 On today's episode, Facebook beats YouTube on mobile platforms, a 360-degree video feature, music lawsuits, and our predictions for 2015. This episode is brought to you by ControlFreak, the leading developer of innovative gaming accessories. Enter the promo code Freedom at checkout for 10% off all orders. Hello and welcome to YouTube News for the second week of January 2015. I'm your host, Alex Adams, and I'll be walking you through some of the most interesting and important topics relating to YouTube and the YouTube platform. First up, music lawsuits, yay. Turns out YouTube has been rolling out their music key app, and they're getting a bit of pushback from some big labels. Global Music Rights, or GMR, is threatening a billion dollar lawsuit if YouTube doesn't pull some of their artist's music off of the platform. For those who don't know, GMR is founded by Irving Assoff, and he is actually named the biggest influence in the music industry in 2012. For those who don't know, GMR has actually signed some very large artists, one of those being Farrell Williams. Anyways, YouTube claims they have all the correct licensing that they need in order to publish their app with their music, and GMR hasn't actually formally submitted any lawsuits against Google, so until then, it's all kind of speculation and kind of pointing fingers at who's to blame, so if there actually is any sort of lawsuit, I'll keep you guys informed and let you know all of the nitty-gritty details. Up next, some interesting statistics from the year 2014, and some predictions for 2015. According to Nielsen Group, YouTube and Google Play both had 80 million unique users every month in the year of 2014. Yes, that's 80 million each, not combined. The only two apps that ended up beating them were Facebook and Google Search, Facebook with 118 million unique users, and Google Search with 90 million uniques. So with those numbers in mind, what do you guys think will happen in 2015? I want to hear some predictions. Do you believe Facebook will remain the number one most used app on mobile phones? Do you think YouTube will remain the top video platform in 2015? Or let's broaden this a little bit and include just websites. Do you think YouTube will be the biggest used video platform in 2015? Or do you think some competitors are kind of gaining some ground on them? Maybe they'll be thrown off. I want to hear what you guys think. Let me know your predictions in the comment section down below and I'll try to include some of my personal favorites in next week's episode. Lastly, let's close this episode out with a new feature that's coming to YouTube pretty soon actually. Turns out 360 degree video is coming to YouTube. Well, what does that mean? It's not like I'm going to be able to view a video 360 degrees across my entire, I guess, field of vision. That'd just be kind of crazy. And I'd need a really, really large monitor from my computer. It's more like a 360 degree visualized area in the video player itself on YouTube. And while that might not really be interesting just yet, virtual reality might take hold of this and use it to present virtual video platforms for you to kind of immerse yourself in. Other than that, I really don't see any other use for this unless you want to create some sort of crazy 2D 360 degree video that nobody else can really conceptualize until you make it. So do you guys think this is an interesting ad to YouTube? I want to hear your thoughts on that as well. Anyways, that's it for my episode this week guys. I've been Alex Adams and you've been watching Impulse. You must quickly invalidate their argument and in keeping with our theme, strike them with one of the deadly shurikin we've provided for you. Extra points if you hit an audience member. Are you guys ready to play? I have to go to the bathroom.