YouTube telephone app can now hook up with your TV

As teased by Sundar Pichai in April, the YouTube app in your telephone will quickly function a related, second-screen expertise for movies enjoying in your TV.

Related (good) televisions are an more and more large manner that folks devour YouTube. Over 700 million hours of YouTube content material (as of January 2022) is consumed on TVs day by day. As such, Google got down to make that large display expertise as feature-rich as attainable and located that the telephone — which individuals are already utilizing whereas watching — is the very best resolution.

Early on, we honed in on an attention-grabbing perception — over 80% of individuals stated they use one other digital machine whereas watching TV. Once we dug into this additional, we observed that folks weren’t solely concurrently opening the YouTube cellular app, however have been additionally participating with the video (e.g. liking, subscribing) through their telephones — all whereas enjoying the identical video on the TV.

YouTube is making the telephone — its cellular app particularly — “more deeply connected to the TV experience overall.” When each the YouTube app in your tv and Android/iOS app are signed into the identical account, a blue “Connect” button will robotically seem.

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As soon as synced, you’ll be able to simply learn video descriptions, depart feedback, share, or assist creators by sending a Tremendous Chat or turning into a paid member.

This function is rolling out beginning at the moment, and YouTube is already exploring what different related phone-TV experiences it is going to permits. One chance is “browsing and shopping for products featured in videos – directly to the big screen to help you decide when to pick up your phone and engage.”