Starting today, a customised version of YouTube in Urdu language and domain will be available in our very own homepages. It will bring relevant video for the users.
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With more local content finding their way to their viewers’ home-pages, YouTube hopes it will help inspire more local creators to get involved, and help them get discovered more easily. YouTube has become an entertainment powerhouse that a lot of people use as their main source of entertainment these days, and just like their parent company Google, it’s available all over the world.
Google has announced that YouTube watchers in Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will start seeing a new homepage from this week.
The post also divulged into details regarding how Pakistanis love YouTube’s music offerings, particularly the Coke Studio channel.
The popular video site, last year, has already offered offline viewing facility to Nepal.
BytesforAll, an NGO based in Pakistan, had filed a case before the Lahore High Court in 2013, challenging the government’s blocking of YouTube. One of the country’s most popular YouTube channels is Coke Studio, a series of live studio-recorded music performances by artists from across Pakistan.
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Video-sharing website YouTube has launched localised versions of its service for Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, The Express Tribune reports, citing Google Communications and Public Affairs Manager Zeffri Yusof.
