YouTube has recently announced that it will offering monetisation for creators who publish Shorts. YouTube will be giving 45% of the revenue generated. Up until now, YouTube has only offered monetisation on longer form videos. YouTube will be splitting the revenue with creators, regardless if they use music or not. YouTube has said the changes will come into effect starting “early next year” and YouTube is likely hoping that the revenue […]
YouTube announced YouTube Go back in 2017, when it was released to India and Indonesia as a light weight version of the main desktop and mobile app versions. It was designed to run better on devices with less processing power, such as entry level laptops and smartphones. It also had an easy way to control how much data would be used, useful for expensive plans or slow carrier networks. In […]
YouTube is going to start hiding the dislike counts on videos by default soon, a decision the company came to after an experiment which was successful, as it happens. Going forward, video creators will be able to see how many dislikes a video got, but not the general viewing public, a move to help combat ongoing dislike campaigns. Dislike campaigns affect new and small creators out there, YouTube said and […]
Google is testing out a new cheaper plan for YouTube Premium, with a Lite option. YouTube Premium currently costs £11.99 in the UK, $11.99 in the US and €11.99 in the rest of Europe and gets you advert free video viewing on all platforms, access to YouTube Music, background playback and the ability to download videos. However, there seems to be a subset of users who want to just watch […]
YouTube will be planning on removing the dislike counter on the bottom of YouTube videos in the near future, as the company begins testing new interface designs. YouTube has shared a concept of that the new interface could look like, which simply removes the number of dislikes a video has, while the thumbs down button still remains – only YouTube creators will be able to see the amount of dislikes […]
In the last couple of days, Google has begun to roll out a new redesigned YouTube app on newer Apple TV models, the new update brings the tvOS app up to spec with other versions of the YouTube app on other platforms. The new look has been available on Google TV for the best part of year at this stage. The new update adds a more modern design, with a […]
Support for a numbers of apps on the Apple TV 3rd generation have been pulled recently, including HBO and MLB but now as of this week, the official YouTube app for the third generation model has been removed. The second generation Apple TV lost access to YouTube back in 2015. However despite this, AirPlay from a a iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac is still supported. Apple is expected to […]
On the last gen Xbox One S and One X, YouTube in HDR is now supported, this also adds support for the new Xbox models, if you have managed to snag one. This isn’t the first time any HDR content has been supported on the Xbox One, for a long time Netflix and Prime Video have supported. YouTube in HDR on Xbox is something that has been talked about by […]
This morning, a handful of Google’s services including YouTube, Google Analytics and Gmail are down and the outage looks to be affecting everyone worldwide. No information from Google has yet been provided, but we’ll be sure to update this post once the services have restored. Update 12:26 BST: It seems to be Google’s Authentication servers causing the issue, according to Rene Ritchie on Twitter, if you log out you can visit YouTube […]
YouTube itself has supported the 8K resolution about five years ago and we’re now starting to see some 8K TV hit the market, and to meet that demand, YouTube has updated its app on Android TV to support 8K, up until now standard Android TV boxes have been capped at a maximum of 4K. The new version is 2.12.08 and according to Android Police, it is rolling out slowly. Android 10 is […]
