YouTube is checking a drifting ‘Play something’ button
/ It’s generally the YouTube equivalent of Google’s ‘I’m feeling fortunate’ button.
By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the current in tech and home entertainment. He has actually composed news, evaluations, and more as a tech reporter because 2020.
Dec 29, 2024, 9:58 PM UTC
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YouTube is evaluating a brand-new drifting “Play something” button that will select a video for you, 9to5Google identified in the YouTube app for Android. The button drifts simply above the bottom bar of the app, and when tapped, it chooses a YouTube video to bet you.
Simply as in earlier variations of this function YouTube’s been screening, the brand-new button apparently utilizes the portrait-oriented YouTube Shorts gamer to reveal videos, no matter whether they’re vertically formatted Shorts or basic YouTube videos. Ideally that modifications by the time the function gets a large release.
Other versions the business has actually been evaluating for over a year consist of a “Play Something” banner and an easy button that appears like a black-and-white YouTube logo design. If the function’s name sounds familiar, possibly it’s since Netflix retired a comparable random video picker in 2015 called “Surprise Me,” which initially introduced in 2021 as “Play Something.”
