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Sneha Bhardwaj June 3rd, 2019 12:51 PM 0 COMMENTS

YouTube, Gmail and Snapchat Faced Major Outages in the US and Some Parts of Europe

Google apps like YouTube, Gmail and Nest along with photo-messaging app Snapchat and other web services suffered major outages across the US and some parts of Europe. The root cause of the outage was traced back to issues with Google's Cloud service that powers other apps along with the search engine giant's own web services, The Verge reported on Sunday. The company, whose Cloud solutions are used by other apps... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 30th, 2019 4:23 PM 0 COMMENTS

YouTube Music Has Been Downloaded More Than 15 Million Times in India: Sundar Pichai

India offers great potential for Google-owned YouTube's growth and the latest in the journey is YouTube Music that has been downloaded more than 15 million times in the country, CEO Sundar Pichai has said. Admitting that recent ad product changes in YouTube and Search are hurting its top-line growth, the company sounded bullish on YouTube during its first quarter results on Monday. "YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are now available... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 11th, 2019 9:28 AM 0 COMMENTS

YouTube Plans to Show Interactive Content to Take on Netflix

After the raging success of Netflix's original interactive choose-your-own-adventure film 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch', Google-owned YouTube is now working on interactive shows and live specials. Following the traditional format of interactive shows, the content YouTube is planning would allow viewers to make their own choices throughout the show and eventually conclude an ending of their choice. The project is under the supervision of Ben Relles, former Head of YouTube's unscripted programming,... Read More

Chakri K March 27th, 2019 7:04 PM 0 COMMENTS

YouTube Music Can Now Play Locally Stored Songs in Your Smartphone, Here’s How It Works

YouTube Music went official in India earlier this month. Alongside YouTube Music, the company also launched YouTube Premium in the country. To recollect, both the YouTube Music and YouTube Premium were launched in the international markets back in the month of June 2018. Most people think YouTube Music steam online music content but that isn't the case. YouTube Music also allows users to play songs stored locally. This means YouTube... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj December 7th, 2018 6:37 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp to Deploy Proactive Artificial Intelligence Tools to Check the Spread of Fake Messages

Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter will soon deploy 'proactive, artificial intelligence (AI) based tools' to check the spread of hate messages and rumours inciting violence and crimes against women, Home Ministry officials said Friday. Anyone found involved in disseminating fake news creating social tension will be identified, name disclosed and prosecuted. This was agreed upon after a series of meetings between representatives of the social media... Read More

Chakri K September 7th, 2018 7:22 PM 0 COMMENTS

YouTube TV Membership Can Now Be Kept on Hold Instead of Outright Cancelling

YouTube, the Google-owned video streaming service today announced that it will be allowing users to pause their YouTube TV membership from four weeks to six weeks instead of outright cancellation. "You can cancel or pause your YouTube TV membership at any time. When you cancel or pause your membership, you'll still have access to YouTube TV until the end of your payment period," YouTube TV Help wrote in a post... Read More

Chakri K September 5th, 2018 7:40 PM 3 COMMENTS

YouTube Aims to Take On Amazon Prime Video and Netflix by Bringing Originals to Indian Audience

Google's video streaming platform, YouTube is looking to take on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix which, in recent times, has garnered a lot of interest from Indian audience, thanks to the Original content. In a similar manner, YouTube is bringing in 'Originals' for the Indian audience, and as a first step, the Google-owned company has teamed up with music maestro AR Rahman for its first such show in the country.... Read More

Chakri K July 30th, 2018 5:51 PM 1 COMMENTS

YouTube for Android Finally Gets Dark Mode a Year After its Launch on Desktop

After almost a year the 'dark mode' feature showed up on the desktop version of YouTube and four months after it appeared on iOS, finally the functionality will now be seen on Android devices as well. YouTube has reported that it would start rolling dark mode for its Android application in its entirety. Some users have already started receiving the update. The feature which was much liked by users on... Read More

Chakri K May 17th, 2018 3:49 PM 0 COMMENTS

YouTube to Replace its Red App with Premium One, Bumps Up Subscription Costs

YouTube is finally planning to launch a new version of its music streaming service and it will be called YouTube Music. The streaming platform will be redesigned to compete the likes of Spotify and Apple Music. This new music streaming service is supposed to soft-launch on 22 May in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and South Korea first, before expanding to 14 other countries including the UK in “coming... Read More

Chakri K May 17th, 2018 8:11 AM 1 COMMENTS

How to Turn On YouTube’s New Reminder Feature on Android and iOS Smartphones

While a healthy dose of smartphone usage is always productive and keeps you up to date on all your tasks, every one of us has found ourselves wasting away hours and hours on our mobile phones from time to time. To prevent this, YouTube has brought a new update to its application which will allow the users to set a reminder within the app itself which will urge them to... Read More

Chakri K March 24th, 2018 11:22 AM 6 COMMENTS

YouTube Has 225 Million Monthly Active Users On Mobile Alone in India

YouTube is the largest video content streaming platform across the world and in India, it's no different. In the last 18 months, the data prices in India has come down drastically, thanks to Reliance Jio's aggressive pricing strategy. Today, Google India said that a whopping 80% of internet users across all age groups in the country are watching content on YouTube. Alongside that, the search giant also revealed that majority... Read More

Zara Ali February 10th, 2017 7:00 AM 7 COMMENTS

YouTube Go Beta Now Available In India: Allows Download And Sharing Of Videos For Offline Viewing

Google's YouTube Go app was launched back in September last year, and now there is a beta version of the app that has been listed on Google Play Store. This new version is only available for India, and it also supports eight Indian languages - Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati and Malayalam. The main highlight of this new beta version of the app listed for India is that... Read More