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Google’s popular video streaming platform, YouTube, has integrated a new functionality to its app that lets people operate the site through voice commands. Users will now find a microphone icon right next to the search bar. When you click on it for the first time, a notification will pop up asking you to grant permission to the website or application to use your microphone. Once you click on “allow,” again, a popup box will appear on your screen saying “listening,” as you speak, the platform will try to identify what you are asking for to present you with relevant results. However, before jumping to the search results page, the platform will first display a written text of your query. In case it doesn’t match what you actually wanted to search, you can tap on the microphone again to repeat your voice command. This newly-added support for voice commands is not just restricted to searching for relevant videos. Users can also navigate through the platform by using this feature as it also ...

The popular video-sharing platform, YouTube, has activated post-roll ads by default for all the videos eligible to run ads. In what has become a regular series on the Creator Insider channel, YouTube has informed the creators about this update through the first published video of the year. A YouTube member has revealed that any video above 10-minute duration will have post-roll ads activated by default for all monetizing creators automatically. For your information, a “monetizing” creator is a creator or channel owner who has applied for the YPP (YouTube Partner Program) and has been accepted into it. Creators belonging to this program are eligible to serve ads in their videos and, in turn, earn a portion of the total revenue depending on the number of views the ads gain. The platform provides creators with three primary advertising options – pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll ads. When publishing a video with at least a 10-minute duration, the creators can choose to run any combination...