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We’re all used to dealing with the occasional glitch with the software or services we use. Maybe that takes the form of a confusing error message. Maybe it’s the app simply doing something other than what we tell it to do. But maybe the most frustrating problems of all are the kind where we just…

YouTube has introduced many user-friendly features over the years — whether it’s the “Jump Ahead” button that quickly skips sponsored segments, or the mobile update to timestamped comments, which flashes them to the top of the pile when the relevant point in the video plays. However, like many of its fellow video-sharing platforms, YouTube does…

Watching YouTube on a TV is great, but interacting with anything on the screen is a different story. Maybe you want to leave a comment, subscribe to the channel, read the description, or figure out what to watch next. Suddenly, you’re pecking away at an on-screen keyboard with a TV remote, and the phone sitting…

Casting from YouTube to your television has been a thing since, well, since Google first rolled out its Cast protocol well over a decade ago, and though the site’s default TV interface is pretty good these days, casting remains the preference of Chromecast veterans everywhere. If you count yourself among that crowd, good news: Google…

YouTube TV and ESPN have been on a bit of a rollercoaster, with last year’s Disney carriage dispute briefly taking ESPN and other channels off the service. One of the sweeteners when the two sides eventually struck a new deal was access to ESPN Unlimited for YouTube TV subscribers, and that started rolling out in…

YouTube announced on Thursday that eligible creators in the U.S. can now tag Amazon products in their content and receive a cut of sales. Creators can link Amazon products in their shorts, long-form videos, and livestreams.

Apple’s Liquid Glass design language has been hit-or-miss, depending on whom you ask. Our survey last year showed that readers overwhelmingly prefer Google’s Material 3 Expressive over Liquid Glass. That doesn’t change the fact that this is a core design element of iOS and will continue to be adopted by other third-party apps. The YouTube…

YouTube has always been a curious middle child on Android Auto. The streaming app isn’t as feature-packed in a car as it is on a desktop or smartphone, and if you wanted to see a baseball game while parked, you were out of luck. Some of that is about to change.

Starting next week, YouTube will change how view counts on a video are measured, with a view now being registered immediately as a viewer starts watching a video.

YouTube announced a change to how it counts public views on videos. It will now count a view as soon as a video begins playback. The original approach to views will still be tracked as Engaged Views for creators who value seeing how often people stick with their content. This revised policy will take effect…