News and notes on the latest from Google.
Live TV streaming services such as Sling and YouTube TV are increasingly becoming popular in the US due to cable’s high prices. However, according to a new report published by The Information, these companies are actually struggling to make money from their business model.
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The official YouTube app for Android recently just got updated with an Incognito mode this morning. The changes should be live in app version 13.25.56 or newer.
Update 5/18: Article has been updated to reflect the recent response from YouTube regarding current family plan members.
Today, Google announced new YouTube subscription services—YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium—and a brand new YouTube Music app. There’s been a slew of confusion and frustration over this move, namely because both are different in their own ways but also because of the lack of clear communication from Google over the upcoming changes. In this post, we’re going to attempt to clear up some of that confusion by explaining what exactly is changing and what will happen for users of YouTube Red and Google Play Music.
The Google-owned company, YouTube, launched YouTube TV in early April of this year, and since then, the platform has seen some welcome growth. However, one of the biggest drawbacks of the service since launch day has been a) its lack of some big channels such as CNN and TNT and b) it’s limited in the devices you can watch on. But today, and in the sometime future, that’s going to change—at least in the devices part.
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It’s been a little more than six months since the YouTube team and Google started rolling out the new notification bell across all their products, presumably signifying the distancing of YouTube and Google+, and this change still annoys me to this date.
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