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 […]
Author: Daniel Payne
I'm Daniel Payne. I've been a freelance writer, video, and web guy since 1988. My passion is technology, from the latest cameras to cutting edge ways the internet is used to improve medicine. I write for Internet News Flash and am helping with the online resurrection of Digital Content Creators Magazine
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 […]
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 […]
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 Doesn’t Radicalize People and Video Games Don’t Create Murderers
The idea that the YouTube algorithm “radicalizes” people always sounded a bit off, but data keeps showing the idea is probably bullshit. A study published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), one of the three most prestigious general-science journals, says little to […]
‘Metaverse’ The Modern-day ‘Utopia’
Yesterday, Facebook’s announcement of a restructure and new parent company, ‘Meta’, caused no shortage of headlines and stupid predictions; Often made by people with the singular goal of gaining fleeting attention. Those people were and are mirroring the purpose of Facebook’s announcement. Facebook announced the name change following some of […]
YouTube Wants To Leave Roku. Congress May Stop Them.
I’ve written it before, Roku is a fantastic company. And while I’m not sure I’ve written it down, I have two deeply held beliefs: the U.S. government will be performative, and publicly traded companies will be cutthroat. “YouTube is leaving Roku. And now the fight between the two companies has caught […]
Virtual Experiences The New Reality
The last two years have been a whirlwind for everyone. I’m deeply empathetic to those who have lost someone, like me, been ill, or suffered economically. The last couple of years showed a massive cultural shift towards everything but the essentials taking place online. The new reality is virtual. Restaurants […]
YouTube Will Now Remove Videos Claiming Fraud Change Results Of The U.S. Presidential Election
YouTube will now remove videos containing election misinformation: The company says starting today it will, now remove misleading videos that claim widespread fraud or other errors changed the outcome of the US presidential election. This change comes now that “enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect.” […]
YouTube’s New Ad Policy Will Be A Win For Vimeo
YouTube will now run ads on channels outside of the Partner Program, and this spells like a win for Vimeo. YouTube’s change will expand ad their inventory by allowing ads to be served on any video on hosted the site (potentially, content guidelines will still exist). But the change will […]