
YouTube is reportedly developing a new artificial intelligence feature to make you sound like your favorite artists. The AI voice modifier works differently than a voice enhancer, which can auto-tune a singer to keep them in tune while sounding like themselves. YouTube’s feature, however, makes users sound nearly identical to the real deal, which has…
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A YouTube Revolt? Studio Pulls Popular ‘Red vs. Blue’ Series From Platform Over Lack of Revenue
Rooster Teeth, a studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, took two of its most popular animated shows off YouTube and put them up on its own site, taking a shot at the massive streaming platform for its system of paying creators. The gaming and comedy entertainment group says YouTube doesn’t generate enough ad revenue per…
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YouTube Says Personalizing NFL Sunday Ticket Multiview Games is ‘Technically’ Very Hard
There’s been a lot of excitement for the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package coming to YouTube TV, with one of the key features being “Mulitview,” which is a feed of four simultaneous games in a single screen. But one request that has come up early and often is to get the ability to choose the games…
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YouTube TV Glitch Causing Unskippable Ads on Recorded Programs Returns
A bug that is forcing unskippable ads into YouTube TV’s recorded programs seems to have made a return. A number of users on YouTube TV’s Reddit thread have complained the shows and movies they’ve recorded to their library get served up as a video on demand — complete with ads that they can’t fast forward…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Ditching YouTube As He Tries to Make X a YouTube Competitor
SpaceX recently broke the record for the most launches in a single year and now appears to be breaking away from YouTube. This comes as Elon Musk has been working to make X a competitor to YouTube. The latest Falcon 9 launch this weekend was absent from its typical spot on SpaceX’s YouTube channel, with…
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YouTube TV, Hulu, SlingTV and Fubo Don’t Need to Strike Deals With Local NBC, ABC, CBS Stations, Lawmakers Say
There’s an ongoing debate over whether live TV streaming providers like YouTube TV and SlingTV need to fall under the same legislation that forces cable and satellite TV providers to strike licensing deals with local stations, and if the Federal Communications Commission needs to make these changes. Two House Republicans are sending a message to…
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YouTube Now Offers a Way to Stop Video Recommendations
Do you love YouTube but are frustrated with endless video suggestions? YouTube now allows you to watch videos without the accompanying recommendations. YouTube keeps users entertained by recommending relatable content to the videos they watch. Yesterday, YouTube introduced a setting to eliminate recommendations for users who want to opt out. Users with a limited prior…
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Everything You Need to Know About the NFL’s $6 Billion Sunday Ticket Class-Action Lawsuit
In September, the NFL is set to hand over its prized Sunday Ticket package of weekly football games to Google’s subscription YouTube service, a monumental change that signifies how far cord cutting and streaming video have come. But in the background of such a significant change is a lawsuit that has been following the NFL…
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YouTube Is Adding Four New Feature For Premium Members
YouTube subscribers who prefer watching in the fast lane are in for a treat. YouTube is trying out a new feature for YouTube Premium members. The new feature lets subscribers skip a series of screen taps to get to the settings gear and adjust the speed. Now, all you need to do is press the…