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Discussion around YouTube is focused on two main threads: TV viewing is surging, with Shorts and general app usage getting more attention on television screens, and YouTube is pushing harder into shopping and storefront-style features on TV. There is also some lighter chatter around YouTube-related careers, course learning, and content discovery.

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Key Takeaway YouTube is evolving beyond video playback on TV into a major viewing-and-shopping platform, with Shorts engagement and new commerce features both gaining momentum.
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YouTube is evolving beyond video playback on TV into a major viewing-and-shopping platform, with Shorts engagement and new commerce features both gaining momentum.

Discussion around YouTube is focused on two main threads: TV viewing is surging, with Shorts and general app usage getting more attention on television screens, and YouTube is pushing harder into shopping and storefront-style features on TV. There is also some lighter chatter around YouTube-related careers, course learning, and content discovery.

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Shorts watch time 2 billion hours watched on TVs each month
TV shopping Users will soon be able to buy products while watching videos on TV
Google Pay integration YouTube TV shopping is tied to Google Pay
App redesign YouTube app for Google TV is getting side-menu revamps

What to Watch

  • Watch for the rollout date of YouTube's TV shopping features in upcoming app updates. 9to5Google
  • Track Google TV app release notes for the side-menu redesign and library-access changes. 9to5Google
  • Follow YouTube's TV viewing metrics to see whether Shorts engagement keeps climbing from 2 billion hours a month. TechCrunch

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Why is Google adding vertical video to Google TV?

Adding Google Shorts to your homescreen is part of Google's wider mission to keep you inside its ecosystem and watching its ads. At the moment, the homescreen recommendations are for movies and shows, often sending you other services; by adding YouTube Shorts to the mix, you might potentially watch lots of videos from Google's own services, each with ads. Vertical video isn't the only addition coming to Google TV. As of today, if you're a US owner of a TCL TV with Gemini (such as the TCL QM8K) you can access more generative AI tools in the form of the Nano Banana and Veo apps, for generating i

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What's the best live TV streaming service overall?

We've tested all of the popular paid live TV streaming services including Sling TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, DirecTV, Philo and Fubo. Among this competition, our top choices in this category are YouTube TV and the budget-friendly Sling TV. At the affordable end of the spectrum, Sling's Blue package carries many basic channels for $46 a month, while YouTube's channel lineup is worth the $83. Each service provides a user-friendly layout and a blend of live channels with unlimited DVRs and on-demand content. Beyond those two, all of the cancel-anytime live TV packages we've evaluated on this list allow

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Do people really want this?

You can check out the details on YouTube's experimental features page for Premium members. The search bar feels more like something you'd see with Gemini, allowing users to have a conversation in order to get the results they are looking for. When searching on YouTube, users will be hit with text, images, and even video results in this new experimental mode. You can even ask follow-up questions if needed, and YouTube will even present some additional prompts that might be worth looking at. As you can imagine, blending these two worlds together can get a little messy. But for the most part, it

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