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YouTube is testing a floating ‘Play something’ button

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Summary
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63% Informative

YouTube is testing a new floating “Play something” button that will pick a video for you.

The button floats just above the bottom bar of the app, and when tapped, it picks a YouTube video to play.

The new button reportedly uses the portrait-oriented YouTube Shorts player to show videos, regardless of whether they're vertically formatted Shorts or standard YouTube videos.

VR Score

41

Informative language

28

Neutral language

24

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

50

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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