The Google Play Store these days acquired the much-a Material Theme treatment, swapping out the signature inexperienced for an all-white UI and squircle icons. Well, an eye-blinding white theme has already emerge as a nuisance for many customers – waiting for dark mode to roll out faster than later. But, the Play Store will further the annoyance with auto-playing promo videos.
On its Play Console help page, Google reveals, “Beginning September 2019, Google Play will start autoplaying keep record movies to help extra users find out your content material at a glance.” It then talks about auto-playing promos announcing that you would need to flip off monetization for these videos. This would ensure that customers do not see commercials proper before your promo video. It may want to confuse users about which product or app is being marketed.
It means if you have delivered a promo video, which is uploaded to YouTube, for an app on the Play Store then you will now see the video start taking part in the moment you open up its app page. This should get really traumatic for some users however the video playback will most likely be muted and shouldn’t affect the consumer experience. It will, however, add to the facts rate on your smartphone.
Google is but to launch an respectable assertion on auto-playing video promos on the Play Store, which will go live in the coming month. We expect the enterprise to add a toggle which allows users to disable this function – if not at launch then down the road. What are your opinions on auto-playing videos? Tell us in the feedback below.
