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YouTube Premium was never supposed to be the tier that rids the site of ads. Instead, it’s an option offered by Google to users who want a trimmed experience for less money than a full Premium experience costs. In a change to some regions, Google reiterates that YouTube Premium Lite is going to start seeing ads in new spots.

Google is looking into a new bug in the YouTube app that hides a critical element of the app’s UI. The bug hides YouTube’s navigation bar, leaving users with no way to access certain pages.

Google has announced that Lens is coming to YouTube Shorts, starting with a beta that’s going live now.

YouTube teased a “little refresh” of the mobile app’s miniplayer earlier this week, and this update is now rolling out on Android and iOS. This follows the “feedback” people sent in after the October launch.

With 1 billion monthly podcast users, YouTube now offers a Weekly Top Podcast Shows chart in the US.

During its “Brandcast” this week, YouTube revealed a new strategy to insert ads into videos which will leverage AI to put those ads into the most important parts of a video.

The NFL has announced that YouTube and YouTube TV will be the exclusive broadcasters for its Week 1 game held in Brazil, meaning the game will only be watchable through Google’s products for the first time, and, it’s free.

After being announced recently, the YouTube app for TVs is widely rolling out a few changes including a dedicated Shorts feed that lives at the top of the subscriptions page.

YouTube Premium has been expanding in a couple of ways over the last years, including adding tiers for families and students. A new YouTube Premium tier has appeared in select regions for groups of just two people, coming in at a lower cost than the full-fledged five-person offering.

YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday with a number of stats, while previewing new features that are coming this year. 

Some users have reported a new YouTube homepage bug that allows the recommendation page to appear with few or no videos. YouTube is aware of the new bug and seems to be working on a fix.

Fake movie trailers are everywhere on YouTube, but now action is finally being taken against some of them after it was publicly revealed that movie studios were cashing in on those videos.

Google has confirmed it is investigating an issue causing low quality in playback of videos and Shorts through the YouTube app on iOS.

We know that YouTube is becoming a new home for podcasts, but to help expand, the dedicated Android TV apps dedicated “Podcasts” sidebar tab is now rolling out widely.