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YouTube rolls out “Autoplay on Home” for mobile phones

Muhammad Nouman Sarwar
December 5, 2018

YouTube announced bringing a change to its mobile application. The video streaming giant would now autoplay videos on the home page silently when the user is scrolling. This feature would…

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YouTube launches Stories for channels having 10k or more subscribers

Fazeel Ashraf
November 30, 2018

It seems like YouTube has fully embraced Stories for its platform. The video streaming website announced its own version of Stories last year. The platform also released its own take…

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California Wildfire Conspiracies Viral on YouTube

Noor Imtiaz
November 23, 2018

Conspiracy videos suggesting that the California wildfires were lit by government laser beams have clocked up millions of views on YouTube. The news site Motherboard found out that conspiracy theories and fake…

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YouTube will now let you watch movies for free through Ads

Fazeel Ashraf
November 19, 2018

You’ve read that correctly. YouTube will now let users watch movies on their platform for free, supported by ads. YouTube added a section called “free to watch” on its site.…

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YouTube VR app makes it to the Oculus Go

Fazeel Ashraf
November 14, 2018

YouTube VR app is finally available on the Oculus Go VR headset. This is a joyous occasion for all VR enthusiasts as they finally have access to the world’s largest…

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Youtube CEO Denounces EU's Copyright Regulation Proposal

Noor Imtiaz
November 13, 2018

The European Union officially voted in favor of a controversial new law called the Copyright Detective. This law aims to update copyright regulation laws for the new age of the…

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Youtube is not far behind Twitch in terms of livestream viewership

Fazeel Ashraf
October 26, 2018

According to a new “state of the industry” report curated by StreamElements, Youtube is closing in on Twitch in terms of livestream views. Although Twitch is still the king of…

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YouTube and Eventbrite, from music videos to concert tickets

Fana Anwar
October 19, 2018

Have you ever seen a music video and thought “This song would be amazing to sing along to in a concert crowd” but just didn’t know where to look for…

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Youtube is live again after an hour of outage!

Areen Zahra
October 17, 2018

Did you just experience an interruption during your video streaming and saw nothing but a blank web page with “500 Internal Server Error” mocking right at your face? Well, don’t…