We can easily state that YouTube is THE most popular website in the whole Internet community, topped by Google and Facebook only. Statistics show about million subscriptions happening every day, followed by 800 million unique visitors every month; in the same month period, people spend 4 billion hours in front of their monitors watching YouTube, and 72 hours of footage is getting uploaded every minute. If you count all views until today, it turns out every individual tuned in 140 times to watch a video(s). And with the boring part long gone, here are few tips you can use to improve your watching experience on YouTube.
1. Watch videos in slow motion
Apparently, human (and cat) fails can be watched in slow motion too. Previously it was done with holding the space bar (which now brings you to the end of the comments page), and now with HTML 5 in the mix, all you have to do is click settings (gear icon), and choose your preferred video speed under the same drop-down menu. It’s kind of fun when you discover it, but it gets boring pretty quickly.2. Choose a specific playback point
Remember those fast-forwarding links creators or users sometimes put in order to save you from watching the whole video? Well, you can do those on your own: by adding/typing ‘#t=’ at the end of a certain video URL address, then followed by the preferable minute (‘m’) and second (‘s’) you will skip the parts you don’t feel like watching. For example, to jump at 6:13 in the video, you have to type ‘#t=06m13s’. In addition, pausing the video, right-clicking on it and selecting ‘get video URL at current time’ from the drop down menu will provide the same outcome. It also works on embedded videos.3. Make use of YouTube’s ‘Lean Back’
It’s exactly what it states – a YouTube feature enabling a full TV experience by implementing only your keyboard for searching videos. Its interface closely resembles that of the infamous Windows 8 dumbed down interface (for obvious ‘new generation’ users) and all you have to do is lean back, press some arrows and hope for the best videos to magically pop up on your screen.4. Compare your load speed
If you find yourself constantly complaining about YouTube videos not loading fast enough on your machine, maybe it’s time to try the ‘Google Video Quality Report’. Also, you can increase your knowledge by clicking any tab aside ‘Your Results’, named ‘How Videos Get to You’ and ‘A Faster Web’. Technology can’t get more interesting than that!
5. Customize your ad experience
We’re sure by now Google has pretty much ‘drained’ everything there is to know about your custom preferences, ads not excluded. On the bright side, the company is kind enough to let you choose your preferred annoyances over other paid annoyances (that’s how business works, dummy!). Head to Google Ads Setting and choose your language, interests, advertisement campaigns you’ve blocked, opt-out settings and more for future advertisement galore.
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