Forbidden in YouTube deal
12 years, 8 months ago

Forbidden in YouTube deal

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy YouTube has signed up the Aim-listed video-editing specialists Forbidden Technologies to help it cover the London Olympics. YouTube will use the company's FORscene software, which allows video to be edited as it arrives in real time, before preparing it for broadcast in high definition. Last year, the online video giant had more than one trillion views or around 140 views for every person on earth.

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YouTube tries new ways to stop people falling into negative ‘wormholes’
3 weeks, 1 day ago

YouTube tries new ways to stop people falling into negative ‘wormholes’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy YouTube is trying new ways to stop young people falling into harmful “wormholes”. …

For many viewers, YouTube is TV now. What that means for Hollywood
1 month, 1 week ago

For many viewers, YouTube is TV now. What that means for Hollywood

LA Times  

Netflix rightly gets a lot of the attention for winning the streaming wars, but that obscures the dominance of what is the leading online entertainment player for many viewers: YouTube. Streaming hours on YouTube, including the YouTube TV live television service, increased 27% in 2024, making it “by far the largest contributor to overall streaming growth” in the U.S., according …

YouTube at 20: The video platform transformed screen entertainment. Now it could change a lot more
1 month, 1 week ago

YouTube at 20: The video platform transformed screen entertainment. Now it could change a lot more

Salon  

The Peabody Awards recognized YouTube in 2008, a little over three years after Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim launched it on Feb. 14, 2005. I remember this because I was on the board that debated whether it was too early to award a website that, as former NBC anchor Brian Williams put it at that year’s Peabody ceremony, …

YouTube disruptions in Russia: Critics call it ‘deliberate’ attempt, Kremlin says Putin to look into speed issue
4 months, 1 week ago

YouTube disruptions in Russia: Critics call it ‘deliberate’ attempt, Kremlin says Putin to look into speed issue

Live Mint  

The country's top cinema official raised the matter of slow speeds and disruptions on YouTube in Russia, so President Vladimir Putin took the initiative and directed the Kremlin officials to look into it, reported Reuters on Friday. In the last few months, Russian internet monitoring services have reported mass outages of YouTube, an online video hosting service owned by Alphabet's …

YouTube's battle against ad blockers goes global: Key updates
1 year, 4 months ago

YouTube's battle against ad blockers goes global: Key updates

India TV News  

YouTube Ad Blockers: YouTube, a Google owned audio-video streaming platform, has increased its efforts to combat the use of ad blockers by users on its platform worldwide. More and more YouTube users are now encountering a warning message when they attempt to watch videos, prompting them to disable ad blockers or subscribe to YouTube Premium for $14 a month. The …

YouTube's latest policy update for fan channels: All you need to know
1 year, 9 months ago

YouTube's latest policy update for fan channels: All you need to know

India TV News  

Google-owned video-sharing platform, YouTube, has recently unveiled a new policy aimed at fan channels to protect the authenticity of content and prevent misleading practices. Starting from August 21, 2023, individuals operating fan channels on YouTube will be required to indicate in their channel name or handle that their content does not represent the original creator, artist, or entity. Moreover, channels …

YouTube suspends OAN after network shares fake coronavirus cure
4 years, 4 months ago

YouTube suspends OAN after network shares fake coronavirus cure

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “After careful review, we removed a video from …

YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown
4 years, 5 months ago

YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown

The Independent  

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Social media giants are unable to get rid of fake Coronavirus video: See what is it
4 years, 10 months ago

Social media giants are unable to get rid of fake Coronavirus video: See what is it

India TV News  

Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are finding it difficult to remove a coronavirus conspiracy video called Plandemic that has spread faster than the virus and can still be accessed on these platforms. The 26-minute video features a famous vaccine conspiracist who defy the advice of medical experts like saying that "sheltering in place harms consumers' immune systems …

YouTube to push more ads as video streaming increases amid COVID-19 lockdown
4 years, 10 months ago

YouTube to push more ads as video streaming increases amid COVID-19 lockdown

India TV News  

There's been an 800 per cent increase globally in the number of people watching ad-supported and purchased movies on the Google-owned YouTube, with 125 per cent jump in TV shows and 250 per cent growth in live content. While overall watch time has jumped 80 per cent in social distancing times, YouTube is seeing different user behaviour when people engage …

YouTube bans hacking videos; content creators puzzled
5 years, 8 months ago

YouTube bans hacking videos; content creators puzzled

India TV News  

YouTube's recent policy update has added a list of "harmful or dangerous content", including the addition of "instructional hacking and phishing" videos to the list and the changes have left content creators puzzled, the media has reported. Also, read:Redmi 7A set to launch in India today: Expected price and specifications The video-sharing platform has been facing flak for building a …

YouTube turns 14: A look at the many instances when YouTube got things wrong
6 years, 1 month ago

YouTube turns 14: A look at the many instances when YouTube got things wrong

Firstpost  

The past 14 years haven’t exactly been easy for YouTube. YouTube cut its ties with Logan and removed him from YouTube Red’s original series “Foursome.” As if this wasn’t enough, Logan Paul allegedly tried to monetise his apology video as well. Following a crackdown on inappropriate content on its platform, YouTube started demonetising ad revenues on many content creators’ videos. …

The Challenge of Making YouTube a Better Place
55 years, 2 months ago

The Challenge of Making YouTube a Better Place

Wired  

Susan Wojcicki has a difficult job. But the company she helms is very different than the YouTube that launched in 2005, when the mission was “Broadcast Yourself.” In recent years, and particularly since the 2016 election in the US, the service has found itself teeming with trolls and bad information. “It’s really valuable, but we have to marry that with …

YouTube streams 180 million hours of content to televisions every day
6 years, 8 months ago

YouTube streams 180 million hours of content to televisions every day

Firstpost  

Every day, over 60 million users click into or engage with YouTube Community posts. Over 1.9 billion users are logging into Google-owned YouTube each month and on average, users now watch over 180 million hours of YouTube on TV screens every day, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said. With the increasing penetration of smartphones, data becoming affordable and ever-growing availability …

YouTube to invest $25mn in countering fake news
6 years, 8 months ago

YouTube to invest $25mn in countering fake news

India TV News  

Video sharing platform YouTube has announced that it will invest $25 million to fight against fake news, especially for the urgent coverage of breaking news. YouTube, which is owned by Google, said on Monday that this investment will be part of the Google News Initiative, first introduced in March by the tech giant to help the media and to deal …

YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly views from registered users, which is a clear indicator of our toxic dependence on social media
6 years, 10 months ago

YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly views from registered users, which is a clear indicator of our toxic dependence on social media

Firstpost  

It is strange how even though problems with social media channels such as YouTube and Facebook are many, our toxic dependence on them remains ever strong. Google-owned YouTube ’s CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the video platform has 1.8 billion registered users viewing the channel every month. According to The Verge major milestones for YouTube were when it struck 41 …

WHAT HAS YOUTUBE DONE TO IMPROVE ITS MODERATION?
6 years, 11 months ago

WHAT HAS YOUTUBE DONE TO IMPROVE ITS MODERATION?

Daily Mail  

YouTube announced in December 2017 it would hire 10,000 extra human moderators people to monitor videos amid concerns too much offensive content was making it onto the site. ‘We will use our cutting-edge machine learning more widely to allow us to quickly remove content that violates our guidelines.’ Earlier this year, YouTube's parent company Google has announced that from February …

YouTube to hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent content, as well as disturbing videos targeting children
7 years, 3 months ago

YouTube to hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent content, as well as disturbing videos targeting children

Firstpost  

YouTube along with Facebook, Google and Twitter have come under scrutiny over the availability of terrorist material and propaganda on their platforms. YouTube will hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with curbing content that endangers children. In an interview to The Daily Telegraph, Susan Wojcicki, Chief Executive of the Google-owned …

YouTube stars that supported Donald Trump claim site is taking away their money and they'll quit
7 years, 7 months ago

YouTube stars that supported Donald Trump claim site is taking away their money and they'll quit

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. That’s according to Diamond and Silk, the YouTube stars that have given support to – and been …

Meet YouTube's Hidden Laborers Toiling to Keep Ads Off Hateful Videos
7 years, 11 months ago

Meet YouTube's Hidden Laborers Toiling to Keep Ads Off Hateful Videos

Wired  

Every day across the nation, people doing work for Google log on to their computers and start watching YouTube. They decide whether to classify clips as “offensive” or “sensitive.” They are Google’s so-called “ads quality raters,” temporary workers hired by outside agencies to render judgments machines still can't make all on their own. “I’m not saying this is the entire …

YouTube could lose up to $750m from advertisers' boycott over extremist content
7 years, 11 months ago

YouTube could lose up to $750m from advertisers' boycott over extremist content

The Independent  

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Google’s YouTube losing major advertisers upset with videos
8 years ago

Google’s YouTube losing major advertisers upset with videos

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — AT&T, Verizon and several other major advertisers are suspending their marketing campaigns on Google’s YouTube site after discovering their brands have been appearing alongside videos promoting terrorism and other unsavory subjects. As part of Google’s solution to the problem, Schindler promised to hire “significant numbers” of employees to review YouTube videos and flag them as inappropriate for …

YouTuber Kurzgesagt takes Facebook to task over its problem with copyright
9 years, 4 months ago

YouTuber Kurzgesagt takes Facebook to task over its problem with copyright

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A prominent YouTuber has accused Facebook of 'stealing' billions of views by taking …

YouTube now serving videos to 1 billion people
12 years ago

YouTube now serving videos to 1 billion people

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — YouTube says more than 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch everything from zany clips of cute kittens to sobering scenes of social unrest around the world. YouTube crossed the 1 billion threshold five months after Facebook Inc. said its online social network had reached that figure for the first …

YouTube eyes gadgets, channels to boost viewership
13 years, 2 months ago

YouTube eyes gadgets, channels to boost viewership

News 18  

Las Vegas: YouTube is looking to increase viewership on its online video service by making the service available on an array of connected devices and by adding new content, according to a top executive for the Google Inc unit. “What we want is for viewers is to spend more time on YouTube,” Kyncl told Reuters in an interview at the …

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