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YouTube Music starts rolling out today. 6 reasons you’re gonna like it

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Last week we announced the new YouTube Music. Today, we’re excited to start rolling out early access of the new YouTube Music in the U.S., Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. To be the first to know when it’s available for you, head to music.youtube.com/coming-soon.

It’s ALL here. Not just music videos, but official albums, singles, remixes, live performances, covers and hard-to-find music you can only get on YouTube.

Recommendations built for you. A home screen that dynamically adapts to provide recommendations based on what you’ve played before, where you are and what you’re doing. At the gym workin’ on that fitness? Escaping during your commute? The right music is right here, built just for you.

Thousands of playlists across any genre, mood or activity. Try “Blogged 50” to discover new music or “Indie Under Pressure” to get the heart rate going.

Smart search so we’ll find the song, even if you can’t remember what it’s called. “That rap song with flute”? We got you. You can also search by lyrics (even if they’re wrong). It’s “Starbucks lovers”, right?

The hottest videos. We’ll keep you on top of what’s hot! The hottest videos in the world right now are right there, on their own dedicated Hotlist screen. Today in the U.S., it features Anderson.Paak, Jessie Reyez, and G-Eazy.

No internet? No problem. Paid members can download music and listen ads-free and in the background. Plus, your Offline Mixtape automatically downloads songs you love just in case you forgot to.

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YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon to New Zealand.

Thursday, May 17, 2018

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A new music streaming service from YouTube

A reimagined mobile app and brand new desktop player that are designed for music.

YouTube Music has thousands of playlists, which also surface local Kiwi artists, the official versions of millions of songs, albums, artist radio and more, in addition to all the music videos people expect from YouTube.

Find more of the music you’re looking for, including from your favourite Kiwi artists

Remixes, covers, live versions as well as deep cuts you can’t find anywhere else – from the biggest artists in the world, your favourite local Kiwi artists, to the freshest voices breaking through.

New and iconic videos from God’s Plan and Havana to Thriller, Sledgehammer, and more.

YouTube Music search works even if fans don’t know exactly what they’re looking for … we’ll find it if they describe it (try “that hipster song with the whistling”) or give us some lyrics (try “I make money moves”).

Effortlessly discover new music and new Kiwi artists

YouTube Music’s personalised home screen dynamically adapts to provide recommendations based on people’s listening history, where they are and what they’re doing. At the airport? We’ll recommend something relaxing before the flight. Entering the gym? We’ll suggest some beats to get the heart-rate going.

Thousands of playlists built to help you discover new music. That means no matter what kind of music you like, where you are, what you’re doing, or what mood you’re in, you can easily find the right playlist for that moment.

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Posted by Elias Roman, Product Manager - YouTube Music, recently listened to In Due Time by Outkast

Introducing YouTube Premium

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Cobra KaiThe new YouTube Premium includes:

The new YouTube Music: ad-free, with background listening and downloads

More, bigger original series and movies

Ad-free, background play, and downloads across YouTube

YouTube Music

The new YouTube Music is a music streaming service that combines music listening with the magic of YouTube: making the world of music easier to explore and more personalised than ever. YouTube Music includes a reimagined mobile app and brand new desktop player that are designed for music.

YouTube Premium unlocks the full YouTube Music experience: ad-free music, background listening, and downloads.

YouTube Originals

With YouTube Premium, you’ll get access to the full slate of YouTube Originals, including recent hits like the Karate Kid-inspired series, Cobra Kai, the dance drama, Step Up: High Water, and upcoming series like the sci-fi thriller, Impulse, and Liza Koshy's Liza on Demand.

More new Originals from around the globe are on the way—featuring comedies, dramas, reality series and action adventure shows from the U.K., Germany, France, Mexico, and more.

Ad-free, background play, and downloads across YouTube

YouTube Premium will continue to provide an ad-free experience, background play, and downloads across the millions of videos on YouTube, which simultaneously supports our incredible creators and artists.

Pricing and Availability

YouTube Premium rolls out soon in existing markets: the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and South Korea*. It’s also coming soon to new markets: Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. We look forward to more expansion throughout 2018 and beyond.

YouTube Premium will be available for NZ$15.99 per month or you can unlock the full experience of the new YouTube Music by itself with Music Premium for NZ$12.99 per month.

When YouTube Premium launches, YouTube Red members will automatically receive access at their current price. In countries where YouTube Red is currently available, a new member can also secure this price ($12.99 in New Zealand) by joining now at youtube.com/red.**

*South Korea will only offer YouTube Premium at the current price of YouTube Red. **If that price changes in the future, we will give plenty of notice.

Our preparations for Europe’s new data protection law

Monday, May 14, 2018

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Use Activity Controls to choose what activity is saved to your Google Account. We provide simple on/off switches to control Location History, Web and App Activity, YouTube Search History and more, across all devices that are signed in to your account.

View or delete data—including search history, location history, browsing history—from our services using My Activity. To make it easier to browse your past online activity, we have given you tools to search by topic, date, and product. You can permanently delete specific activities, entire days or weeks of activity that you don’t want associated with your account.

Take a Security Checkup or Privacy Checkup to reassure yourself that your account is secure, and that your privacy settings work for you. We’ve recently added an option that allows you to subscribe to more frequent prompts to take the Privacy Checkup.

Manage or mute the ads you see on Google, on websites and in apps using the recently upgraded Ads Settings tool and Mute This Ad control. We have provided more information about how and why certain ads are personalized, and will also be further simplifying the look and feel of these tools in the coming months.

Get a clear overview of all the Google products that you use—and the data associated with them—via Google Dashboard. We’ve recently made the Dashboard more mobile-friendly so it's now easy to use across different devices.

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Promoting pride and respect with machine learning

Friday, February 16, 2018

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Project Respect invites people to write a statement about themselves or LGBTQI+ people that they love and respect, to help reclaim positive identity labels.

Perspective

Perspective is an early-stage technology that uses machine learning to help identify toxic comments.

herePosted by Sam Thomson, Cloud Sales, New Zealand

Back to school with Google for Education

Friday, February 2, 2018

As the 2018 school year kicks off we’re counting down some of last year’s education highlights

Educators were empowered to teach digital skills, with new professional development programs and resources. We awarded 22 Computer Science for High Schools (CS4HS) grants in Australia and 5 CS4HS grants in New Zealand and launched Careers with Code 2017 to every high school in Australia and New Zealand. We also saw 20,000 teachers enroll in the CSER MOOCs.

In New Zealand, we worked with the government to implement the digital technologies curriculum and hosted a ceremony for recent graduates of Manaiakalani Digital Teaching Academy - a program which provides new teachers with a year of teaching and training in a full immersion digital environment.

Online safety is front and centre for students, parents and teachers and we supported partners to develop online wellbeing programs for young people, including Project Rockit TV; a series of short videos addressing issues such as bullying and online behaviour. Kiwi students also had access to an online cyber bullying quiz to gain their digital license with the launch of the program in New Zealand, while the Generation Next seminar series and accompanying YouTube channel provided resources to empower students as ambassadors for mental health and wellbeing within their schools.

Schools told us that they wanted to learn more about Google’s education tools, so we visited classrooms from Bendigo to Rotorua during the Google Reimagining Education with Technology tour across 12 locations. Thousands of educators shared and learned together at Education On Air and EduTECH.

Last but not least, Chromebooks arrived in more classrooms, helping students access learning opportunities and supporting innovative teaching approaches. In New Zealand, Chromebooks were named as the number one selling education device in schools, while in Australia, all secondary students across Canberra Public Schools will receive a Chromebook, starting in Term 1 2018. Globally, more than 25 million students are using Chromebooks and over 30 million teachers and students use Google Classroom.

There goes the school bell!

Posted by Suan Yeo, Head of Education, Google Australia and New Zealand

Year in Search: The moments that defined 2017 in New Zealand

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Kiwis searched for slime, sport and spaghetti bolognese in 2017On top of the worldDemocracy and disasters
Politicians and other public figures
Honouring the departed
How do you make slime, anyway?
Meat makes a comeback
Overall searches

Lotto result NZ

America's Cup 2017

Fidget spinner

Election NZ 2017

NZTA road closures

Cyclone Cook

All Blacks vs Lions

Melbourne Cup 2017

North Korea

Daylight savings 2017

News

Election NZ 2017

NZTA road closures

Cyclone Cook

North Korea

Hurricane Irma

Christchurch fire

New Zealand flooding

London fire

UK election

Cyclone Debbie

Global People

Harvey Weinstein

Ed Sheeran

Bruce Springsteen

Pippa Middleton

Kevin Spacey

Gal Gadot

Floyd Mayweather

Jake Paul

David Cassidy

Bruno Mars

Kiwis

Jacinda Ardern

Winston Peters

Bill English

Jerome Kaino

Peter Burling

Jaylene Cook

Clarke Gayford

Sione Lauaki

Metiria Turei

Todd Barclay

Loss

Tom Petty

Chester Bennington

Tania Dalton

Hugh Hefner

Bill Paxton

Carissa Avison

Rich Piana

John Clarke

John Hurt

Dan Vickerman

Sporting events

America's Cup 2017

All Blacks vs Lions

Melbourne Cup 2017

Wimbledon 2017

World Masters Games

Bathurst 2017

Rugby League World Cup

Mayweather vs McGregor

US Open 2017 tennis

Australian Open 2017

How to…?

How to make slime

How to vote in NZ

How to make a fidget spinner

How to make slime without borax

How to make fluffy slime

How to delete Instagram accounts

How to make slime without glue

How to lose weight

How to draw a dragon

How to cook pork belly

What is…?

What is Black Friday 2017

What is typhoid

What is bitcoin

What is kimchi

What is the time

What is a fidget spinner

What is botulism

What is borax

What is a cyclone

What is MSG

Recipes

Hot cross buns

Beef stroganoff

Pikelets

Spaghetti bolognese

Yorkshire pudding

Pancakes

Pulled pork

Slime

Anzac biscuits

Lamb shanks

To rediscover the events, people and topics that defined 2017 around the world, watch our video here.

Posted by Camilla Ibrahim, Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Google Australia and New Zealand
* Trending Searches: What was hot in 2017? The "trending" queries are the searches that had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2017 as compared to 2016.

Calling for 2018 CS Educator Grant applications

Monday, December 11, 2017

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New Zealand Association for Computing, Digital and Information Technology Teachers

CS Professional Development hubs were created in the North and South Islands of New Zealand with the help of a CS educator grant

Posted by Sally-Ann Williams, community and engineering outreach manager, Google New Zealand

Te reo, Tricks and Tweets: What kept Kiwis watching in 2017

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

2017 was the year Kiwis embraced te reo, applauded homegrown comedy and danced to the dulcet tones of Ed Sheeran. From ping pong to memes to making light of mean tweets, Kiwis looked to laugh, play and jam all year long. As we wind down the year, it’s time to sit back and celebrate the videos that defined 2017. #YouTubeRewind is our annual roundup of the YouTube videos that trended over the last 12 months, according to time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.
New Zealand’s Top Trending Videos of 2017
For the first time, two of New Zealand’s top 10 videos of the year were in te reo Māori: Maimoa Music’s hit single Wairua and a cover of the classic waiata Tiaho mai rā by Jessica & Tiana Waru. Kiwi comedians Jono and Ben made the top trending list with their satirical take on the viral kids interrupting BBC interview clip. Our love of singing in cars continued in 2017, including a take on Tennessee Whiskey, and James Corden’s phenomenally popular Carpool Karaoke series. Along the way we also celebrated an extraordinary ping pong trick victory, marvelled at a ventriloquist – and joined in on political mash-ups.

WAIRUA - Maimoa

Ed Sheeran Carpool Karaoke

Ping Pong Trick Shots 3 | Dude Perfect

"INAUGURATION DAY" — A Bad Lip Reading of Donald Trump's Inauguration

tennessee whiskey amazing cover!!!!

Woman interrupted during BBC interview

Celebrities Read Mean Tweets #11

Darci Lynne: 12-Year-Old Singing Ventriloquist Gets Golden Buzzer - America's Got Talent 2017

Jessica & Tiana Waru - Tiaho mai ra [Laughs & Jams]

ED SHEERAN - Shape Of You | Kyle Hanagami Choreography

New Zealand’s Top Trending Music Videos
Our list of top 10 music videos for 2017 is a mix of mega hits and pop classics. We were clearly hooked on Ed Sheeran, with ‘Shape of You’ making two appearances in the top trending music list. From the breezy island beats of Luis Fonsi’s Despacito to Taylor Swift’s self referential Look What You Made Me Do, Kiwis kept the volume up and the music playing on YouTube throughout the year.

Ed Sheeran - Shape of You [Official Video]

Bruno Mars - That’s What I Like [Official Video]

DJ Khaled - I'm the One ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne

Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.

DJ Khaled - Wild Thoughts ft. Rihanna, Bryson Tiller

Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee

Jason Derulo - Swalla (feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign) (Official Music Video)

Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do

The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This (Lyric)

Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You [Official Lyric Video]

New Zealand’s Top Emerging Channels
For the first time, #YouTubeRewind also examined the growth of local channels to unearth the top 10 Trending Kiwi YouTube Creators for 2017. Up and coming Kiwi YouTube channels in 2017 included a bunch of serious console and PC gamers, music and crafts to keep the little ones happy. It also includes a rundown of the coolest smartphones and tech gadgets on the market, and some hilarious recorder music fails.

DISNEY BRILLIANT COLORING BOOK CHANNEL FOR KIDS

Baby Beavers - Toddler Learning Toys & Songs

Tech Best

Rec0rder Mast3r

Stay tuned to see the YouTube’s Rewind video, celebrating the top memes and moments of the year from around the world! Posted by Camilla Ibrahim, Communications & Public Affairs Manager, YouTube Australia and New Zealand

Expanding our work against abuse of our platform

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

More people reviewing more contentTackling issues at scale

Since June we have removed over 150,000 videos for violent extremism.

Machine learning is helping our human reviewers remove nearly five times as many videos than they were previously.

Today, 98 percent of the videos we remove for violent extremism are flagged by our machine-learning algorithms.

Our advances in machine learning let us now take down nearly 70 percent of violent extremist content within eight hours of upload and nearly half of it in two hours and we continue to accelerate that speed.

Since we started using machine learning to flag violent and extremist content in June, the technology has reviewed and flagged content that would have taken 180,000 people working 40 hours a week to assess.

child safetyGreater transparencyCommunity GuidelinesA new approach to advertising on YouTube
Posted by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube

New Zealand Blog

YouTube Music starts rolling out today. 6 reasons you’re gonna like it

YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon to New Zealand.

Introducing YouTube Premium

Our preparations for Europe’s new data protection law

Promoting pride and respect with machine learning

Back to school with Google for Education

Year in Search: The moments that defined 2017 in New Zealand

Calling for 2018 CS Educator Grant applications

Te reo, Tricks and Tweets: What kept Kiwis watching in 2017

Expanding our work against abuse of our platform

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