Even Google knows its products are addictive. As part of its efforts to promote a digital wellbeing, Google has decided to show you the amount of time you spend binge-watching on YouTube. In its blog titled 'Tools to Take Charge of Your Digital Wellbeing', Google announced a new tool which will be accessible to its YouTube users. The personal time watched profile will show you how long you have watched YouTube videos today, yesterday, and over the past 7 days.
Even Google knows its products are addictive. As part of its efforts to promote a digital wellbeing, Google has decided to show you the amount of time you spend binge-watching on YouTube. In its blog titled 'Tools to Take Charge of Your Digital Wellbeing', Google announced a new tool which will be accessible to its YouTube users. The personal time watched profile will show you how long you have watched YouTube videos today, yesterday, and over the past 7 days.
The new feature will be available under your account menu starting this week. The video service already has a number of other features such as break reminders and notification limitations to help you keep a track of time lest you end up spending (or wasting) one more day of your precious digital life.
YouTube has also announced that it is expanding its monetization method of unskippable ads to more creators on its platform. This basically means you will not be seeing the 'skip ad' button more often.
YouTube announced that creators who can already monetize content on YouTube will be soon able to turn on non-skippable ads for all of their videos, The Verge reported. The change is rolling out to eligible creators starting next week. YouTube is also adding a new tool to allow creators bulk add or remove non-skippable ads and track audience engagement after making the change.
Also, YouTube may soon introduce its very own “Explore Tab”-- another example of a giant tech platform putting AI to use, tailoring what we see based on our past clicks. YouTube is at it again, experimenting with a new feature on a small group of its users. The last time it experimented in this manner, it prompted a backlash from the Creator community due to a “lack of communication,” an issue which has since been addressed in a blog post from CEO Susan Wojcicki. So this time around the company has gone about it with a slightly different approach, communicating its plans for a new ‘Explore Tab' through various social media channels.
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