YouTube Reportedly Working on New Education-Centric App in India - registerguried

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YouTube India plans to commit heavily in the education sector in the rural area with the launch of a new pedagogy app, according to reports today.

Additionally, YouTube also plans to rolling out the 'sponsor' clitoris to a wider range of Indian creators, and expand its Snapchat-like 'Stories' feature to all users, according to a recent report from Agent Daily.

The publication claims that the troupe's plans were first revealed past Gautam Anand, MD YouTube Asia Pacific, at a private result in Singapore earlier this calendar month.

One of the event attendees revealed that the company is "construction a big team for learning and teaching in Mumbai", however, a Google spokesperson declined to comment on the topic.

The publishing cites other sources World Health Organization lay claim that YouTube has seen "huge increment" in the education and DIY sector in Bharat imputable the low data tariffs. The growth is mainly driven by users in Tier-2, and Level-3 cities likewise every bit littler towns, World Health Organization watch videos to upskill themselves. In this regard, YouTube has plans to patronize a "select few content creators" to create more such cognitive content.

The company is likely to establish a standalone app for the education sphere, with the source claiming that:

"Learning is a category where serious people come to learn something, they are seeing a lot of drop slay because of ads or unrelated content which is wherefore they are thinking of launching a separate app".

Google is already focussed on India as a key growth market for education and learning, and had laid a Machine Learning workshop for Indian engineers and developers in Bangalore earlier this year. Course, a sacred educational activity or learning app will be more on the lines of something like Byju's The Learning App.

Besides Google, Trust is also sounding to disrupt the education and learning content market and recently invested in Embibe, an AI-based learning service that's along the same lines as Byju's. The company could introduce educational content through its app ecosystem for Jio subscribers.