Amazon and Google are officially friends now: YouTube on Fire TV, Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV

Way back in December of 2017, Google pulled YouTube off of the Fire TV citing a “lack of reciprocity” by Amazon. Amazon would not carry Chromecast and Google Home products on their store, Prime Video did not support Chromecast, and new Nest devices were being pulled. Consumers were the ones to suffer the most because of these companies’ disagreements. However, Amazon essentially announced yesterday that they and Google are officially friends now. Hooray!

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YouTube TV increases its monthly price to $50, adds eight new channels

YouTube TV is YouTube’s own service that offers the streaming of live TV channels including local sports and news. When it first launched, it cost $34.99 a month which then increased to $39.99 in February 2018 (existing subscribers were grandfathered, however). Starting today, YouTube TV’s monthly pricing is increasing to $49.99 for all subscribers and eight new channels are being added.

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The YouTube Music team had a Q&A session, and here’s what they had to say

The redesigned YouTube Music was announced back in May of this year, creating a lot of confusion and annoyance from Google Play Music users, namely due to the lack of clear communication from Google on certain important matters. Anyhow, fast forward a few months later and the YouTube Music team now has more answers on user feedback. You can visit the Q&A page here or have all the key points summarized by us below.

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YouTube is testing a new gesture to swipe through your queued videos on Android

Over the past couple of months, YouTube has received a lot of updates changing some of its UI and adding more features. And according to recent reports, Google seems to be not done yet with testing new features for YouTube. While the recent changes to the YouTube app were relatively subtle, Google seems to be testing a new gesture to be added that will make things a lot more convenient for us all. Continue reading “YouTube is testing a new gesture to swipe through your queued videos on Android”