Hey guys, Tim Schmoyer here from VideoCreatorsTV, and today,
I want tell you guys about something I read on the YouTube Blog.
It is that you can now turn your phone into a remote control for
YouTube, and I think a lot of us have probably already played
with this before.
We probably already know about that, but what I want to do is show you guys actually how
it works.
Now, this update that they're talking about is for LGs,
Panasonics, Sony televisions, Philips, Samsungs, Sharp, Toshibas,
basically like any HD TV that you might have.
If you update the YouTube on that smart TV, you can now just pair your phone
quickly and easily to your TV and just browse, like watch it on
your TV while you control it with your phone.
I'm going to show you guys how to do that.
Now, this app is for Android.
I'm going to talk specifically about Android and actually does
work a lot better on Android than it does on iOS or anything else
right now, but you can still do this.
We're going to go back here.
My TV is like right over there, and I'm going to show you
what that looks like for iOS.
So here's the Internet menu screen for my television.
I'm going to turn on YouTube.
Once the app has loaded, you can go up here, go up one to settings, and in
settings I've already signed in on my television using my YouTube
account, and you can see over here I've actually already paired
my iPhone to it.
I'm not going to do it again, but I can show you
do it basically.
First of all, you come here on your phone, and you're not going
to open up the YouTube app.
You're actually going to open up your browser.
I use Chrome here, and I'm already signed in, but
you would sign in and just go to like YouTube, you know, up here
at the top, sign in to your YouTube account, and then once that
is done on your log in to your YouTube account and your phone,
come over here to the television and you're going to go to pair a
device, tap that, and it will tell you to go to youtube.com/pair,
so I've already done that, but you're just going to type out up
here YouTube, like that, and that's where you would then pair
your phone.
You type in whatever number that's there, give your
phone a name and your TV a name and then it'll bring you bring
you back to here and say, okay you're paired.
Now, once your phone is paired, now all you do is you come
here on your phone and just browse YouTube like you normally
would, so I'm going to come here.
Oh, by the way, you see up here in the upper right
corner see that blue television icon.
That means that it's paired to your television.
You tap that, I have a Panasonic TV, that's what I named my TV, but if you don't
want to play it on your television, you can switch it back to
your phone, or I'm just going to cancel it, because I do want
to watch on my TV.
So, I'm going to browse here on the web site, and then I'll
probably go down here to my subscriptions, then go to uploads
only.
How about Shatards?
I'm going to go ahead and start playing this, and you'll see what happens
to the TV once I hit play here.
There it goes.
Now Shatards are on the TV and you can see it on my phone.
I can now look at other suggested videos.
I can look at comments.
I can type in a comment.
Let's turn them down a little bit.
You can type in my comments here.
It's really cool, because now I feel like I can interact on my
phone while watching it on my television.
But say while I'm watching them, like all right what do I want
to watch next, so I'm actually just going to hit the back button
a couple times and go back to my subscriptions.
Here we go, and maybe I want to watch some Ergo, so I'll come here, tap on
it, and I'll just add it to queue because I want to keep watching
this on the TV, you know, so I mean usually, so I'll click add
to queue and then I'll allow it to check.
It can go back again.
Let's load some more.
How about some epoddle, add him, add to queue, maybe my wife's
five-point Weight Watcher dinner that we did the other night,
I'll add that to queue, and then I'll come back.
Now I can just, you know, just keep browsing YouTube like
I normally would on my phone while kind of watching on my TV.
Anytime you hit these three lines in the upper right corner, then
I'll come here to my TV queue and I can see what I've got keyed
up ready to go.
I just want to skip ahead to my wife; I'll just
click play on there.
I really like this because I like that I can watch the
video on the big screen but continue to interact and engage, you
know.
I'll click on that here or tap, I should say, and I can
still reply to comments.
I can actually like scroll ahead, whoops.
I want to fast forward to jump ahead in the video, I can
do that.
You know, I can also share it/like it, which I probably
should like my wife's video.
There we go, and all that kind of stuff.
So this is basically how it works.
If you have any questions, comment below and I'll do my best
to answer them the best that I can.
Also put in the description **** below this video, the lengths where you can go, read
about this in more detail and see the whole announcement and
everything.
I think it's important for those of us who are video
creators to know about this and how this works for two reasons.
One, because it just makes your own viewing habits, you know,
much more enjoyable on your television, and then two, I think
it's important that we understand and know how our viewers, a lot
of them are consuming, how they're consuming our content, and how
they're interacting with it, how they're engaging, and sometimes
it makes a difference.
If we say, Hey comment below, you know, that usually
works, but like I'm some channels I'm a part of like 48 percent
of our views are mobile, so commenting below it's usually there
after holding their phone like one orientation, but, you know, it
makes a difference, so we need to know how our users are
experiencing our stuff on the platform of YouTube, so comment
below if you have any questions.
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Bye.