Published on: 2025-06-03 07:51:29
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has confirmed a bug in its Android app that is causing buttons in the bottom navigation bar to disappear for some users. Google says the issue is currently limited to Android users in the US, but users in Europe, India, and elsewhere are also reporting the same problem. The company hasn’t issued a fix yet, but has said it’s actively investigating the problem. YouTube has acknowledged a bug affecting the navigation bar in its Android app. In a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 09:47:52
As if early June wasn't already going to be a wild enough time in the gaming world with the arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2, that's also when a whole host of showcases takes place as part of Summer Game Fest. Along with the two blockbuster events — Summer Game Fest Live and the Xbox Games Showcase — there are a bunch of other ones in store, including the always-delightful Day of the Devs. There could be even more on the docket. There's always a chance that Nintendo and Sony will run a Direct o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 17:25:27
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is testing out a new leaderboard for livestreams. This leaderboard will show the top 50 most engaged viewers on that channel. The top three viewers will earn a badge next to their name. Viewers can also opt out of the test by going into Settings. YouTube is working on a way to boost audience engagement during livestreams. Its solution aims to gamify engagement by introducing a new leaderboard. YouTube is running a test that will bring an engagem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 09:30:31
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube is a constantly evolving beast. Between the endless UI experiments, the rise of Shorts, and the ever-growing ad invasion, it’s harder than ever to enjoy the platform like we used to in the good old days. But even though I eventually caved and got YouTube Premium — because when you can’t defeat the system, sometimes, you’ve got to join the system — all hope is not lost. There are still plenty of ways in which I can take back control of my YouTube exper
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 01:30:47
It's almost that time of year again. Summer Game Fest starts on June 6. The annual kickoff stream begins at 5PM ET on that date. Yeah, we know. The time isn't ideal for folks with regular jobs, but we'll be in Los Angeles to cover the event in person, so you can just hit up the site for updates. The best way to watch this is likely via the YouTube stream . After all, the event is being hosted at the YouTube Theater. There will also be a Twitch stream for the YouTube-averse. We’re proud to welc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 05:32:00
SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images Google Lens is now coming to YouTube Shorts, making it possible to quickly retrieve detailed information about particular visual elements within a video. According to YouTube, users can expect the new integration in beta in the coming weeks. How you'll be able to use it Say you're watching a Short on the YouTube mobile app, and you notice a plant you'd love to bring home to your apartment. You will now be able to pause the video by tapping the screen,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 14:47:27
Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Google Lens integration will be added to YouTube Shorts in the coming weeks. The feature will allow users to fire up Lens within a Short and quickly search for what they’re watching. Ads in search results will likely be a part of the experience when it rolls out widely to all users. Shorts is one of YouTube’s most important and fastest-growing categories right now. The company is constantly adding more features to the format, and another one coming in the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:48:19
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. YouTube is bringing Lens to Shorts. The feature, which will roll out in beta in the coming weeks, will let you search for more information about the animals, plants, and items you spot within a video. If you’re watching a Short with a landmark in the background, for example, YouTube says you can use Lens to search for the specific landmark and find
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 17:05:58
YouTube announced on Thursday that it’s bringing Google Lens to YouTube Shorts in the coming weeks. With this integration, viewers will soon be able to use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts. For example, if you’re watching a Short filmed in a location that you’re interested in visiting, you can select a landmark and ask Lens to identify it. From there, you would be able to learn more about the destination’s culture and history. By integrating Lens into Shorts, YouTube i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 21:17:49
Spotify on Wednesday announced a handful of new features designed to give podcasts a more prominent position in its app as it battles with Apple and YouTube to become users’ preferred podcast streaming destination. The company says it will begin recommending podcasts on its Home page and provide a Following feed for staying up-to-date with the latest episodes of your favorite shows. Soon, Spotify will also roll out new tools for podcast creators to recommend content and better engage with their
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 05:36:43
For millions of music fans, the most controversial app ban of the past year was not the brief TikTok outage but the ongoing delisting of Musi from Apple's App Store. Those users are holding out hope that Musi can defeat Apple in court and soon be reinstated. However, rather than coming to any sort of resolution, that court fight has intensified over the past month, with both sides now seeking sanctions, TorrentFreak reported. Musi is a free app that lets users stream music from YouTube without
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 17:28:56
Nielsen’s latest report serves as another wake-up call that YouTube is rapidly gaining ground in the TV landscape. On Tuesday, Nielsen released its April 2025 “Media Distributor Gauge” report, which showed that YouTube has achieved a significant milestone: it has maintained the largest share of TV viewing for three consecutive months, now accounting for 12.4% of total audience time spent watching television. This marks a significant uptick from 12% the previous month and an even more notable i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 21:05:45
The future of Power Rangers has been in limbo for a while now. Ever since the conclusion of Cosmic Fury—with no new shows on the horizon (up until very recently), scrapped reboot plans that could’ve severed the series’ historic link with the world of Super Sentai, and the company auctioning off the franchise’s history—just what Hasbro wants to do with its inheritance of the superhero franchise has been in doubt. Turns out, for now at least, the answer is the same as it ever was: what if we just
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 00:35:50
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. As YouTube prepares to air an exclusive NFL opening week game for free on September 5th, it’s hiring former Disney exec Justin Connolly. The move has caused Disney to respond by suing both YouTube and Connolly, saying he was in the middle of leading the team negotiating Disney’s license renewal with YouTube. He’d most recently been running the stre
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 05:35:50
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. As YouTube prepares to air an exclusive NFL opening week game for free on September 5th, it’s hiring former Disney exec Justin Connolly. He’d most recently been running the streaming services and linear media networks, and will take over as YouTube’s new global head of media and sports, as first reported by Bloomberg, and confirmed by YouTube spokes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 13:25:56
YouTube teased a “little refresh” of the mobile app’s miniplayer earlier this week, and this update is now rolling out on Android and iOS. This follows the “feedback” people sent in after the October launch. Original 5/15: Last year, the YouTube app switched from a miniplayer bar above the bottom bar to a floating design that takes after picture-in-picture. The upside was being able to actually watch the video while browsing the app, but some did not like the obtrusiveness of this new approach.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 08:48:03
Hi HN! We’re Bereket and KinfeMichael of Better Auth ( https://www.better-auth.com/ ), a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. To be clear—we’re not building a 3rd party auth service. Our goal is to make rolling your own auth so ridiculously easy that you’ll never need one. Here are some YouTube videos explaining how it works (we did mak
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 05:00:19
Joe Maring / Android Authority If you’re like me, YouTube is one of the most-used apps on your Android phone. If I want background noise while doing chores around the house or something to watch with breakfast, YouTube is the first app I turn to, and I imagine it is for many of you, too. I don’t need to explain how YouTube works; you know how to use it (or, at least, I hope you do). But do you know about all of the settings hiding in plain sight that can make the app significantly better? Whe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 13:50:51
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube TV has offered more details about its upcoming multiview customization experiment for non-live sports content. You’ll initially be able to build custom multiviews with select national channels like ESPN, Bravo, and USA. The experiment will expand to include local channels in the coming months. Google announced on April 23 that YouTube TV will be conducting an experiment “in the next few weeks.” The experiment would allow users to build their
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 08:14:00
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET At a time when major streaming services are announcing more and more ads, two more are following suit -- and they're using AI. Also: I used Netflix's secret codes to quintuple my viewing options - here's how Two major media companies, Netflix and YouTube, announced plans this week to utilize new ad formats to keep users engaged, and both are using AI. Netflix is 'marrying' ads with shows Netflix's announcement came during its annual Upfront event for advertisers
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 18:43:44
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 Edge this week, capping off months of teases and leaks. This is the slimmest Galaxy S series phone yet, but it makes a few compromises to get there. We asked readers on our website, as well as Twitter and YouTube followers, what they thought of the Galaxy S25 Edge. Here’s what you all told us. Galaxy S25 Edge: Hot or not? The results were broadly similar across our website, Twitter, and YouTube polls. It turns out that over
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 05:39:47
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. YouTube now has a chart that tracks the top 100 podcasts in the US. The Joe Rogan Experience took the number one spot during the week of May 5th to the 11th, followed by Kill Tony, Rotten Mango, and 48 Hours. YouTube will update the chart every Wednesday and rank each show by watchtime, according to a blog post from YouTube’s Steve McLendon. The ch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 09:34:32
A Youtube podcast microphone is seen at the Variety Podcasting Brunch Presented By YouTube at Austin Proper Hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 8, 2025. YouTube is solidifying its place in podcasts. The company on Thursday announced the launch of a weekly top podcast shows chart, rivaling those from Spotify and Apple . Podcasts such as "The Joe Rogan Experience," "Kill Tony" and "Rotten Mango" currently top the YouTube chart. Alphabet -owned YouTube said podcasts earn more than one billion mont
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 17:53:18
Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is updating the mini player on mobile. The video will now be paused if you hide the mini player. The mini player’s design has also been refreshed. Earlier this month, it was spotted in the beta version of the YouTube app that some updates were coming for the in-app mini player. It appears YouTube is done testing these tweaks and is now rolling out the redesign to the stable channel. In a social post on X (formerly Twitter), YouTube announced i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 21:04:00
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET While the official YouTube app and website only offer downloads for a few videos in select locations, there are several ways to retrieve content so you can consume it anytime, anywhere. Also: I'm a long-time YouTube video producer - these 3 AI tools help me do it better and faster In this tutorial, we'll show you how to download your favorite videos using three approaches: Using a free Mac, Windows, or Linux application Paying for YouTube Premium Using an obscure
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 16:32:00
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has introduced a new ad format that places ads right where something exciting happens in a video. These new types of ads are called “Peak Points” and use AI to identify the “peak” moments in a video. YouTube is always cooking up new ways to show you ads. Be it skippable ads, non-skippable ads, mid-rolls, or bumpers, the goal, as always, is to find more places to make more money. And now, thanks to AI, YouTube has found a brand-new spot to sque
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 13:00:53
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has announced that it’s slowly rolling out the ability to vote on songs in playlists. Upvoting a song pushes it up on the playlist, allowing it to be played sooner. The feature requires you to make an unlisted or public playlist, and anyone with the link can vote on the songs. YouTube allows users to make collaborative playlists, letting them invite friends and loved ones to craft the ideal soundtrack. Now, the company has revealed that it’s ro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 01:30:01
People walk by a YouTube logo as Google celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first video uploaded to YouTube, at the company's corporate headquarters in San Bruno, California, on April 23, 2025. YouTube on Wednesday announced a new tool that will allow advertisers to use Google's Gemini AI model to target ads to viewers when they are most engaged with a video. The artificial intelligence feature, called "Peak Points," identifies times when videos receive elevated levels of viewer attention a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 01:30:00
Imagine you’re watching a highly anticipated video from your favorite YouTube creator — perhaps the moment a famous couple finally gets engaged — when an ad pops up immediately after the clip. This is part of YouTube’s new ad format called “Peak Points.” The company revealed the new ad format during its Upfront presentation on Wednesday in New York. Peak Points leverages Google’s Gemini AI to analyze YouTube videos and identify moments it believes have the highest viewer engagement or are most
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 01:30:00
YouTube announced a range of initiatives designed to attract more TV ad dollars to its platform at Brandcast, its annual Upfront event for advertisers. Notably, the Google-owned video service is expanding its relationship with the NFL and plans to exclusively stream the NFL’s first Friday game of the 2025-2026 season. It’s also preparing to pilot a new way for creators to reach the audience that watches YouTube on TV through easily organized and bingeable TV shows. The latter was first announce
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