News & Reviews:   YouTube

Sailor Moon is one of the OG anime series and how can we forget that! If you want to watch the series now, some of you may find it hard to look for the source (at least legally) nowadays. The series is currently available on HULU, which is a streaming service that is not available in our country yet. However, the good news is here! The official YouTube channel of Sailor Moon will be starting to upload the series onto the platform starting from 24 April.

Google recently introduced a new tab in the Youtube Music app called “Explore” which lets the user find new music based on your listening history on the app. Furthermore, Google split the Explore tab into several sub-sections including “Chill”, “Commute”, “Focus”, and more which lets you determine the mood of the music you are listening to.

Have y’all noticed a few changes that have been made to your YouTube app recently? It looks like YouTube has been making changes here and there through app updates to bring better experiences for the users. From the user interface to new features, the popular video-sharing platform has revealed a few things that we might see on the app, which includes a feature called video chapters.

Yesterday, we found out that there are people crazy enough to burn down some 5G transmitter towers in the UK because of a silly conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory, which was started by an influencer (or more like influenza lol) managed to convince some people that the COVID-19 is somehow linked to the 5G signal strength, thus weakening our body immune system. In response to that, YouTube have decided to remove all video that links to that conspiracy theory.

YouTube has been around for a long time and has long dominated the video content market. But when TikTok showed up, it changed the dynamics of the game and people started to flock to the platform. Well, it looks like YouTube is ready to take the fight to TikTok with the creation of its version of short-form videos called Shorts.

When you're stuck at home staring at the four walls, sometimes a little bit of music is just what you need. YouTube Music is just in time with something new too, with an update being rolled out to add built-in lyrics to the app. Note that the update isn't available to every region yet, as it seems that we don't have it yet here in Malaysia.

As many of you may have noticed, but YouTube have officially come forward to announce that their video quality setting has been lowered. We know, it's annoying to see such inferior resolution but it will only be temporarily for 30 days. Also, this is so that the servers can keep up with everyone staying at home binge-watching YouTube videos.

This is a time for us to slow down our pace in life with the movement control order being implemented. While staying home, many have gotten chances to do things that never get to finish back then. However, staying home doesn’t mean that we’re cutting off our connections with the outside world. To keep that connection, the Internet is so important in preventing us from becoming ‘cavemen’. Unfortunately, it seems like the Internet is not capable of fitting so many people at one time, so YouTube and Netflix were asked to keep their streaming quality low in Europe.

Today, we had the opportunity to sit down with Google Malaysia and they shared with us some interesting insights on how Malaysians are using Google. In this year's Year in Search Insights for Brands report, there are five new trends that Malaysians are showing through the search engine - Convenience, More informed, Ecommerce growth outside of cities, Local content demand, and more conscious towards the environment.

The coronavirus outbreak has now penetrated even more countries out of China recently which does not just rise the health concern but fake news is also spreading out rapidly. Today, Google has seemed to be hiding all the apps that are related to the coronavirus.