News & Reviews:   YouTube

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.

YouTube announced a few new features to its app and web version today including Most replayed, Video Chapters on Smart TVs and gaming consoles, Single Loop and quick action buttons while in full screen mode. Besides that, a new experimental feature will also come out soon, whereby YouTube will help to skip to the exact moment in a video that users want to watch.

The popular YouTube Go app will be discontinued in August 2022 as the Google-owned company no longer sees its necessity anymore. Launched in 2016, YouTube Go is a lightweight version of the YouTube app designed for places with poor data infrastructure or expensive connectivity.

Are you tired of seeing some categories of ads on YouTube? If you are, Google has rolled out a new option for you to disable ads that belong to certain categories, including alcohol, dating, gambling, pregnancy and parenting, and weight loss.

Google is reportedly testing ads on YouTube Shorts as a another way to help creators monetise their videos. For now, the ads on Shorts will include products like App Install and video action campaigns.

Finally, YouTube is ready to roll out the picture-in-picture support for iOS users. According to the video streaming platform, the feature could launch "in a matter of days across all iOS 15+ devices".

For large screens, it makes sense to take full advantage of the space available. However, picture-in-picture mode isn't always available. That's the case for the YouTube TV app on Apple devices, but it looks like YouTube has finally managed to add the feature to iOS.

YouTube is testing a new way for you to react to the videos, rather than an old-school thumbs up or just plain comments. According to the latest report, the video streaming platform is experimenting with time-specific emoji reactions, which is something that you'll definitely find familiar.

Have you ever got a video stuck in your head but you can’t seem to find it anywhere online? Well, that’s where a watch history in a video-sharing or streaming app comes in handy.

Unfortunately, that feature is actually missing from the world’s most popular website and one of the most popular apps in the world, TikTok. However, this may change soon as the popular app is reportedly testing a new feature that allows for just that.

Google’s online video sharing and social media platform YouTube is now offering TV streaming service too, but with a twist. Get this, you can stream up to 4000 episodes of TV for free, but you’ll be interrupted with ads the whole time.

Seems like a fair compromise, don’t you think? Also, isn’t this just exactly what a conventional TV channel is anyway, only with an extra step and the convenience of picking what show to watch?