YouTube has come a long way since someone uploading a 596.5 Hours YouTube video made headlines more than ten years ago. The mostly user-generated streaming service with over 122 million daily active users is now a powerhouse for advertisers. YouTube is now bringing more e-commerce elements to the platform with direct shopping […]
Musk Buying Twitter Probably Will Not Impact Creators
Musk has taken hulking loans from banks offering as collateral his Tesla shares. Some of these loans have interest rates as high as $1 billion per year. So world’s richest man or not he’ll need the social network to print money. Marketers are somewhat skeptical that Twitter ads could make more […]
Netflix Lost Subscribers, And Signals A Shift Towards A Being More Traditional Media Company
A few days ago Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in over a decade. The stock price took a 25% dive, that hasn’t yet recovered. The company only lost 200K subscribers, but the image of an undefeatable Goliath was shattered for many investors. For reasons unclear to me, many viewed […]
YouTube Is Changing Music
Editors Note: This post was originally published in 2019 on ZminSoft.com, a now defuncted music software review site. We are syndicating the post here to keep it online. According to NPR, back in 2017 people watched a billion hours of video every day on YouTube. That’s a lot of videos. […]
Like Music, YouTube Seeks To Make Podcasts Easier To Distribute And Less Open
I stumbled across an article about how YouTube changed music consumption. It appeared that an archivist tossed some blogposts from a defunct website up on Medium, but the writing is worth the read. The key takeaways were: YouTube is a music player, used the same way as other streaming services, even […]
Roundup: Vimeo Is Now All Corporate
As DCCMag said nearly two years ago, when Vimeo raised $150 million in equity funding, the final transition from independent filmmaker hub to B2B SaaS hosting product was coming up fast. Well a week ago, the final nail was put in the coffin of what Vimeo once was, as a […]
A Simple Website Is A Happy Website
People will forgive a lot, but slow sites speed tends not to be overlooked by humans or search engine crawlers. It doesn’t matter if most of your traffic is from desktop browsers; in September 2020, Google switched fully to mobile-first indexing. It’s worth noting every update Google (no matter how much AI […]
Moderator For TikTok Sues The Company For Mental Trauma
Content moderation is nearly impossible at scale, and social media companies rely on people to review content, when AI cannot succeed. Facebook moderators, have already gotten a fair amount of media attention for being traumatized by the images of hate and violence they see in their jobs. Now, Candie Frazier, […]
YouTube Cofounder Dislikes Not Having A Dislike Button
Jawed Karim, a cofounder of YouTube, is as displeased as everyone else with the removal of the dislike button. Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube titled Me at the zoo back on April 23, 2005. The description is now a six-paragraph rant over this change ending with, “In business, there’s only one […]
YouTube Is Removing The Dislike Count From Videos: We Dislike This
YouTube will start hiding from public view the dislike count on all videos. The service will keep the thumbs-down button but the overall count showing how hated a video is will now be hidden. YouTube said in a blog post that “we experimented with the dislike button to see whether or not […]