Google will now turn off the direct webcam video uploads in YouTube starting January 16, 2016 for some reasons.
According to Tubefilter, YouTube opted to decrease the support for webcams which was previously allowed before for some users who wanted to share their lives in cams. However, due to the technological improvements where the people could enjoy utmost convenience in using other medium to record videos in high quality, Google decided to shut the direct upload feature to users in 2016.
It does not mean that the users can no longer upload any single video online, they still can. They just need to do it externally. That means, they need to use a medium like video cam or phone cam and upload video file to YouTube. So, webcams for uploading are no longer acceptable. Users should invest on real cameras so viewers will appreciate the high quality videos uploaded.
"When the time comes, users will need to first save footage on their computer or mobile device before uploading via the web or YouTube apps for Android and iOS," Engadget stated.
Tubefilter added that part of Google's decision to update YouTube to adapt the HTML5 resulted to deleting outdated technology like Flash whicn YouTube dropped as its default player. This update led them to the decision to shut down direct video uploads feature because these will be "no longer supported."
Moreover, using webcams for uploading videos in YouTube is already rarely use so shutting it does not really affect users since most of them are using their own real cameras as their external device. So, in general, they should not be worry about these changes as this is only applicable to webcam uploads not to all types of video uploads.