YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has announced many new features to YouTube at the eighth annual VidCon conference.
She talked about VR, YouTube TV, new original series and a number of improvements to the core YouTube experience.
According to Susan, 1.5 billion logged in viewers visit YouTube every single month. That’s the equivalent of one in every five people around the world! In other words, 20 percent of planet Earth visits YouTube every month.
On average, YouTube viewers spend over an hour a day watching YouTube on mobile devices alone.
Susan also spoke about how YouTube wants to make VR more accessible and more affordable for viewers and creators.
The reality is, filming 360-degree VR videos isn’t easy for most creators and some VR cameras are expensive. That’s why YouTube and Daydream have worked together on a new format, VR180, and new cameras, which make it easy and affordable for anyone to make VR videos. This format delivers 3-D video while capturing 180-degrees around you. Creators only have to worry about recording what’s in front of them while viewers get an awesome, immersive experience with a VR headset, or a video that looks just as great on a phone as any other video. YouTube is working with camera manufacturers like LG, Yi and Lenovo to build new VR180 cameras for as little as a couple hundred dollars.
In the coming weeks, the YouTube mobile app will dynamically adapt to whatever size you choose to watch it in. That means if you’re watching a vertical, square or horizontal video, the YouTube player will seamlessly adapt itself, filling the screen exactly the way they should.
Last year YouTube announced a new sharing feature that lets you share videos right from the YouTube app. In a couple weeks, it’ll be available in Latin America and then throughout the U.S. soon after that.
And, YouTube TV will be expanding to ten more markets in just a couple of weeks.
To date, YouTube has launched 37 original series and movies on YouTube Red, and they've generated nearly a quarter billion views. Youtube CEO Susan announced that 12 new projects are coming to YouTube Red.
News Source: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/0...
