News & Reviews: YouTube
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Sep 14, 2022
Just when you thought YouTube is done with two unskippable ads for the video platform, it seems that the company is bumping up to five for a foreseeable future. Do note that nothing is final as YouTube just recently started testing five unskippable ads before the video starts playing.
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Sep 09, 2022
YouTube is introducing a slew of new products that cater for education and learning on the platform which includes a new ad-free video player as well as tools specific for educational content creators. In a blog post yesterday, YouTube announced the YouTube Player for Education, a new embedded player that shows content on commonly used education apps without ads, external links or recommendations.
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Aug 31, 2022
Facebook will officially shut down its Gaming app on 28 October 2022 after failing to compete with Amazon’s Twitch in the live game streaming market. In case you’re not familiar, the Facebook Gaming app lets users watch and play video games on demand.
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Aug 30, 2022
If you regularly watch YouTube and don’t have an ad-blocker turned on, then it’s very likely that you’ve been bombarded with annoying ads by a company called OctaFX offering investment and financial services. Well, as it turns out, OctaFX's aforementioned services and operation were never authorised or approved by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
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Aug 05, 2022
Zoom in on YouTube videos will soon not be a complicated process anymore. The platform has introduced a feature called 'Pinch to zoom' for its Premium users, which allows you to zoom into the videos and pan around to look at different parts of them, both in portrait or full-screen landscape view.
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Jul 31, 2022
Many people love to watch videos online, and short-form video is probably the most popular format these days. Besides the highly popular TikTok, YouTube Shorts has also gained a substantial userbase of about 1.5 billion users. As such, it makes sense to add a new feature to help make Shorts.
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Jul 13, 2022
By now, most of you know about the bizarre LoFi Girl livestream video incident. For the uninitiated, the 'lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to' has been taken down due to a copyright strike by a local music production company - FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia. YouTube has rectified the issue and the LoFi Girl's video is now back online.
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Jul 12, 2022
Finally, the Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode for YouTube will soon be available for all iOS users across the globe. Since April, we had already heard the news about the feature making its way to global iOS users, but it never happened until now.
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Jul 12, 2022
One of the most popular and iconic music streams on YouTube, Lofi Girl’s lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to suddenly disappeared from the platform since two days ago due to a copyright strike from Malaysian-based music company, FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia. Understandably, the incident caused uproar among fans of the stream, which up until today has over 668 million views.
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Jun 22, 2022
If for whatever reason you think that smartphone screens nowadays are too big to watch content on, then this new app for the Apple Watch is the very thing you’ve been waiting for. Called WatchTube, this watchOS app allows you to watch YouTube videos on the Apple Watch and it works surprisingly well for a third-party app.
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