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YouTube’s web player now auto adjusts for vertical video (but users hate it)

Vertical video is making quite the comeback in 2018. After Instagram launched its IGTV platform, YouTube’s now accommodating users who upload and watch video…

Yes, YouTube is ‘experimenting’ with users’ subscriptions feed

Hold onto your hats, folks. Google’s fixing what isn’t broken again. Facebook did it. Instagram followed. Even Twitter’s done it to an extent. So…

Here’s why Google thinks doubters will love YouTube Music

Google’s taking a big gamble with its new YouTube Music streaming project. The company’s lumping Google Play Music with YouTube’s wealth of music in…

Google’s YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are now official

If something’s not broken and doesn’t need fixing, trust Google to provide a solution. The firm did this with its messaging services — now…

This is South Africa’s hottest music according to YouTube’s Music Charts

YouTube this week announced its new music charts portal, which allows users — and generally interested folk — to gauge which tracks, videos and…

YouTube now ranks the world’s hottest tracks in its ‘music charts’

YouTube might be a video streaming service first and foremost, but it’s also the world’s most popular music distribution tool. So with that in…

YouTube now removes more clips of violence, porn before anyone sees them

YouTube couldn’t wait to tell people just how many videos of extremism and adult entertainment it removed from its platform late last year. Yeah,…

Why PewDiePie doesn’t care about free speech [Opinion]

Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, has made it his mission to fight The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The Swedish YouTuber is consistently posting…

YouTubers fight back as LGBTQ+ content is blocked

YouTube is blocking LGBTQ+ content in its restricted mode, and content creators aren’t pleased. According to the platform, the mode is used to “screen…

YouTube is killing annotations, and the community isn’t well pleased

Thanks to internet users’ gradual but constant move to mobile, YouTube is killing its video annotations editing tool. The tool, which launched in 2008,…

YouTube is bringing live TV channels to all devices

YouTube announced yesterday that its live TV service, set to take on cable, was officially a-go. “It’s live TV designed for the YouTube generation —…

People watch one billion hours of YouTube every day

YouTube revealed in a blog post yesterday that its users are watching a billion hours of YouTube every single day. A few years ago,…

YouTube reportedly ditching long, unskippable ads

YouTube’s in-video advertising will undergo a transformation in the coming months, this according to a new report by Campaign. The report suggests that the…

Update: Now YouTube scares PewDiePie by dropping his show

Hours after Disney announced they would no longer be affiliated with PewDiePie (AKA Felix Kjellberg), YouTube announced that they had cancelled his show and…

Disney ditches YouTube star PewDiePie over antisemitic videos

Disney announced yesterday that they would no longer be working with Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie — real name Felix Kjellberg — after it was revealed…

Beyonce sued for sampling Messy Mya: the YouTube legalities explained

Both YouTube and Beyonce have had a busy start to the month. That trend is seemingly set to continue, at least for the latter….

YouTube mobile livestreaming coming to your phone ‘soon’

Following in Facebook and Twitter’s stead, Google’s video behemoth YouTube has announced that it has begun rolling out mobile livestreaming to select creators. It’s…

Got a monster connection? YouTube now has 4K live streams

4K video streaming is still a significant obstacle for many internet users, requiring fast speeds and loads of data to take advantage of it….

20 of South Africa’s biggest YouTube personalities by the numbers [Digital All-Stars]

Digital All Stars is a series of articles which aims to celebrate the best of South African digital. The articles, which will appear on Memeburn and…

YouTube now supports HDR videos by anyone

YouTube has traditionally been pretty quick about supporting new video standards (for the most part), and now HDR joins 60FPS, 4K, 360 video and…

YouTube gets pinned comments, cute ‘creator hearts’

If you were to give the internet an enema, you’d probably stick the hose in YouTube’s comments section. Between the racism, sexism and trolls,…

It’s fascinating to watch a YouTuber grow up online

We’ve all seen those “dude takes a picture every day for five years” type of YouTube videos, but it’s incredibly fascinating to watch the process…

Google buys branded content platform FameBit

Marketing and branded content platform FameBit has this week been acquired by Google. This is in an attempt to bring brands and creators, especially…

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