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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
YouTube’s Testing An Option to Reserve Ad Space Six Months in Advance
YouTube is reportedly testing letting advertisers reserve ad space up to six months in advance. This is likely most beneficial for organizations planning to tie into major events, like sporting championships, or elections. The new option surprisingly does not require a minimum ad buy. A report by the Wall Street Journal, says […]