An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: At its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called "Communities," is kind of like a Discord server built into a creator's channel. With Communities, YouTube is hoping creators won't need to use other platforms like Discord or Reddit in order to interact with viewers. Communities are a space for viewers to post and interact with other fans directly within a creator's channel. In the past, viewers have been limited to leaving comments on a creator's video. Now, they can share their own content in a creator's Community to interact with other fans over shared interests. For instance, a fitness creator's Community could include posts from fans who are sharing videos and photos from their most recent hike. To start, the feature is only available to subscribers. The company sees Communities as a dedicated space for conversation and connection, while still allowing creators to maintain control over their content. Conversations in Communities are meant to flow over time, YouTube says, as they would in any other forum-style setting. The new Communities feature shouldn't be confused with YouTube's Community feature, which is a space for creators to share text and images with viewers. The feature launched back in 2016, and doesn't allow viewers to interact with each other. YouTube is testing Communities now on mobile devices with a small group of creators. The company plans to test the feature with more creators later this year before expanding access to additional channels in early 2025.

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YouTube has announced a series of AI-related features on the platform, including a couple that might change how creators make videos -- and the videos they make. From a report: The first feature is the new Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app, which YouTube has been testing in a limited way over the last few months. The tab's job is, essentially, to tell you what to make: the AI-powered tool will suggest a concept for a video, provide a title and a thumbnail, and even write an outline and the first few lines of the video for you. YouTube frames it as a helpful brainstorming tool but also acknowledges that you can use it to build out entire projects. And I'm just guessing here, but I'd bet those AI-created ideas are going to be pretty darn good at gaming the YouTube algorithm. Once you have some AI inspiration, you can make some AI videos with Veo, the superpowerful DeepMind video model that is now being integrated into YouTube Shorts. Veo is mostly going to be part of the "Dream Screen" feature YouTube has been working on, which is an extension of the green screen concept but with AI-generated backgrounds of all sorts. You'll also be able to make full Veo videos, too, but only with clips up to six seconds long. (After a few seconds, AI video tends to get... really weird.)

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Le verdict du procès de Baptiste Mortier-Dumont, alias ExperimentBoy, ex-star de YouTube spécialisée dans la vulgarisation scientifique à travers des vidéos déjantées, sera rendu mi-octobre. Il est poursuivi depuis quatre ans pour des faits de corruption de mineur dont Numerama avait révélé l'ampleur dans une enquête.

Google's acquisition strategy in online advertising has come under scrutiny in the U.S. antitrust trial against the tech giant. Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO and former Google ad executive, defended the company's purchases of DoubleClick and Admeld, saying they were aimed at competing, not neutralizing rivals. The Justice Department alleges Google built an impenetrable ad empire by owning key parts of the ad tech stack, stifling competition. Prosecutors pointed to internal emails discussing "parking" acquired companies, which they argue shows intent to sideline competitors. Mohan countered that "parking" meant allowing acquired firms to operate independently while integrating with Google's technology.

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Discipline, maîtrise, conscience de soi et de ses gestes, analyse du risque et du terrain, adaptation permanente... voilà des traits de caractère et connaissances que partagent alpinistes et grimpeurs. Et comme la technologie fait des merveilles, il est de plus en plus simple de faire des vidéos magnifiques de leurs exploits individuels ou collectifs. Notre petite sélection d'aventures dans les sommets devrait vous ravir.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Every day for the last four years, dozens of people have shown up in the comments of one particular YouTube, declaring their love and appreciation for the content. The content: two minutes and six seconds of deep, low buzzing, the kind that makes your phone vibrate on the table, underscoring a vaguely trippy animation of swirled stained glass. It's not a good video. But it's not meant to be. The video is called "Sound To Remove Water From Phone Speaker ( GUARANTEED )." [...] If you believe the comments, about half the video's 45 million views come from people who bring their phone into the shower or bathtub and trust that they can play this video and everything will be fine. The theory goes like this: all a speaker is really doing is pushing air around, and if you can get it to push enough air, with enough force, you might be able to push droplets of liquid out from where they came. "The lowest tone that that speaker can reproduce, at the loudest level that it can play," says Eric Freeman, a senior director of research at Bose. "That will create the most air motion, which will push on the water that's trapped inside the phone." Generally, the bigger the speaker, the louder and lower it can go. Phone speakers tend to be tiny. "So those YouTube videos," Freeman says, "it's not, like, really deep bass. But it's in the low range of where a phone is able to make sound." The best real-world example of how this can work is probably the Apple Watch, which has a dedicated feature for ejecting water after you've gotten it wet. When I first reached out to iFixit to ask about my water-expulsion mystery, Carsten Frauenheim, a repairability engineer at the company, said the Watch works on the same theory as the videos. "It's just a specific oscillating tone that pushes the water out of the speaker grilles," he said. "Not sure how effective the third-party versions are for phones since they're probably not ideally tuned? We could test."

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Malgré plusieurs tentatives de sauvetage de la captation sonore en cours d'émission, la diffusion de la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux paralympiques a été grandement perturbée sur France 2 à cause d'un problème d'écho. Sur YouTube, qui diffusait le signal international dans la plupart des autres pays, la musique était parfaite.

La chaîne YouTube CazéTV, qui diffuse la Ligue 1 au Brésil, n'a pas proposé les matchs du championnat de France le week-end du 24 août 2024. La raison ? Les Français qui contournent le géoblocage avec un VPN pour ne pas payer DAZN.

Cristiano Ronaldo, star planétaire du football, a officiellement rejoint YouTube le 21 août. En seulement quelques minutes, il a franchi le cap symbolique du million d'abonnés. Jamais un vidéaste sur YouTube n'était allé aussi vite.

Les abonnés YouTube Premium peuvent tester jusqu'au 2 septembre la fonctionnalité « Sleep Timer » qui permet de suspendre l'application au bout d'un certain temps. YouTube propose aussi d'attendre la fin de la vidéo.

Ce Tesla Cybertruck tout neuf ne l'est pas resté longtemps entre les mains du youtubeur WhistlinDiesel. Pour faire le buzz, il a infligé des tortures au pickup de Tesla, ainsi qu'au Ford F-150, dans un test d’endurance auquel aucun véhicule ne peut survivre. Alors, comment s’en est-il sorti ?

An anonymous reader shares a report: Multiple YouTube users are now reporting on social media that YouTube is serving them with blank ads or black screens before a video when they are using an ad-blocker extension. The black screens appear for the length of a typical YouTube pre-roll or ad insert before displaying the actual content of the video the viewer wants to watch.

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Russia admitted that it's deliberately slowing YouTube's loading speeds and said it plans to throttle the download speeds on the Google platform by up to 70% by the end of next week. Russia is taking this stand in response to Google's refusal to comply with the demands of the Russian authorities, local lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said. From a report: Khinshtein, the head of the State Duma's Information Policy Committee, claimed that the move is "not aimed against Russian users, but against the administration of a foreign resource that still believes that it can violate and ignore our legislation with impunity."

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