YouTube brings cards format to in-video annotations

YouTube is introducing cards format for in-video annotations. Perhaps it harks to Google’s Material Design for its mobile platform but the move is said to help creators add more information about their content and the other things they offer. Plus, it works on both mobile and desktop, so you can share what you want on them. Right now, the six cards you can display include: Merchandise, Fundraising, Video, Playlist, Associated, Website, and Fan Funding. YouTube hopes this move will be able to replace annotations in the future.

Source: YouTube Creator Blog

Get a sneak peek of season 6 of ‘Community’

Waiting for the sixth season a.k.a. comeback of Community? Well, Yahoo released a teaser of it through Variety. The show was previously cancelled by NBC after its rocky run. But the fans wouldn’t hear any of this. That’s why Yahoo decided to pick it up and premiere it on their standalone streaming service, Yahoo Screen, on March 17 (today!).

The whole cast and creator Dan Harmon are back for this season and the series introduces two new cast members, too, in Paget Brewster and Keith David. There will be 13 episodes for the season and rumours are a movie is even in the works (but that isn’t confirmed). The great thing is you’ll be able to watch this for free. However, this comes at the price of having to sit through ads. You have to take what you can get then.

Source: Variety | Via: Netflixlife

Apple rumoured to be expanding iPhone trade-in program to other devices

Apple seems to be opening up its doors for its recycling/trade-in program, if reports are to be believed. According to 9to5Mac, Apple will allow non-Apple users to be part of its trade-in program. It will supposedly allow them to trade in their Android or BlackBerry devices for gift cards that can be used to buy iPhones. If true, the move is obviously to boost iPhone sales.

Apple retail staff are reportedly being trained to transfer contacts from Android or BlackBerry to iOS. But they won’t transfer anything else, so please back up those photos and other precious data you might have on your phones. The program is said to be arriving in the coming weeks.

Source: 9to5Mac

YouTube rumoured to be developing paid video subscription service

Hoping to take on the likes of Hulu and Vimeo, YouTube might be adding another paywall for its service. This time around, they’re focusing on a video on demand service. According to a report from Variety, this service will reportedly offer ad-free streaming of certain content, perhaps from some of the site’s biggest stars under its YouTube Originals umbrella. Not much is known about this report but the rumour started from an unnamed executive of a company that partners with YouTube to produce video content.

YouTube will neither confirm nor deny the report at the moment. But perhaps this is a way to help keep their creators in house and to help boost their bottom line.

Source: Variety + The Verge