Google is testing a new vertical live feed on YouTube for mobile viewers.
This new vertical live experience includes a scrollable live stream feed.
It also includes easily accessible fan funding features.
Google has announced that it has started testing a new vertical live feed on the video sharing platform YouTube for mobile viewers. This new vertical live experience includes a scrollable live stream feed and easily accessible fan funding features.
On September 06, 2023, the tech giant announced on the ‘YouTube test features and experiments’ page, “We’re running an experiment with a new full screen viewing experience on vertical live streams for mobile viewers. This new vertical live experience includes a scrollable live stream feed and easily accessible fan funding features.”
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During this new experiment, creators can stream vertically, either on mobile devices with the YouTube app or through desktop streaming software, and their vertical streams will be visible to eligible viewers browsing Shorts on the YouTube app.
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The tech giant further noted that it is currently experimenting with the new vertical live feed, and plans to test out more improvements to the vertical live streaming experience soon.
On September 5, 2023, Google had started testing a new experience on YouTube called ‘Playables’. Playables are games that can be played directly on YouTube on both desktop and mobile devices. Users who are part of this experiment will see a section on YouTube called ‘Playables’ that will appear alongside other content on the home feed. Also, they can view and control their Playables history and saved game progress in YouTube History.
Also, last month, the tech giant had started experimenting with the ability for users to search for a song on YouTube by humming or recording a song that’s currently being played. Users in the experiment can toggle from YouTube voice search to the new song search feature, and hum or record the song they are searching for for over 3 seconds in order for the song to be identified. Once the song is identified, they will see relevant official music content, user-generated videos, and/or Shorts featuring the searched song in the YouTube app.
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