Ash Parrish
It’s almost time for Geoff.
The Game Awards 2024 YouTube stream is live and poppin’ with over 300,000 viewers less than a half hour before showtime. Watch it below, or, if you prefer a more up-to-date stream, watch it on Twitch.
YouTube
YouTube launched in 2005 as a video sharing platform, and was acquired by Google (now Alphabet) in 2006. It has built an entire community of creators that run channels dedicated to topics like gaming, tech reviews, and beauty. It also houses news videos and entertainment such as music videos, movie trailers, and clips from late-night TV shows.
YouTube’s rapid growth has not been without problems. YouTubers typically make money from ads that run in front of their videos, but if they break the platform’s rules, their channels and videos can be demonetized. Executives and moderators have worked to combat harassment, misinformation, terrorist propaganda, hate content, and other abuse.
The Verge runs two YouTube channels, The Verge and Verge Science.
Gaby Del Valle
Jess Weatherbed
YouTube’s new AI tool yaps nonsense.
We can now see what the “editable AI-enhanced reply suggestions” feature that was announced in September looks like thanks to YouTuber Clint Basinger (seen via 404 Media), and it’s pretty half-baked.
The AI seems to understand that Basinger’s channel focuses on gaming and gadget reviews, but that just means it throws completely out-of-context tech jargon into most reply suggestions.
Chris Welch
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Samsung’s Music Sync is getting a deeper integration with YouTube Music.
Music Sync in the SmartThings app can now start your YouTube Music playlist automatically when you hit the button to get your Philips Hue smart lights in sync with the tunes.
Press the Party button to get your Party playlist and party lighting, or opt for Relax, Workout, etc.
However, you’ll need YouTube Premium, a Galaxy device, and Hue smart lights for all this to work.
Jay Peters
Playables with pals.
YouTube is now testing multiplayer on two of its casual Playables games, Ludo Club (which is basically Sorry!) and Magic Tiles 3 (a music game).
More new Playables features are on the horizon: “We’re just getting started testing out new features for YouTube Playables with more to come in the future,” YouTube says.
Andrew J. Hawkins
David Pierce
Umar Shakir
Chris Welch
YouTube shrinks its playback speed picker on Android and iOS.
What was once a list is now a slider. According to 9to5Google, YouTube is rolling out a redesigned mobile UX for choosing your preferred playback speed.
I’m old fashioned and watch at normal speed — and no, I don’t want to know how much of my life I’ve wasted on YouTube. But Nilay says the 1.75x option is now harder to get to.
Russ Crandall is Retro Game Corps, and his job is at stake.
Sean Hollister
Mia Sato
MrBeast is again attaching his name to disgusting food.
Last year the YouTuber sued his business partner in charge of MrBeast Burgers, after customers complained about “inedible” and “revolting” food. Undeterred, this year MrBeast partnered with Logan Paul and KSI to launch Lunchly, a line of Lunchables-style snack boxes — that are apparently full of mold. If your kid asks for them maybe show them these pictures.
David Pierce
The future of marketing — and, in a way, everything else — is getting a shakeup.
Nilay Patel
Jay Peters
YouTube is testing “AI-enhanced” suggestions for comment replies.
Could be a helpful way to for creators to more easily reply to comments from their audience. The test is small right now and available only on the mobile app, according to a post about the test.
YouTube test features and experiments - YouTube Community
[support.google.com]
Jay Peters
You can now make your longer Short.
You can now upload YouTube Shorts that can be as much as three minutes long.
They won’t immediately show up as Shorts, though, according to YouTube’s Rene Ritchie — the full rollout for that across YouTube will take a bit.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Let’s stop (motion) and take another look Over the Garden Wall.
Though Over the Garden Wall still remains criminally unavailable on Max where it belongs, a new two-minute-long stop-motion short from series creator Patrick McHale and Aardman is coming to Cartoon Network’s YouTube channel on November 3rd.
Wes Davis
Scope creep.
Colin of the This Does Not Compute YouTube channel says what started as a Macintosh SE/30 motherboard repair turned into spending “over a year and about a thousand bucks” building this franken-Mac, instead.
He used some original parts; but it’s otherwise assembled from new old-stock chips, a custom motherboard, and solid polymer caps that will “never leak like electrolytic ones tend to.” The end result? A functional, RGB-laden, translucent SE/30.