News & Reviews:   YouTube

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. 

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.

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.

If you watch YouTube regularly, you may have noticed YouTubers putting hashtags in the YouTube video description. Why do they bother putting hashtags? And what was the point? Well, like Twitter and Instagram, the hashtags help you to find certain topics and Google just rolled out the feature.

These days, every platform wants to add a shopping feature. Instagram added a Shop tab last year before WhatsApp started allowing people to sell things directly through its app. Both Facebook isn't the only corporation that wants to sell you stuff, Google wants to do it too with YouTube.

During Samsung’s First Look 2021, Samsung unveiled many new technologies to improve accessibility as well as various ways to be more eco-friendly this year. We can expect everything that was announced during the aforementioned live stream to be found on various Samsung products such as Smart TVs, and more in the near future.

Recently, short-form video contents are becoming a trending style that creators and users will look up to when they are browsing on each social media platform especially on TikTok and Instagram. Today, Google is reported on testing a new mobile search feature that would surface TikTok and Instagram videos in their own dedicated carousel. 

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sure been busy these days. Last week, it accused Facebook of running a monopoly and demanded the sale of Instagram and WhatsApp. Now, the organisation has placed nine tech companies under investigation.

After Facebook facing issues with some of its platforms not responding last week, it looks like Google is the next to have problems as some of its services are currently down including YouTube, Google Drive, Google Assistant, and more.

It's not a secret that millions of Malaysians watched a ton of YouTube videos during the pandemic. From home workouts to cooking, as well as comedy skits on coping with the lockdown, YouTube has gathered the statistics and released the Top Trending Videos in Malaysia.