Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube creators can now break their videos up into different seasons and episodes to make them easier for viewers to navigate - and binge-watch - on TV. The upcoming feature comes as YouTube has increasingly been pushing into the living room, with YouTuber revenue on TVs up 30 percent year over year, according to the company.Content creators can soon tailor their uploads for viewers in a format that looks very similar to Netflix and other streaming services when viewed on the TV, with full-screen episode descriptions and a hierarchy of seasons and episodes to navigate. GIF: Google YouTube has not described how the new formatting will translate to desktop and mobile UI, but expect to see it in some form on all... Continue reading...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is telling Premium subscribers outside the US that they'll be paying more for the service soon, social media users began reporting over the weekend. So far, the higher prices are being reported in regions that include the EU, the Middle East, and South America, according to Android Authority.The price increases affect both individual and family plans. In some EU countries, people have said they were told their family plans will be going from 17.99 to 25.99 (or 11.99 to 13.99 for individuals) starting on November 7th. Posts on social media are reporting similar increases in places like Singapore, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia. A Reddit user is tracking the amounts in one thread.Another Reddit user posted screenshots of a... Continue reading...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is partnering with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help creators identify content using their AI-generated likenesses on the platform and submit removal requests. The company will test the controls with celebrities and athletes early next year before rolling it out to top YouTube creators, creative professionals, and other leading partners representing talent."In September, YouTube announced plans for tools that would help manage AI-generated depictions of creators and their voices. Now, the company says it can give celebrities (and soon, creators) the ability to manage AI copies of their likeness, such as their face, at scale."Last year, CAA introduced the CAAVault, which scans and stores the digital likenesses of its clients, including their faces, bodies, and voices.YouTube is also working on synthetic-singing identification technology" that will detect AI content that attempts to replicate creators' singing voices. YouTube has already started letting music labels request the removal of AI content that simulates an artist's voice, and also began requiring creators to label videos containing AI-generated content earlier this year.

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is testing a new floating Play something" button that will pick a video for you, 9to5Google spotted in the YouTube app for Android. The button floats just above the bottom bar of the app, and when tapped, it picks a YouTube video to play for you.Just as in earlier versions of this feature YouTube's been testing, the new button reportedly uses the portrait-oriented YouTube Shorts player to show videos, regardless of whether they're vertically formatted Shorts or standard YouTube videos. Hopefully that changes by the time the feature gets a wide release.Other incarnations the company has been testing for over a year include a Play Something" banner and a simple button that looks like a black-and-white YouTube logo. If the feature's name sounds familiar, perhaps it's because Netflix retired a similar random video picker last year called Surprise Me," which originally launched in 2021 as Play Something."