News & Reviews: YouTube
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May 12, 2021
If you're a content creator, you may have heard of YouTube Shorts, a new short-form video feature. Well, YouTube wants to convince content creators to get on the beta and use the feature. So it has come up with a simple motivator - money.
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May 06, 2021
For many countries like Malaysia, there is a good amount of users preferring to watch content in their native tongue. Well, looks like YouTube is working on that and there's a new translation experiment being conducted as we speak.
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May 06, 2021
As short-form videos became popular thanks to TikTok, other companies have been looking to copy the concept. In fact, Google launched the YouTube Shorts beta in India last year. But the initial beta tests are over and the company is officially launching the new feature.
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May 06, 2021
Yesterday, we reported that Donald Trump is planning to launch his own social media platform due to the result of being banned by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. However, the Facebook Oversight Board did say they were evaluating his case and here's the latest verdict.
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May 05, 2021
If you have been following news about Donald Trump, you would know that he got banned by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for breaking their policy. It's now May and these tech brands aren't going to even consider allowing him back, which is why Mr Trump here has decided to set up his own social network website.
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Apr 07, 2021
YouTube recently released a blog post regarding a new metric called the Violative View Rate, which hints that more than 83 million videos, as well as up to 7 billion comments, have been removed for violative content. Not only that, but the blog also hinted that YouTube’s machine learning algorithm has managed to automatically flag up to 94% of the violative content while the remaining was done manually.
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Apr 05, 2021
Some of you probably hook your Nintendo Switch to a large TV regularly. But have you ever played on a giant version of the console? A YouTuber decided to do just that and showed how it could be done on YouTube.
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Mar 10, 2021
This morning, we noticed that some of our Malaysian media content creator friends receiving an email from YouTube. It appears that the company will begin deducting US taxes from June 2021 from payments to creators outside of the country. How much? According to the email, it may go up to 24% of the creator's total earnings worldwide.
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Feb 20, 2021
If you bought a phone with a 4K screen, like the Sony Xperia 1 II, then you're going to get more use out of it. YouTube has had 4K videos for quite some time, but HDR was never available on mobile devices. However, it looks like that's about to change with an update for Android.
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Jan 30, 2021
Since YouTube is such a widely used platform, it only stands to reason that it continues to add useful features. The one that some may have wanted for a long time would be video clipping, which Twitch has had for years. Good thing YouTube is testing that now.
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