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YouTube Shopping has just made its debut on Shopify, allowing content creators and merchants to easily integrate their online store with one of the world’s biggest entertainment platforms and reach over 2 billion monthly logged-in users. Shopify merchants can sell their full range of products on YouTube in three ways: Live streams: Merchants can tag...

YouTube Canada’s 2021 Impact Report has just been released, highlighting how Canadian YouTube creators earned valuable revenue streams and built successful businesses on the platform this past year. According to the report, YouTube content creators in Canada continued to contribute to the phenomenon known as the 'Creator Economy.’ It is estimated that YouTube’s creator ecosystem directly...

YouTube has begun to finally roll out its wider support for Picture-in-Picture (PiP) for iPhone and iPad. However, as of the time of writing, this latest expansion of the feature is only available in the U.S. Though, Canadian support may come down the line. PiP has been a work in progress for YouTube over the...

According to a report by TechCrunch, YouTube is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping users identify the most popular parts of a video by adding a graph, that can be used to locate and watch the most replayed parts of the video. In the past, the feature was available to select YouTube Premium subscribers...

The YouTube Music app has been slightly redesigned and altered. Rather than a static black background, the YouTube Music app on iOS and Android features a pop of gradient colour. The new look was first reported by 9to5Google. When looking at the app, the gradient colour bleeds from the top of the screen on mobile...

YouTube has announced that it is now letting creators use video clips from billions of YouTube videos on Shorts. On Thursday, YouTube announced that it's beginning to roll out a video "remixing" feature on YouTube Shorts, a new report from The Verge explains. The feature allows YouTube Shorts creators to easily cut a one to...

YouTube has confirmed that its picture-in-picture support will be making its way to all iOS 15+ users "in a matter of days." Picture-in-picture support for the YouTube app has been long-requested by mobile users. Google has been testing the feature for quite some time, meaning it's been toyed around with by a selected number of...

Last year, on average, Canadian songwriters and composers earned a paltry $67 in royalties from digital platforms, says SOCAN, which collects royalties for the industry. SOCAN, the body representing Canada's songwriters and composers like Drake and Joni Mitchell, has revealed that on average musicians writing their own material earned only $67 last year in royalties...

YouTube on Friday warned that the federal government's revised broadcasting bill could potentially cause Canadian digital creators, from YouTubers and streamers to influencers, to lose out on earnings, reports CP24. In a briefing provided to the press, YouTube Canada said by forcing platforms to promote Canadian content within the country, Bill C-11 risks diminishing the...

Google has announced its plans to block YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe amid Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this morning, the Google Europe Twitter account announced its plans to halt access to Russian media outlets as a response to the ongoing attacks in Ukraine. The plan has been executed immediately....

YouTube is now making it easier to know when your favourite channels and creators are currently live streaming. Moving forward, users will be able to see a 'Live' ring around the channel's profile picture when they are streaming. The news comes via YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan, seen by The Verge. On Twitter, Mohan...

YouTube has again extended the timeframe for its Picture-in-Picture (PiP) testing. According to a new report from 9to5Google, YouTube has again extended its Picture-in-Picture test on iPhone and iPad, which was originally supposed to end last October. Now, after multiple extensions, the test is now scheduled to conclude on March 14, which basically means users...