Subj : YouTube's new games and UI changes might improve your video consu
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Sep 06 2023 20:15:03

YouTube's new games and UI changes might improve your video consumption life

Date:
Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:00:40 +0000

Description:
YouTube is adding playable games to its front page while changing up the 
share menu for both desktop and mobile.

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Even as YouTube cracks down on third-party apps and raises YouTube Premium 
prices , the video streaming and hosting site has been making plenty of 
changes to improve the user experience. 

Two more such changes are being tested out right now: adding playable games 
and updating its sharing menu for desktop and mobile. For the former, YouTube 
is adding a Playables section to the site, with 9to5Google reporting that one 
of the games will be Stack Bounce . For now, its only coming to certain 
users, so make sure to search for Playables in the content section to see if 
youre one of the lucky few. 

The latter involves YouTube updating its sharing menu, moving it from a 
bottom-positioned share sheet to a floating option. According to Android 
Police , when your device is in landscape orientation, the floating bar is in 
the middle, while it remains at the bottom in portrait mode. Its a 
quality-of-life change that improves navigation for many users, though 
currently, its only available to a handful of users. YouTube is making moves, 
both good and bad 

There are plenty of other UI changes and features being added to YouTubes 
mobile and desktop versions. For instance, in July 2023 three features were 
added including a faster way to double playback speed, a Lock Screen for 
disabling all touch input while watching a [full screen] video, and bigger 
thumbnail previews. 

YouTube also revealed several other features in the works that all revolve 
around improving YouTube Music, whether its quality of life changes or 
changes that will have a noticeable impact on the music industry itself. Live 
lyrics , for instance, scrolls lyrics for you as a song progresses to make it 
easier to understand and to sing along to, and there's even a search function 
that lets you hum to find your favorite song . 

The biggest news by far, though, is YouTubes Music AI Incubator , which will 
partner with music industry professionals to ensure artists and rights 
holders are properly compensated for AI music. This would potentially allow 
the site to keep its AI cash cow without infringing on artists intellectual 
properties. 

However, there are plenty of unpopular changes as well like the 
aforementioned crackdown on third-party apps and YouTube Premium prices 
shooting up. Theres also the divisive Shorts, which is both popular but 
currently hard to monetize , as well as the implementation of a three-strikes 
policy against ad blockers . 

With all these changes to YouTube, itll be interesting to see how the site 
looks and functions even five years from now. You might also like Veteran 
YouTube staff think Shorts will ruin YouTube Microsoft Edge has a hidden 
feature that'll please YouTube addicts YouTube Premium is now more expensive 
for new subscribers



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/youtubes-new-games-and-ui-cha
nges-might-improve-your-video-consumption-life


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