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YouTube has plans to go beyond translated subtitles by allowing creators to dub videos into other spoken languages. At VidCon, the company announced yesterday that it's testing an AI-powered dubbing service called Aloud, developed at Google's Area 120 incubator, The Verge reported. The tool would eliminate the time and often great expense required to create a dub the usual way (with human translators and narrators), allowing creators to reach a wider global audience. Aloud promises a "quality dub in just a few minutes"…

YouTube will launch its first official shopping channel for live commerce in South Korea on June 30, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday.South Korea already has a booming live-streaming commerce business led by tech giant Naver, making it a prime test market for the global heavyweight as the Alphabet-owned company focuses on becoming more "shoppable".The new channel will operate in Korean language and will start as a 90-day project. In the beginning, it will provide a live-commerce platform to companies and plans to…

With 39 million views, Netflix’s “Wednesday” earned the top spot on YouTube’s Cannes Ads Leaderboard 2023, a roundup of the top global video ads since last year’s festival. Leading video ads trends. Music (Telecom Egypt, Qatar Airways, Orange Egypt, Burger King), authenticity (Peacock, Netflix, HBO Max/The Last of Us), cross-generational appeal (Bulgari, Peacock) and emotion (HBO Max, Bulgari and Qatar Airways) were the hooks that elevated the most popular video ads to earn more…

The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has issued two rulings in favor of tech companies that will for what users post on their platforms. In the first case, the justices unanimously agreed that will not have to contend with claims that it aided and abetted terrorism over tweets that terrorist group ISIS posted. SCOTUS reversed a lower court decision that allowed a lawsuit against Twitter to proceed after another judge initially dismissed it. The lawsuit was filed by US relatives of Nawras Alassaf, a man who was killed in a 2017…

YouTube’s recommendations are leading young kids to videos about school shootings and other gun-related content, according to a new report. According to the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a nonprofit watchdog group, YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is “pushing boys interested in video games to scenes of school shootings, instructions on how to use and modify weapons” and other gun-centric content.  The researchers behind the report set up four new YouTube accounts posing as two 9-year-old boys and two 14-year-old…

Opening the “bag of tricks” that makes a modern recommender system work(Logo design Eyestetix Studio, background design by Dan Cristian Pădureț)Recommender systems have become one of the most ubiquitous industrial Machine Learning applications of our times, but little is being published about how they actually work in practice.A notable exception is Paul Covington’s paper “Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations”, which is packed with numerous practical insights and learnings about YouTube’s deep-learning powered…

YouTube has the initial pricing for its . There are a range of pricing options that depend on when you make your purchase and if you have a YouTube TV plan. A Sunday Ticket package will be cheaper if you're a YouTube TV subscriber. It will start at $249 for the base plan if you sign up during the presale, which ends on June 6th. This will cover out-of-market games for the season, though other games will still air on YouTube TV. Adding NFL RedZone takes the price up to $289 during the presale. If you miss out on the…

Ads are a part of our modern internet world. We’ve gotten used to them, but they can still be a bother. YouTube shoves ads down our throats in several ways, but things are going to be slightly better thanks to a new announcement. According to the announcement, YouTube is getting rid of those annoying banner ads.If you’re not a YouTube premium subscriber, then you’ll need to deal with ads before and during your videos. One of the more annoying ads is the banner that pops up during your video. If you’re watching a video…

SoftBank Corporation founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son is expected to visit India next week after a gap of over four years, sources familiar with his plans told us. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.Also in this letter:■ Apple partner Foxconn plans 300-acre plant in Bengaluru■ ETtech Deals Digest: Funding stays under $1 billion in Feb for startups■ Creator community, Shorts key focus: YouTube CEO Neal MohanSoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to visit India, meet govt officials, founders During his visit…

Google-owned YouTube has disabled new posts and comments on its English Help forum as it switches to a read-only mode ahead of "improvements" in the next several months.The English Community forum has always been a place for users and creators to discuss YouTube with each other, and share tips and ideas to help each other get the most out of YouTube products and services."Unfortunately, many threads are not relevant for user-based discussion and a large amount of questions go unanswered. Our goal is to ensure this can be…