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Saiyaara title track topped YouTube’s 2025 list of trending songs; Mr Beast; Squid Game, Coolie also make presence felt | Bollywood News

Saiyaara title track topped YouTube’s 2025 list of trending songs; Mr Beast; Squid Game, Coolie also make presence felt | Bollywood News

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YouTube has unveiled its 2025 Vibe Check, the year-end lists of all that trended on the platform throughout the year. The trends included not only the most popular creators, but also songs that captured the viewers’ imagination, and the Indian and international films and shows that made waves on the internet round the year. Top Songs The title track of Mohit Suri’s blockbuster romantic drama Saiyaara topped the YouTube 2025 list of trending songs. The song, composed by Arslan Nizami, Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah, is sung by Abdullah and written by Irshad Kamil. Since the film was produced by Aditya Chopra’s Yash Raj Films, the song is streaming on the YouTube channel of its official music label, Yash Raj Music. The video of the track featured the charismatic new lead actors of the movie — Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda. The Saiyaara title track was also on the #3 spot on the trending songs on YouTube Shorts. Other trending songs included Kalyan Keys, Singer Prabha, and Ramu Rathod’s Telugu track “Ranu Bombai Ki Ranu” on …

YouTube’s new AI tool generates free background music for videos

YouTube’s new AI tool generates free background music for videos

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YouTube is giving creators a new AI tool that can generate instrumental tracks to use in videos for free without worrying about copyright claims, TechCrunch reports. The new feature was demonstrated in a video posted on the company’s Creator Insider channel this week. In the video, the host, Lauren, shows a new tab in the Creator Music beta section on YouTube called “Music assistant” where you can enter a prompt like “give me uplifting and motivational music for a workout montage.” The tool then generates several tracks you can review and download so you can add them to your video editor. Lauren says it’s gradually rolling Music assistant out for users who have access to Creator Music. Music assistant is one of several AI music-generating tools out there. Companies like Stability AI have a diffusion model that can make background audio for projects, and Meta’s open-source AudioCraft and MusicGen models can synthesize sounds and media using prompts, too. YouTube has also experimented with AI music in other ways. It built a music remixer that lets …

YouTube’s new Discord-like Communities are rolling out to more creators

YouTube’s new Discord-like Communities are rolling out to more creators

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YouTube is expanding the availability of its dedicated community space feature to more creators on the site, giving them more opportunities to connect with their fans without needing to lean on another platform like Discord. Only available for access via mobile devices, Communities first launched during the Made for YouTube event last fall, letting the creators write posts with images and text while also enabling fans to start discussions. “We’ve been testing Communities with a small group of creators and have heard positive feedback, which is why we’re excited to keep expanding access, says today’s post from YouTube. Creators can monitor and moderate via a Community Hub in the YouTube Studio app that combines the activity from their channel, and can also offer suggestions for replies to fans. YouTube is also renaming its previously existing Community tab to Posts to try to keep things clear between the two things: The tab will work just as it does today, just with a new name. Creators can still share updates and announcements via posts and viewers can …

YouTube’s AI-powered dubbing is now available to many more creators

YouTube’s AI-powered dubbing is now available to many more creators

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YouTube says it has expanded its AI-powered auto-dubbing to “hundreds of thousands of channels” in the YouTube Partner Program that are “focused on knowledge and information.” YouTube says it will bring the feature to “other types of content soon.” What the dubs consist of depends on the language used in the original video. If it was in English to start, it’ll be translated into French, German, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Portuguese. If the starting video was made in one of those languages, YouTube will only produce an English dub. For channels that have it, AI-dubbed videos are created automatically when the original video is uploaded, but creators can opt to preview them before they’re published. YouTube also provides options to unpublish or delete dubs, according to a support document for the feature. The dubs aren’t very natural-sounding now, but YouTube promises they’ll get better at emulating “tone, emotion, and even the ambiance of the surroundings” with later updates. Here’s an English dub example of a French video about making potatoes au gratin: However, …

This website unearths YouTube’s lost and forgotten iPhone clips

This website unearths YouTube’s lost and forgotten iPhone clips

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The “IMG_0001” website features a frame with an old TV static effect and a floating retro Panasonic remote that you can click to start watching random YouTube videos from over a decade ago that were recorded and uploaded from devices such as 2010’s iPhone 4. As described on the site, there was a novel (at the time) “Send to YouTube” feature on iPhones between 2009 and 2012 that let you upload recordings directly from your iPhone for anyone to see — which often aren’t accompanied by any text descriptions. Each video is titled something like IMG_XXXX, which follows the default naming conventions of recordings from iPhones (and many, many cameras). If this site is ringing a bell, you’re probably thinking about a similar project called Astronaut from 2017. It had a similar idea to IMG_0001 where you watch original filename videos; however, Astronaut focused on videos that could be newly uploaded (with low view counts) and only showed small portions of each one unless you intervened. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, …

YouTube’s missing hits will come back now that it has a deal with SESAC

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YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs that were removed over the weekend. Many hit songs from artists such as Adele, Nirvana, and others disappeared, which YouTube blamed on the lack of an agreement to renew its existing deal. SESAC stands for the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers, and its website says that it “currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers.” “We’re pleased that SESAC reconsidered our offer. We’ve reached a deal and content will come back up shortly,” YouTube’s global communications and public affairs rep Mariana De Felice tells The Verge. The terms of the agreement, including how long it will last, were not disclosed. A post by @TeamYouTube on X confirmed that songs in the US were affected for both YouTube generally and on YouTube Music and said that they will be restored “over the next day or two.” Source link

YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps

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YouTube is bringing its ad blocker fight to mobile. In an update on Monday, YouTube writes that users accessing videos through a third-party ad blocking app may encounter buffering issues or see an error message that reads, “The following content is not available on this app.” Last year, YouTube “launched a global effort” to encourage users to allow ads while watching videos or upgrade to YouTube Premium. It also began disabling videos for users with an ad blocking extension enabled. But now, YouTube says its policies don’t allow “third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership.” This appears to target mobile ad blockers like AdGuard, which lets you open YouTube within the ad blocking app, where you’ll get to view videos interruption-free. “We only allow third-party apps to use our API when they follow our API Services Terms of Service,” YouTube says. “When we find an app that violates these terms, we will take appropriate action to protect our platform, creators, and viewers.” To get around this, YouTube …

YouTube’s Picture-in-Picture Mode Could Be Available for Non-Premium Users Outside the US Soon

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YouTube started rolling out its PiP (Picture-in-Picture) feature for a wider audience back in 2021. This popular feature of the video streaming app allows users to watch videos while accessing other apps on their device. YouTube users in markets outside the US require a Premium subscription to access the PiP functionality. But this could change in the future as multiple posts on social media platforms indicate that non-premium users in Europe are currently getting access to YouTube’s PiP functionality. Multiple threads on Reddit suggest that YouTube is rolling out PiP mode for non-subscribers outside the US. The posts include videos of the feature to add credibility to the claims, showing a mini-player in a floating window for music videos while using other apps on their devices. Users largely from the Europe region seem to have spotted the PiP feature on their devices. YouTube is yet to reveal plans to expand PiP to non-subscribers outside the US. So, this information should be considered with a pinch of salt. Google is speculated to be testing PiP with …