10Yetis - Weekly Dose of Social - YouTube & Netflix updates, Flickr Pro & Selfie stick bans

Hey folks, it's Friday which means it's time for another weekly dose of social media news! We're looking at the newest YouTube and Netflix updates as well as Flickr subscription news, and a few fun stories too.

YouTube have added a brand new mobile app update which will make viewing and uploading easier. The redesign makes three main tabs a feature on the home page. These are, Home, Subscriptions and Account, these are fairly self-explanatory. Home is a feed of recommended videos along with playlists suggested based on your watch history. The Subscriptions tab shows you all the latest uploads from all of your subscribed channels; you can also easily turn on notifications from these subscriptions so you will know as soon as a new video is uploaded. Finally, the Account tab allows you to view any activity associated with your account such as your viewing history and your own uploads.

Another update that has been added is the ability to view vertically shot videos in portrait full screen. this update has been a long time coming, with many forums having discussed this feature since the YouTube app came to mobile. Finally, there has been a great new update to the video upload tool on mobile. It gives you the ability to add extra creativity to your videos with editing tools to trim footage down, the option of adding cinematic filters to the footage and also adding music to the clip. This is all done natively within the app!

Netflix is getting an update for its TV apps. This is very exciting since their last update was all the way back in late 2013! The update now means that if you select a an episode of TV you will see a short clip of the episode play in the background so it can help you determine if you've already seen the episode, or if the episode is one you'd like to watch. The clip will play in the background whilst the menu and programme information is displayed over the top. I imagine this will be true for films as well, we'll just have to hope that Netflix doesn't pick any scenes which will lead to big spoilers within the film! This feature started rolling out on Thursday and is hitting eligible devices globally.

Flickr have just announced that they are bringing their Pro subscription service back to the site. The Pro subscription was disbanded in spring 2013 when Yahoo was going through some changes, they changed their subscription model and said that the 'Pro' subscription had not been performing well enough to keep it going. It seems like the Pro subscription has relaunched mainly because of increasing competition from start-ups offering similar features and aimed at professional photographers.

Yahoo say that the pro membership will give access to improved statistics and analytics, as well as removing adverts from their accounts and adding a pro badge to the account too. To keep things sweet Flickr are offering additional discounts for those that sign up to the pro account. this includes 20% off Adobe creative cloud suite as well as free shipping on Flickr merchandise. The Pro subscription will cost $49.99 for a yearly subscription, alternatively you can opt to pay monthly which costs $5.99.

Hot on the tails of Disneyland, Six Flags have banned selfie sticks from their theme parks worldwide. The ban has been implemented because of their worry for guests' safety. Though Disneyland were a little lenient on their restrictions; by still allowing monopods and non-professional tripods, Six Flags are not impressed with the idea of any camera-holding device. It looks like the death of selfie stick is coming!

Daisies have been driving the internet wild this week as a photograph alleged to be taken on the site of the Fukishima disaster in Japan emerged online and started to spread amongst Social Media sites as well as new websites. The photograph shows a picture of some strangely deformed daisies which many believe to be the effect of the nuclear meltdown. The photo has since been question by many, not of it's authenticity but of the fact that it may not be the fallout that had caused the daisies to grow as they do in the photograph. It's been suggested that it's in fact 'fasciation' which is a mutation which can be caused by a number of different factors such as insects, animals and weather.