YouTube’s leading position among online video services is simply indisputable. In the nearly 20 years since its inception, and especially since Google acquired the service in 2006 (just a year and a half after its inception), the platform has gone from niche to niche to an immense repository of all types. content, with some data to help us understand the extent of its reach.

According to data collected by SimilarWeb, ANDouTube is the second most visited website worldwide, only behind the Google search engine and of course well above the positions of content services, whether free or paid, which we can understand as its main competitors. And that too without taking into account access from other sources, which are not taken into account when making these estimates.

One of the many keys to his success is that Google tries to make its reach as wide as possibleThis means that virtually any type of device has at least one “door” that allows access to its contents. However, it happens that differences in sizes, resolutions, form factors and so on prevent us from offering a universal interface. And although they try to at least partially unify them, sometimes some elements work better on some screens than on others. This is generally why we encounter element changes in interfaces.

So it is, as we can read on the official blog of the service, and that’s all Google is going to update the YouTube interface on TVs to improve the display of information about the video we are watching. Until now, when clicking on the name of a video in the TV interface, a tab with information about it was displayed on the right side, covering part of the video. However, with this change, access to this information will reduce the size of the video, so we will still be able to view it normally while reviewing your information.

This change is without a doubt an exercise in adapting to the content consumption model in which the user increasingly wants to simultaneously watch the video and check information about it, read some comments, etc. In addition, even for those who are not too fond of this type of “multitasking”, but occasionally want to view the information in the video, it avoids the unpleasant feeling that the video they don’t see the whole thing.