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YouTube Premium Family Plans to See Price Increase, Including Legacy Plans

Kellen October 20, 2022 53

Google announced a price increase for YouTube Premium family plans today, bringing the starting price for a family up to $22.99 per month. In addition to raising the price for new customers, this new pricing will affect those on cheaper legacy prices too. In...

YouTube Handles are Here to Make Finding Channels Easier

Kellen October 10, 2022 3

YouTube introduced handles today as an easier way to find people and the channels you most like to watch. These new handles will make it easier to engage with those creators as well, across the platform. Think of a YouTube handle like you would an Instagram or...

Eye Roll: YouTube Tests Putting 4K Videos Behind Paywall

Tim October 4, 2022 50

YouTube is apparently in experimental mode, and sadly for users, none of their experiments and/or testing seems to benefit those who use the ad-supported (free) version of the service. The last time we talked about this, it was 10+ unskippable ads before a...

Noticing More Ads on YouTube Lately?

Tim September 16, 2022 83

Making the rounds on social media and reddit this month are users who are complaining about the number of ads on YouTube's ad-supported tier (aka free YouTube). Sadly, we're not talking about a single ad before a video plays or the occasional ad during a video...

YouTube Shorts Soon Coming to Bigger Screens

Tim August 23, 2022 6

YouTube Shorts, something I've tried to be openly opposed to, are headed to Smart TVs. According to a recent report, the non-castable videos will finally make their way to larger screens, opening up the possibility for many, many more views. The latest daily...

You Can Now Effortlessly Connect Your Phone to Your TV to Interact With YouTube

Tim June 1, 2022 12

YouTube announced this week that users can now effortlessly connect their smart device to YouTube on their TV, allowing you to read descriptions, hop into live chats, and do a ton else all while your selected video plays on your TV. To do this, you'll need to...

YouTube TV: 5.1 Audio Coming to Google TV, Android TV, Roku Soon

Tim March 29, 2022 8

YouTube TV currently offers 5.1 audio support on a very limited range of devices (traditional Chromecast dongles + Samsung, LG TV sets), but according to an update from the official streaming platform's Twitter account, that should soon be changing. According...

Google and Roku Reach Deal to Keep YouTube Around

Kellen December 8, 2021 5

The months-long public battle between Google and Roku has come to an end this week, a day before Google was set to remove YouTube from the streaming TV platform. With an agreement reached, not only will YouTube remain on Roku, YouTube TV should return as well....