Logan Paul has ads restored on YouTube videos, but he’s not off the hook
The YouTube personality was cut off from ad revenue since early-February and took a self-imposed month-long "break" as a result of the worldwide furore over his "suicide forest" video. Ads were restored after Paul and his team reviewed and understood YouTube's Community Guidelines and Advertiser … Read More
The SEC wants to know why Google doesn’t report YouTube revenue
Basically, Alphabet explained that Larry Page — co-founder of Google and chief executive of the umbrella organization named Alphabet — would be considered its top decision maker, and he only sees very base YouTube revenue information on a quarterly basis because Alphabet views YouTube … Read More
YouTube’s brand-safety efforts are forcing YouTube networks to cut small channels
YouTube has instituted new ad rules that “demonetize” small channels on the platform. The changes are forcing several YouTube networks to release creators with channels that fall below YouTube's thresholds from their contracts. YouTube announced its new rules for the YouTube Partner Program in … Read More
‘Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty
Tom Burns, founder of Summer in the City, an annual British YouTube convention, said his cousin wanted to skip college to become a full-time YouTuber. “I almost flipped out, because I was like, 'No, that's the dumbest thing you can say,'” he said. “You can't guarantee you'll be able to …
UPS sues EU, Ford adds Google’s Waze, YouTube TV prices change
Sticking with Google (GOOGL), the tech giant is raising the price of YouTube TV. New users who sign up after March 13 will pay $40 a month, $5 more than current users. The decision comes after YouTube added channels from Time Warner's Turner, National Basketball League and Major League … Read …
YouTube Live gets automatic English captions, live chat replays, and more
Arguably the most interesting of the new features is automatic captions. YouTube has offered captioning functionality since 2006. In 2009, it added automatic captioning to the mix, merging its automatic speech recognition (ASR) smarts with YouTube's captioning technology to automate the process of … Read More
Logan Paul AGREES to fight KSI as YouTube sensations agree to clash in “Mayweather v …
YouTube sensation Logan Paul has accepted a boxing fight with fellow social media star KSI. Earlier this month, KSI – real name Olajide William … "This is going to be the biggest event in YouTube history, possibly the biggest event in history. This is Mayweather vs McGregor. "I know KSI …
YouTube Live broadcasts get better replays, improved Super Chat, and more
For live broadcasts in English, YouTube is launching automatic captions, where the company's AI will analyze the speech to produce captions in real time. The feature will roll out in the coming weeks. While they might not be as accurate as professionally provided captions, they have the potential to … Read …
YouTube enables captions for live broadcasts
YouTube is making live broadcasts more accessible by giving creators the power to add real-time captions in the English language. They could provide their own if they plan to read off a script or have access to professional captioners that can feed their work to the platform. But YouTube live …
YouTube Updates Live Streaming Features
SpaceX's successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket provided a recent showcase of YouTube's live streaming capabilities, attracting 2.3 million concurrent views. Kurt Wilms, YouTube's live video product lead, said the Google-owned site is offering new tools to improve on the experience for creators … Read More