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Features new user interface, video editing tools and — YouTube app redesigned

Now it has to treat them like stars or risk losing them. She was greeted as a hero at the annual online video conference, receiving numerous rounds of applause during her talk.

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Those were additions for users, the new Youtube app however, is probably gonna be a favourite among creators now.

The popularity of video game channels on YouTube is “a close harmony of two things”, said McLernon. Most of their resources?

These cheap little boxes, called Google Cardboard, have been around since last year, and turn your phone into a a mini virtual reality device like Oculus Rift. Parts of the website may not work as expected without them.

Do understand the difference between channels you “love” and channels you “subscribe” to.

“We’ve never seen growth like that anywhere else”, he says. Google, for one, is touting the video format’s benefits for mobile advertisers. On Wednesday, YouTube hired MTV programming chief Susanne Daniels to oversee original movies and series starring top creators. They’re also not content only producing online videos. The report pointed out that the 360-degree Coca-Cola video celebrating the 100th anniversary of their curvy bottle had a 36 percent higher view rate than the standard video.

Google has introduced a big new update for YouTube for Android. Vessel charges a $2.99 monthly subscription and offers creators 70% of ad revenue. She also shared numbers to back up the bold statement.

– Users who visit YouTube’s home page is up three times over past year.

Wojcicki began by acknowledging those fans, and the industry attendees responded with plenty of enthusiasm of their own as she talked about the reinvention of television and the belief that “video created by anyone should be viewable by everyone”. The creators get 55% of that. Thus the feature that would bring the most gratification is that now the vertical videos can be viewed in full screen mode same as that in horizontal (landscape) mode.

Creators have noticed huge upticks in traffic from Facebook. “When it is monetized that will be very interesting”, Ms. Strachan said.

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On Twitter, meanwhile, YouTube teased VR advancements. The movies will premiere on YouTube before becoming available elsewhere, it said. The formal attire could represent the more serious tone Wojcicki is trying to convey today at YouTube – a company that just celebrated its first decade but must continually evolve if it hopes to survive another.

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