YouTube TV simply received its first Technical Emmy award for its “Views” suite of options, which lets customers entry sports activities highlights, key performs, participant stats and recreation scores. On the 74th annual Know-how & Engineering Emmy Awards final evening, YouTube TV was declared the winner for the class “AI-ML Curation of Sports activities Highlights.”

“Thanks to the Academy for this recognition to Google. That is YouTube TV’s first ever Know-how & Engineering Emmy Award, and we couldn’t be extra pleased with our workforce’s work on delivering Views for our members,” Kathryn Cochrane, YouTube TV’s group challenge supervisor, wrote in an organization weblog put up.

The tech firm additionally introduced at the moment that Key Performs reached a notable milestone — the function was utilized in over 10 million watch classes on the platform. Final 12 months, viewers used key performs probably the most through the World Cup, common season NFL video games and Premier League matches.

The Key Performs view tracks essential performs in a recreation. Customers can faucet on the performs to rewatch when it happens within the recreation. That is useful for customers that missed a stay recreation and need to make amends for key moments.

“Views got here out of a workforce brainstorm about 5 years in the past and launched a few 12 months after YouTube TV,” Cochrane added. “A whole lot of our viewers are devoted sports activities followers, and we discovered that after they watch sports activities, they aren’t simply taking a look at what’s on the large display. They have been additionally actively on their telephones, discovering extra particulars comparable to stats for his or her fantasy soccer league, updates from different video games, and extra, all to boost what they have been already watching.”

When YouTube TV launched Views in 2018, it was solely obtainable for baseball, basketball, soccer and hockey. Soccer and golf have been added in a while. The suite of options was additionally initially restricted to telephones and tablets.

At present, the function is accessible throughout the YouTube TV app throughout good TVs and cellular units.

Along with Stats, Key Performs and Scores View, there’s additionally Fantasy Soccer View, which is a mobile-only function and lets customers hyperlink their present fantasy soccer account. That means, when a consumer is watching NFL video games on YouTube TV, the function permits them to see how their workforce is performing in actual time.

Plus, there’s a “Leap to” operate for customers to shortly entry a phase they need to view, which is very helpful for tennis followers and for customers watching the Olympics.

Lately, YouTube TV launched a multiview feature for sports activities followers to observe 4 video games directly. Nevertheless, the function is at the moment obtainable to pick out customers within the U.S.