- Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube has upped the content streaming experience by launching a picture-in-picture feature trial for its Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS YouTube app, 9 to 5 Google reports.
- The feature enables premium subscribers to view video content while using other apps. The PiP could soon make it to the iPhone and iPad apps.
- The manual feature presently restricted to YouTube Premium customers allows users to minimize YouTube’s viewing window into a mini player that sits atop other apps, Apple Insider reports.
- Google had launched the feature globally for paid users in June. It also aims to offer PiP’s ad version to free users in the U.S.
- Price Action: GOOG shares traded higher by 0.17% at $2,852.88 in the market session on the last check Wednesday.
Mid-Afternoon Market Update: CalAmp Drops After Q3 Results; Red Cat Holdings Shares Surge
Toward the end of trading Wednesday, the Dow traded up 0.51% to 35,674.84 while the NASDAQ rose 0.53% to 15,422.40. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.60% to 4,677.06.
