Category: YouTube TV
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YouTube Tests AI Music Tool That Auto-Generates Songs Using the Voices of T-Pain, Charlie Puth, and More
YouTube gave users a sneak peek of its first artificial intelligence-based music experiment, Dream Track for Shorts. The tools let users create custom songs on the fly with a system that mimics popular artists like Charlie Puth to use as a soundtrack for their YouTube Shorts. YouTube, like its parent Google, is experimenting with the…
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Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Hispanic Institute, and More Push FCC to Reject Idea of Turning YouTube TV, Fubo, and Hulu Into Cable TV Companies
A band of civil rights groups and media organizations including the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, The Hispanic Institute, Japanese Americans Citizens League, and Afroland TV sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to reject the idea of applying cable TV-style regulations on live streaming services like YouTube TV, Hulu With Live TV,…
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YouTube TV App Now Available in Spanish
You can now experience the YouTube TV app in Spanish. The live video streaming service, a unit of Google, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that you can switch the interface and guide so it will appear in Spanish. The feature is a potential boon to anyone in the Hispanic population, which accounts for 19% of…
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A New YouTube Feature Makes Pausing and Unpausing Videos Less Jarring
YouTube has a wealth of features to help with your streaming binges, from audio-only capabilities to curating a queue of videos tailored to your viewing habits. Cord Cutters News noticed a new feature flying under the radar that slightly rewinds paused videos. When we paused a video briefly, it resumed where we left off. But…
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YouTube Premium Gets Price Hikes Around The World
YouTube started raising the price of its ad-free Premium service in July, starting with a rollout in the U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. Beginning November 1, the price hikes hit even more countries. Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, Germany, Poland, and Turkey are seeing price increases across individual, family, and student plans for YouTube Premium…
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YouTube TV & Paramount Reach a Deal to Avoid a Blackout of CBS, Nickelodeon, CBS Sports, & More
Earlier this week, for a short time, a warning message showed up on Youtube TV’s website warning that Paramount-owned channels would be dropped. Now that message is gone and Cord Cutters News has confirmed that a deal has been reached to avoid a blackout for now. The message on YouTube TV’s website said that because…
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YouTube Shorts Averages 70 Billion Daily Views
YouTube’s take on TikTok is its own beast. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed that YouTube Shorts, its short-form video format that apes the experience of TikTok, is averaging 70 billion daily views. The videos are watched by an average of 2 billion signed-in users each month, he added. The performance of shorts has helped drive…
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YouTube is Developing AI to Let You Sing Exactly Like Your Favorite Musician
YouTube is reportedly developing a new artificial intelligence feature to make you sound like your favorite artists. The AI voice modifier works differently than a voice enhancer, which can auto-tune a singer to keep them in tune while sounding like themselves. YouTube’s feature, however, makes users sound nearly identical to the real deal, which has…
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A YouTube Revolt? Studio Pulls Popular ‘Red vs. Blue’ Series From Platform Over Lack of Revenue
Rooster Teeth, a studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, took two of its most popular animated shows off YouTube and put them up on its own site, taking a shot at the massive streaming platform for its system of paying creators. The gaming and comedy entertainment group says YouTube doesn’t generate enough ad revenue per…