YouTube TV ‘Voice Remote’ Feature Rolling Out For Some Users

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If you are subscribed to YouTube TV and have the app on your phone, you might want to keep an eye out for a new feature that is said to be rolling out to some users. According to Android Police, they have been tipped off to a possible new feature in YouTube TV called “voice remote”, which as the name suggests lets users control it using their voice.

With voice remote, users will be able to control YouTube TV using their voice by issuing commands, such as navigating through the different channels, playing select channels, and also skipping around in programs. There will also be the ability to control your video’s volume amongst other features.

As Android Police notes, this is actually not the first time that a voice remote feature has been referenced. They point at a voice remote support page that was spotted on Google’s website several months ago, but now it looks like the feature is finally rolling out to users. At the moment it seems that not everyone is getting it as it appears to have been enabled server side.

This means that users don’t need to update their app in order to get the feature, although like we said not all users have access to it yet and we’re not sure how Google is choosing, but presumably it should eventually make its way to everyone.

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Snapchat Has Begun Rolling Out Unskippable Ads

On YouTube, there are ads that users can skip after a few seconds, and there are some that users have no choice but to sit through. Last month Snapchat announced something similar where they were planning on testing out unskippable ads, and now in a report from AdAge, those ads have started to roll out.

According to reports, these unskippable ads have started to make their rounds where the first few ads spotted were to promote movies such as Deadpool 2 and Adrift, along with products like the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Snappable. These ads will run for 6 seconds and are unskippable, although to be fair 6 seconds isn’t particularly long.

Note that these ads only appear in Shows and is a huge change for the company who had previously allowed users to skip ads immediately, resulting in average view times of just under 2 seconds. This change reportedly comes from pressure from brands who weren’t particularly thrilled about the way Snapchat handled ads, so hopefully this change will appease them.

That being said, one has to wonder if this change to Snapchat’s ad format will be applied to other apps and services as well. Instagram has introduced ads to its Stories which are completely skippable, but like we said, Snapchat’s change could prompt Instagram to follow suit.

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