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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…
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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…
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Google terminates thousands of YouTube channels in China, Russia, Brazil
San Francisco: Google has purged thousands of YouTube channels in China, Russia and Brazil as part of its investigation into coordinated influence operations. The tech giant terminated 5,197 YouTube channels and 17…
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YouTube fixes crash issues on iOS app
San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube on Thursday said that it has fixed crash issues on the iOS application that “many” users reported. From its TeamYouTube account, the video-streaming platform tweeted: “Hi, we’re aware…
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Google, YouTube to invest $13.2 mn to help fight misinformation
New Delhi: In a bid to further fight misinformation, Google and YouTube have announced a $13.2 million grant to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the nonprofit Poynter Institute to launch a…
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17-min of YouTube videos can reduce prejudice: Study
San Francisco: Watching just 17 minutes of YouTubers talking about their struggles with mental health can drive down prejudice, a research has suggested. According to the University of Essex, prejudice toward mental…
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YouTube starts beta testing quiz feature for community posts
San Francisco: YouTube has started testing a new feature which will allow creators to add quizzes to their community posts. The new feature is in beta and only available to a small…
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YouTube to allow Shorts creators to use minute-long licensed music
San Francisco: YouTube has announced that short-term video creators will soon be allowed to feature up to one minute of copyrighted music in their Shorts. The video-streaming platform said that its short-form…
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MrBeast dethrones PewDiePie as most subscribed person on YouTube
San Francisco: Popular YouTube content creator Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast has surpassed Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie, to become the most subscribed individual on the the video-streaming platform. MrBeast, 24, has…