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 […]
Author: DCC Mag Staff
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 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 […]
DCC Web Round Up – October 2021
Relentless ‘Facebook Papers’ Leaks Will Continue Until Morale Improves “The deluge of damning news stories about Facebook (now named Meta) is far from over. These stories were made possible thanks to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee who recently leaked thousands of internal documents, including internal employee discussions, memos, research, and presentations, to a consortium of […]
DaVinci Resolve 17.1 Will Run On Apple Chips
The DaVinci Resolve video editor will support Apple Silicon even before the first M1-powered Macs are shipped to customers next week. Blackmagic Design has pushed out an updated version of Resolve adding universal app support for Macs running Apple M1 processors. Resolve has long been known as a film industry-standard for […]
DCC Web Round Up – August 2019
Analyst Says Roku Will Climb To $4.5 Billion In Revenues By 2025 Ralph Schackart, an analyst at William Blair, says by 2025, the fast-growing TV player company, Roku will hit $4.5 billion in annual revenue. He says 90% of revenue will come from U.S. business. Full Story New supercomputer Will […]
DCC Web Round Up – July 2019
Is Netflix Overvalued? Netflix missed subscriber growth estimates in Q2, but Dilantha De Silva of Seeking Alpha argues that investors have many bigger problems to focus on. Citing the companies Debt to equity, quarterly cash expenditure on streaming content and new competition. Full Story YouTube Creators Looking for New Ways to Earn. Speaking to CNN Business […]
Speeding Down the Highway to a Digital Era
Did you realize that 33 percent of all nonlinear editing done today is not bound for videotape? That’s right, and those figures are going to grow as Web streaming technology and bandwidth is improved. So, while we watch and are dazzled by the HDTV and digital television transformation, a more […]