- YouTube has deployed new improvements for televisions and intelligent consoles
- They include several new sections to help you find videos and music
- This follows the news of a greater overhaul due to deploying “this summer”
YouTube undertakes to polish his Smart TV experience significantly this year – and the first signs of his efforts are now deployed for his application on televisions and game consoles.
As Google has announced in a new YouTube assistance post, there are nine new user interface adjustments designed to help you find programs, podcasts and live music. Although they are not as tall as the promised overhaul of the YouTube television experience, they should help you save time and efforts when navigation in the slightly dated application.
First, there is a new section “Continue your search” on the home screen, which will apparently display your three best searches. This seems practical since the research experience on televisions can be quite inconsistent and laborious.
Other screen sections of new houses (which YouTube call the “ shelves ”, for any reason) include “ listen again ” (showing the best songs you have sought) and a new practice called “performance, remixes and live covers”.
As a person who regularly digs the Treasury of Youtube of obscure live performance, I can be used a little.
Another new section includes one for “channels during prime time”, where you can see the channels you subscribed to, like Paramount +, Showtime, Starz or Dazn in one place. It seems that the lines between Youtube and Youtube TV, its cable replacement service in the United States, could soon start to blur more.
The new “ `shelf ‘(or the section) may be the most useful, as you can see in the image above, the section` `of your upper channels” provides shortcuts to your most watched YouTube channels. This should mean less time to hunt in the slightly boring subscription section.
Apart from these new sections, the biggest arrival is undoubtedly a new Podcasts tab. In February, YouTube noted that it is now the most popular service to listen to podcasts in the United States (according to Edison Research), so this functionality certainly makes sense.
Another promising upgrade is that YouTube has now divided its shorts more suited to the mobiles of its longer videos. There will now be a “short line” in your “Watch Next” flow, no longer a short section dedicated in your subscription tab.
It is not yet clear if it means that you will no longer see shorts in your subscription flow (something I would be satisfied), but anyway, it should make the experience cleaner.
If you like your videos playing in rehearsal, it is also possible to make all the videos on demand on YouTube – a feature that was previously only available for the reading lists. To do this, go to the reading settings menu and choose the “loop” setting.
The latest adjustment of the user interface in this series of updates is that “ online seen ” (the small video teasers you see when they oscillate on a miniature video) have now been extended to the pages for the channels, the subscriptions and the subjects.
This functionality will probably divide opinion, so it could be the most controversial of this otherwise positive step for the television experience of YouTube.
This update should soon deploy for the Youtube application on your intelligent television or your game console, or by the end of this June quarter. I have not yet received it on my Apple TV box, but it is to be hoped that it will also be available on streaming boxes.
What is another?
Last week, YouTube celebrated his 20th anniversary by teasing a overhaul of his television experience, which apparently arrives “this summer” (or at the end of September).
He did not extend the details much, but published the image of overview above and promised an “easier navigation” alongside “the rationalized access to the comments, the information of Canal and the subscription”.
These upgrades seem to focus more on the reading experience than new improvements in the reception screen, but are certainly welcome too. The big question is whether we will also see other “upgrades” such as “pause advertisements” slyly added to the mixture alongside the wider overhaul.
We will have to wait later in the year to see, but with a new “second screen experience” that allows you to use your smartphone to interact with the videos you watch, also later this year, it is clear that YouTube on smart televisions is changing – and above all for the best.
