YouTube TV simply gained its first-ever Technical Emmy award for its “Views” suite of options, which let customers entry sports activities highlights, key performs, participant stats and recreation scores. On the 74th annual Know-how & Engineering Emmy Awards final night time, YouTube TV was declared the winner for the class “AI-ML Curation of Sports activities Highlights.”
“Thanks to the Academy for this recognition to Google. That is YouTube TV’s first ever Know-how & Engineering Emmy Award, and we couldn’t be extra pleased with our workforce’s work on delivering Views for our members,” Kathryn Cochrane, YouTube TV’s group undertaking supervisor, wrote in an organization weblog publish.
The tech firm additionally introduced immediately that Key Performs reached a notable milestone—the characteristic was utilized in over 10 million watch classes on the platform. Final 12 months, viewers used key performs probably the most through the World Cup, common season NFL video games and Premier League matches.
The Key Performs view tracks vital performs in a recreation. Customers can faucet on the performs to rewatch when it happens within the recreation. That is useful for customers that missed a stay recreation and need to make amends for key moments.
“Views got here out of a workforce brainstorm about 5 years in the past and launched a couple of 12 months after YouTube TV,” Cochrane added. “A whole lot of our viewers are devoted sports activities followers, and we discovered that once they watch sports activities, they aren’t simply what’s on the large display. They had been additionally actively on their telephones, discovering extra particulars corresponding to stats for his or her fantasy soccer league, updates from different video games, and extra, all to boost what they had been already watching.”
When YouTube TV launched Views in 2018, it was solely out there for baseball, basketball, soccer and hockey. Soccer and golf had been added in a while. The suite of options was additionally initially restricted to telephones and tablets.
As we speak, the characteristic is on the market inside the YouTube TV app throughout sensible TVs and cellular gadgets.
Along with Stats, Key Performs, and Scores View, there’s additionally Fantasy Soccer View, which is a mobile-only characteristic and lets customers hyperlink their present fantasy soccer account. That approach, when a consumer is watching NFL video games on YouTube TV, the characteristic permits them to see how their workforce is performing in actual time.
Plus, there’s a “Soar to” perform for customers to shortly entry a section they need to view, which is very useful for tennis followers and for customers watching the Olympics.
Not too long ago, YouTube TV launched a multiview characteristic for sports activities followers to look at 4 video games directly. Nevertheless, the characteristic is presently out there to pick out customers within the U.S.