YouTube’s Hollywood Investments To Stay Flat By 2020: Report
Google is pausing its Hollywood investment growth meant to generate content for streaming service YouTube Red, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the move. The Mountain View, California-based tech giant is understood to have halted additional investment efforts in YouTube Red for the … Read More
YouTube pushes the Alex Jones Infowars channel one step closer to deletion
YouTube gave a strike to the Alex Jones-led Infowars channel after it posted a conspiratorial video this week that accused Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students of being actors, according to CNN. YouTube deleted the video titled “David Hogg Can't Remember His Lines In TV Interview” that … Read More
YouTube on Android TV Gets Redesigned, Now Lets You Adjust Video Quality
Google constantly tinkers with the design of its applications on Android, but Android TV apps don't tend to change a lot. The YouTube application on Android TV has seen a number of refreshes in the last year, but its last major upgrade was way back in July. But it's finally …
YouTube said to hold TV spending as Netflix, Amazon bulk up
YouTube is hitting the pause button on its Hollywood expansion. As Netflix and Amazon.com pour ever-larger sums into TV and movie production, Google is holding spending at current levels for its YouTube Red streaming service for the next two years, people with knowledge of the matter said. Read More
A video of an Irish girl meeting her favourite Youtuber on the Late Late Show has gotten a lot of …
THE WORLD OF celebrity Youtubers is awfully confusing to anybody who doesn't regularly check in on it. There are countless people on Youtube with millions of subscribers who are making an absolute fortune. One of the most notable Irish people on Youtube is a gamer called JackSepticEye. Read More
There’s one way to hold tech companies hostage and fix the spread of hoaxes, conspiracy theories …
It's amazing how advanced the technology behind Facebook and YouTube can be. Both sites can prevent porn from ever reaching your feed, identifying and deleting the offensive content almost in real time. They can scrub certain speech that's illegal in some countries, like pro-Nazi content in Germany. Read More
YouTube pulls InfoWars video from the Alex Jones Channel over Parkland shooting allegations
Alex Jones' conspiracy-theory-heavy InfoWars has been censured by YouTube for violating its policies. A video entitled "David Hogg Can't Remember His Lines In TV Interview" — in which it was alleged that students appearing on TV talking about the Parkland, Florida shooting were "crisis actors" — was … Read More
Let’s ignore YouTube’s worst creators for a moment and watch these 8 channels we actually love
Ah, YouTube. You've had a rough year so far. From Logan Paul's video of a dead human body to Logan Paul's video of himself tasering a dead rat, the worst of YouTube culture has been in the spotlight. I've written a lot about what's wrong with YouTube over the past …
There’s one way to hold tech companies hostage and fix the spread of hoaxes, conspiracy theories …
It happened again Wednesday when conspiracy theory videos claiming that Florida shooting survivor David Hogg was a paid actor made it into YouTube and Facebook's trending sections and search results. Both companies admitted the screwup, and much of the hoax content was gone by late in the … Read More
YouTube Star Ingrid Nilsen Teams Up With Bill Gates To Quiz Viewers On Global Health Trends
The world's second-richest man has teamed up with one of YouTube's top stars to share a global health progress report. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates appeared in a video about poverty and women's rights alongside vlogger Ingrid Nilsen. Before posting the video Nilsen shared four multiple-choice … Read More