YouTube TV comes to 10 more US markets like Atlanta, Houston & Miami
YouTube TV — Google's recently-launched live streaming service — will soon expand to 10 more U.S. urban markets, the company announced this week.
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Roger Fingas
YouTube developing free original shows with Kevin Hart, Ellen DeGeneres & others
Possibly concerned about the growing amount of original video on competiting services like Netflix, Hulu, and Apple Music, Google's YouTube has announced plans to premiere six new shows, starring people like Ellen DeGeneres and comedian Kevin Hart.
YouTube TV rolls out in five cities with free Chromecast offer
YouTube TV, Google's live TV streaming service, is now live in five major markets in the United States, with Google tempting users to try out its $35 subscription service by offering a free Chromecast, allowing shows to be viewed on a television instead of through the iOS and Android apps.
Malcolm Owen
AT&T, Verizon join firms pulling millions in ads from Google, YouTube over hate, terrorist content
The U.K. advertising backlash against Google is spreading to the United States. Mobile carriers AT&T and Verizon, Enterprise car rental and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline are among the major ad buyers acting to distance their brands from the offensive and extremist content that saturates YouTube.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Corporate brands, UK government pull ads from Google's YouTube over extremist hate group videos
A series of major brands have pulled ads from Google's YouTube following reports that their ads are being shown next to terrorist, hate group and other offensive or controversial videos.
Google launches Uptime collaborative YouTube viewing app exclusively for iOS
Google's "Area 120" incubator project has developed Uptime — an iPhone app for watching YouTube videos collaboratively with other users of the app.
Mike Wuerthele
How Google's lack of human curation spreads and monetizes fake news
Google search is developing a credibility problem that could be blamed on artificial intelligence. In a statement, the company said its algorithms for generating "featured snippet" answers can cause "instances when we feature a site with inappropriate or misleading content," resulting in false answers. However, Google is also the source—and funding—behind much of the fake news on the Internet, thanks to a similar lack of curation for YouTube.
YouTube TV to offer live TV from four major networks this spring for $35 per month
Google on Tuesday announced YouTube TV, a live TV service launching this spring that will compete with other internet-only providers like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue.
As Apple hypes original content, Disney & Google sever ties with popular YouTube star PewDiePie
Disney and Google have drawn back their support of "PewDiePie," a leading YouTube star and the centerpiece of the YouTube Red subscription service, after a recent video featured an anti-Semitic joke. The shakeup comes just as Apple has begun teasing two upcoming exclusive programs for Apple Music.
