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YouTube Shorts now averaging over 50 bn daily views: Sundar Pichai
New Delhi: YouTube Shorts, Google’s answer to TikTok, is now averaging over 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion that was last reported, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced.…
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YouTube Music launching ‘Listening Room’ to get users’ feedback
New Delhi: Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music will bev launching a “Listening Room” programme on Discord (an online voice, video, and text communication platform) in which the company’s product team will…
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YouTube tests hub of free, ad-supported channels
San Francisco: Video-sharing platform YouTube is testing a new hub of free, ad-supported streaming channels that will show content from certain media companies, the media reported. The video platform is in discussions…
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YouTube to share ad money with Shorts creators from Feb 1
San Francisco: Tech giant Google has announced that it has restructured the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) terms to include new modules such as ‘Shorts Monetisation Module’, which allows creators to start making…
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YouTube inks $2 bn annual deal for NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’
San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube has inked a $2 billion annual deal with the National Football League to acquire exclusive rights for the Sunday Ticket, a subscription-only package that allows football fans to…
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104 YouTube channels blocked for spreading misinformation: Anurag Thakur
New Delhi: Union minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said 104 YouTube channels, 45 videos, four Facebook accounts, three Instagram accounts, five Twitter handles and six websites have been blocked for spreading misinformation…
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YouTube in talks to acquire rights for NFL Sunday Ticket
San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube is in advanced talks with National Football League to acquire exclusive rights for the Sunday Ticket, a subscription-only package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon…
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YouTube creators contributed over Rs 10,000 cr to India’s GDP in 2021
New Delhi: YouTube’s creative ecosystem contributed over Rs 10,000 crore to the Indian GDP and supported more than 750,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the country in 2021, the Google-owned company said on…
- Technology
Google removes thousands of YouTube channels in China
New Delhi: Google removed thousands of YouTube channels last month, including 7,599 channels, 1 AdSense account, and 3 Blogger blogs as part of its ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to…
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YouTube bans Pornhub’s channel over rule breaches
San Francisco: Video-sharing platform YouTube has banned the adult website Pornhub’s channel due to multiple community guidelines violations. According to Google, Pornhub’s account violated YouTube’s external link policy, which forbids users from…
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YouTube Music may allow users to create custom radio
San Francisco: Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music might soon allow users the ability to create a custom radio. Currently, it already lets users customise their current queue by familiarity, genre, mood,…
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YouTube tests ‘Add to Queue’ feature on Android, iOS
San Francisco: Video-streaming platform YouTube is testing the “Add to Queue” feature for the Android and iOS apps. The feature is already available on the website version of YouTube. According to 9to5Google,…
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TikTok tests YouTube-like horizontal full-screen mode
San Francisco: Chinese short-form video platform TikTok is reportedly testing a new horizontal full-screen mode with a select group of users globally. According to TechCrunch, the move was intended to attract the…
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YouTube to show estimate process time for uploads
San Francisco: Video-sharing platform YouTube on Wednesday announced that it will now show an estimated time for how much it will take to process users’ uploads, so that they can decide the…
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YouTube’s Apple TV app faces issue, users complain
San Francisco: YouTube’s Apple TV application has been facing an issue for some users when they try to exit the application. Several users took to the microblogging platform Twitter on Tuesday to…
