Tag: YouTube
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How to Track Santa This Christmas Eve on Roku, Fire TV, Google TV, & Apple TV
As Santa makes his rounds this Christmas, don’t leave your kids wondering when he will arrive. Instead, check out these Santa trackers, which have their satellites and radars ready to follow Santa’s sleigh across the night sky this Christmas Eve. The tradition of tracking Santa started in 1955 when a young child trying to reach…
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YouTube Announces Plans to Stop AI-Generated Election Misinformation & Plans to Promote “High-Quality Election Content”
2024 marks a presidential election year in the United States and now YouTube has announced plans to crack down on AI-generated election misinformation and how they will stop foreign interference in elections. YouTube also announced it will be working to promote what it considers to be high-quality election content. “Challenges posed by generative AI have…
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The Google Play Movies & TV App Will Be Gone in January. Here’s Where To Find the Content You Purchased
Google will retire the remaining parts of its Google Play Movies & TV app for Android TV, select cable boxes, and the Google Play website on January 17, 2024. As part of its plan to create a more integrated user experience, the tech giant shut down the Google Play Movies & TV app on October…
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YouTube Makes it Harder to See if Your Favorite Creator is Making Money
YouTube removed a snippet of code that disclosed whether a channel receives ad revenue and subscription payouts, according to Wired. The code showed which creators benefit most from the platform’s Partner Program, which YouTube stealthily eliminated around November 17. The code was added sometime in June 2021 and included a flag showing “true” or “false”…
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YouTube Will Start Showing Fewer Ads, but There’s a Catch
YouTube is changing up how it shows ads in videos. The video-sharing app will now group ads together for longer ad breaks, instead of multiple short ad breaks during your video. In addition, viewers will see a countdown of how much time is left in the ad break instead of the number of ads they’ll…
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YouTube is Offering More Free Movies and TV Show
A YouTube TV membership has a lot to offer, but for those who want to cut back on paid streaming subscriptions, YouTube’s list of free movies and TV series is worth checking out as it has slowly been growing. YouTube adds new free movies and TV shows every month, which vary depending on which country…
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The Price of YouTube Premium Is Going Up on Grandfathered Plans By As Much as $6 a Month
Back in July, YouTube quietly raised the price of YouTube Premium by $2 a month to $13.99 or an annual subscription of $139.99. At the time, select YouTube Premium subscribers were grandfathered into that new place, but now the will also be hit with a price hike in January, according to a report from 9to5Google.…
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Super Bowl Ads on YouTube Reached 20% More Viewers Than Traditional TV
The Kansas City Chiefs weren’t the only winners at this year’s Super Bowl. Advertisers got a big boost in viewership by putting their commercials on YouTube Connected TV, or YouTube CTV, as well as linear TV. According to media measurement company Comscore, YouTube reached 88% of adults aged 18 to 49 with a Super Bowl…
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YouTube Will Now Suggest Videos to You Based On Its Color
Looking for something new on YouTube? Not sure what you want to watch? Now, YouTube will recommend videos to you based on the color of the thumbnail. Recently YouTube started adding the ability to select the color and see videos from channels you follow that had thumbnails with that color in them. This maybe one…
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YouTube Is Testing Adding a Splash of Color to Your History and Playlist Tabs on Google TV
YouTube is testing out a colorful new design for the playlist and watch history sections of its app for Google and Android TVs. “We are rolling out a new layout to the Library on TVs for all YouTube users. This is part of our modernization efforts announced earlier this year,” a YouTube spokesperson confirmed to…