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Former YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki dies of lung cancer
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August 10, 2024
YouTube makes another controversial move against ad-blockers
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April 17, 2024
YouTube Now Has 100M Premium and Music Subscribers
In case you needed a reminder that making significant money out of social media subscriptions is hard, YouTube has today announced that YouTube Premium and Music has now surpassed 100 million subscribers, 8 years after its initial launch. Which is a huge achievement, no doubt. But still, at 2 billion total active YouTube users, that
February 1, 2024
YouTube TV listened to sports fans, and it’s fixing multiview’s biggest problem
Since its launch last spring, YouTube TV’s multiview functionality has been a huge quality-of-life improvement for sports fans. You can use it to watch multiple games concurrently without making space for extra TVs — but until now, you could only watch the predetermined sets of games that YouTube thinks would appeal to most viewers. An
January 30, 2024
TikTok goes full YouTube
Vertical video platform TikTok wants users to turn their phones around and start shooting horizontal videos — long ones, too.TikTok appears to be incentivizing creators to start posting horizontal videos that are more than a minute long, according to a prompt seen by creators @candicedchap and @kenlyealtumbiz. The platform says it will “boost” these videos within
January 29, 2024
YouTube is testing views and likes that update in real-time… but why?
As if the unskippable ads that made so many people use adblockers with YouTube aren’t enough of a nuisance, Google might have found another way to ruin the free YouTube experience. The company is adding live counters for YouTube views and likes that update in real-time. Who in their right mind would want that to
December 5, 2023
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Fans were furious that YouTube TV and NFL Sunday Ticket had serious issues during Week 8
When the exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket switched from Directv to YouTube TV ahead of the 2023 season, there was reasonable concern about how a streaming service would hold up compared to a linear provider. And through the first seven weeks of the season, YouTube TV had exceeded expectations. Streaming delays were minimized, the
October 29, 2023
YouTube rolling out upgraded 1080p Premium on the web, some TV devices
YouTube has confirmed that its new 1080p Premium tier is now rolling out to users on the desktop web client. “1080p Premium” was first announced earlier this year and made its debut on iOS devices. The new tier is exclusive to paying Premium subscribers and works on many videos by upgrading the bitrate of the
August 5, 2023
YouTube Music Joins Apple Music, Tidal, and Others in Raising Its Monthly Subscription Cost to $10.99
A YouTube Music price increase has officially been implemented in the U.S. Photo Credit: Rubaitul AzadYouTube Music has officially joined Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, and Amazon Music – but not Spotify – in raising its subscription price to $10.99 per month in the United States. The Google subsidiary just recently implemented the YouTube Music price
July 20, 2023