YouTube’s Snapchat-Like Format Is Renamed From Reels To Stories, Adds New Backgrounds
YouTube's three-month-old Snapchat-esque feature has received a new name and added a new feature. The disappearing video format, once titled YouTube Reels, is now called Stories, and its latest update gives users the ability to change the backgrounds behind them as they shoot selfie-style … Read More
He Tried a YouTube Hack to Open a Wine Bottle and Almost Died
A California man who tried to open a wine bottle using a popular YouTube hack is discouraging similar attempts after his epic fail. Lawrence Guo, who hails from San Leandro, was hanging out with a friend on February 27 when he tried to open a bottle of Stella Rosa Pink …
Is YouTube TV Repeating Big Cable’s Mistakes?
To that end, it was surprising when Alphabet announced it was raising the cost of its YouTube TV service for new customers to add channels from Time Warner's Turner Sports network to bring NBA games to the service. While it's difficult to categorize an entire group of consumers, it's widely …
Social Feed: Fire department saves kid on Facebook; YouTube’s latest gaffe
Social media is a fluid technology — nearly every day, the major social media networks are announcing a big change, coming under fire for the latest controversy or moving forward in smaller ways. Social Feed is a collection of those smaller changes that you may have missed with this week's …
Dreaming of making it big on YouTube? Almost nobody’s even making a living
Reaching the top 3.5 percent of YouTube's most-viewed channels — which means at least 1 million video views a month — is worth only about $12,000 to $16,000 a year in advertising revenue, according to Mathias Bartl, a professor at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, whose … Read …
Spotify’s Global Hip Hop Head Tuma Basa Departs Company For YouTube (Report)
Top Spotify executive Tuma Basa has left the company to join YouTube, which is poised to launch a new music subscription service of its own in coming months. Basa formerly served as Spotify's global programming head of hip hop, and was also the curator of the company's cult-favorite RapCaviar … Read …
YouTube Reportedly Snatches Spotify’s Tuma Basa, the Curator of Your Favorite Playlist
YouTube, the internet's default music player, just hired away a key employee from its competition. On Friday, Billboard reported that Tuma Basa, the former global programming head of hip-hop for Spotify, is leaving the Swedish streaming giant for the music industry's longtime adversary YouTube. Read More
YouTube is replacing the green screen with an AI tool
The tech is only available in a limited beta, and even then, just for certain YouTube creators. To get just a little more limited, the feature is just for "stories" using the video service's new video format. Yes, they look like Snapchat's and Instagram's video captures by the same name. …
Tuma Basa, Outgoing Curator for Spotify’s RapCaviar Playlist, Heading to YouTube: Exclusive
Tuma Basa, Spotify's outgoing global programming head of hip-hop, is heading to YouTube, sources tell Billboard. Spotify announced Thursday (March 1) that Basa, whose RapCaviar playlist has amassed nearly 9 million followers, had decided to leave the company. Basa couldn't be reached for … Read More
Suit: Google, YouTube Had Quotas for ‘Diversity Candidates’
(Newser) – A former YouTube employee is suing parent company Google, for which he worked for a total of nine years, alleging that he was fired for refusing to adhere to hiring practices that discriminated against white and Asian males. Per the Wall Street Journal, Arne Wilberg served as a …