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YouTube to Begin Labeling Doctors and Nurses As Reliable
YouTube has announced new labels, allowing doctors and nurses to be shown as reliable sources of health information on the platform.
YouTube Redesign Makes Dark Mode Darker, Adds New Features
New changes included in a recent YouTube redesign include pinch-to-zoom, a darker dark mode and ambient color in the background.
YouTuber Breaks Table Before Breaking the New Apple Watch Ultra in Durability Test
YouTuber TechRax has posted a video detailing the durability of the new Apple Watch Ultra’s screen. The device passes multiple “tests”.
Phony 'Apple Event' Stream on YouTube Gets 70K Viewers, Links to Crypto Scam
During Apple’s Far Out event, a user on YouTube live streamed an old interview of Tim Cook to lure audiences toward a crypto scam.
YouTube Picture-In-Picture Feature Comes to iPhone and iPad
The YouTube picture-in-picture feature has started rolling out to iPhone and iPad devices running iOS 15 or higher.
YouTube Star iJustine Gives Rare Behind-The-Scenes Tour of Apple Fitness+ Studio
YouTube star iJustine has provided a rare glimpse behind-the-scenes of Apple’s Santa Monica Fitness+ studio. Additionally, the star also conducts interviews with several prominent Fitness+ employees.
Apple Teases New 'Star Wars'-Themed 'Behind the Mac' Movie With Focus on Skywalker Sound
Apple has recently released a new ‘Behind the Mac” trailer which showcases how Skywalker Sound uses Macs to create famous movie sounds.
YouTube Stirs Controversy and Confusion Over Picture-In-Picture Returning to iOS
Over the weekend YouTube quietly removed picture-in-picture from the iOS YouTube app. Now Twitter messages are sparking confusion.
New Apple at Work Video Highlights Benefits to Small Business
In the latest installment of “Apple at Work,” The Underdogs launch their own startup. Apple products and features help them succeed.
YouTuber Ruben Sim Must Pay Roblox Over 'Cybermob'
The Roblox Corporation sued YouTuber Ruben Sim over leading a “cybermob” on its platform and terrorizing players, many of whom are kids.
The original ban, according to Roblox’s lawyers, was issued after the YouTube creator harassed other players using racist and homophobic slurs, allegedly sexually harassed users, and uploaded photos of Adolph Hitler to Roblox. Sim disputed this characterization in a YouTube video uploaded last week.
YouTube Killing Off Originals Business
YouTube is abandoning its originals play, and the head of the division, Susanne Daniels, is leaving the company in March.
Vinegar Cleans Up the Mess YouTube Has Become
Vinegar, a new Safari extension, works to both clean up your YouTube experience in the browser and add great new features.
YouTube Moves to Hide Dislike Count From User Interface
YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will begin hiding the number of dislikes videos have on its platform.
And earlier this year, we experimented with the dislike button to see whether or not changes could help better protect our creators from harassment, and reduce dislike attacks — where people work to drive up the number of dislikes on a creator’s videos.
YouTube is only making it harder to spot crappy videos at a distance. Now you’ll have to click on each video to be sure, or read the comments. More views = more money for Google.
YouTube Rewind Scrapped Permanently
YouTube is to stop making its annual ‘Rewind’ videos. The look-back clip was scrapped in 2020 because…2020, but the move has now been made permanent, TubeFilter reported.
The decision was made on what would be the 10th anniversary of Rewind. YouTube says it is not abandoning the project because of the widespread criticism it has received on more recent efforts, but because its platform has become so massive that it is impossible to encapsulate its vastness and diversity within a minutes-long compilation. Accordingly, YouTube says it will be passing the baton to creators, who have increasingly been producing their own homespun versions of YouTube Rewind in recent years. “Since Rewind started in 2011, we have seen creators from MrBeast [54 million views], elrubiusOMG, and Slayy Point, to so many more, create their own end-of-year videos, uniquely capturing the year from each of their perspectives,” a YouTube spokesperson tells Tubefilter.
The Life of a Content Creator — Media+
Shannon Morse joins host Charlotte Henry to discuss the life of a content creator and independent media maker. They discuss the writing, filming, and editing process, plus all the gear in Shannon’s new studio.
The Social Dilemma Now Streaming Free on YouTube
A controversial examination of the good, the bad, and the ugly (but mostly the bad and ugly) of social media is now available free to stream.
YouTube Regrets: Mozilla Studies the Tech Giant’s Video Algorithm
The Mozilla Foundation has released a report on how YouTube’s video recommendation algorithm affects its users by collecting stories in 2019.
YouTube TV Adds 4K, Offline Viewing for Extra $20
YouTube TV has added new features for subscribers that include support for 4K, offline viewing, 5.1 Dolby Audio, and more.
AdGuard’s Shortcut Can Help Block YouTube Ads
AdGuard, creator of a popular adblocker of the same name, started getting complaints from users that YouTube ads were slipping through. It turns out Google deployed a new algorithm for showing ads to logged in users (Read more here). AdGuard was able to create a shortcut that can block these new ads while they build similar functionality to block them with the AdGuard app. You don’t need to have the AdGuard app installed to run the shortcut. Download Shortcut
Lawmakers Call YouTube Kids ‘Wasteland of Vapid, Consumerist Content’
The US sub-committee on economic and consumer policy sent a letter [PDF] to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki about its app for kids, saying it’s full of “inappropriate… highly commercial content”.
According to the letter, some videos appeared to be “smuggling in hidden marketing and advertising with product placements by children’s influencers”.
The letter claimed that one research team, which it did not name, found only about 4% of videos had a high educational value. Much of the rest was low quality content such as toy unboxing and videos of people playing video games.
Epic/Apple Slapfight Escalation, Important Emoji Updates – TMO Daily Observations 2021-02-18
Charlotte Henry joins host Kelly Guimont to discuss the latest chapter of the (Apple v) Epic Saga, with a preview of some new iOS emoji.
Apple TV Third-Gen Will Need AirPlay for YouTube
YouTube is sending emails to Apple TV third-gen owners saying it will remove the app in the future. The solution is using AirPlay.
YouTube Hashtag Landing Pages Now Available to All Users
YouTube made hashtag landing pages available to all users on Tuesday, Techcrunch reported. Although these operate differently from how they do on other social networks, they still provide another way for users to find content, and creators to get eyeballs.
Going forward, when you click on a hashtag on YouTube, you’ll be taken to a dedicated landing page that contains only videos that are using the hashtag. This page is also sorted to keep the “best” videos at the top, YouTube claimed. The ranking algorithm, however, may need some work as it’s currently surfacing an odd mix of both newer and older videos and seems to be heavily dominated by Indian creator content, in several top categories. The result, then, is not the equivalent to something like a hashtag search on a social network like Facebook or Twitter, for example, where more recent content gets top billing. For that reason, it may be difficult to use these hashtag landing pages for discovery of new videos to watch, as intended, but could still serve as an interesting research tool for creators looking to better leverage the hashtag format.