YouTube says it’s rolling out more tools to help its creators make money from their videos. The changes are meant to address creators’ complaints over YouTube’s new monetization policies announced earlier this year. Those policies were designed to make the site more advertiser-friendly following a series of controversies over video content from top creators, including […]
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Clipisode launches a ‘talk show in a box’
A company called Clipisode is today launching a new service that’s essentially a “talk show in a box,” as founder Brian Alvey describes it. Similar to how Anchor now allows anyone to build a professional podcast using simple mobile and web tools, Clipisode does this for video content. With Clipisode, you can record a video […]
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What’s better than becoming a famous meme after taking a selfie with Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl? Going on The Ellen DeGeneres show and having The Man of the Woods casually call you up to chat.
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An ode to this soothing YouTube channel where a woman calmly makes everything she needs
If you need to just relax and peacefully zone out while watching someone be silently capable, I have the YouTube channel for you.
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CNN shuts down Casey Neistat’s Beme, but some of its digital news tech will live on
CNN’s attempt at expanding its digital news business by bringing in a top YouTube creator has failed. According to a confirmed report from BuzzFeed, CNN is closing down YouTube star Casey Neistat’s video business, Beme, which it bought for a reported $25 million back in 2016. In addition, the YouTuber and his co-founder, Matt Hackett, are also leaving the company. Neistat spoke… Read More
YouTube invests $5 million in more ‘positive’ video content
Following a series of scandals for YouTube’s video-sharing network, the company today announced it’s investing $5 million in creators who use the service in “positive ways” to create change and empower young people. The investment is going towards YouTube’s Creators for Change, its two-year old program focused on countering hate and promoting tolerance.
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Twitch partners with Disney Digital Network on content, adds software for broadcasting pre-recorded videos
On the heels of Twitch’s exec shakeup yesterday which saw the Amazon-owned streaming site adding a new COO, the company today announced a multi-year partnership with Disney Digital Network to bring several top creators to its site. The company also debuted new software for all creators that will allow them to broadcast pre-recorded content to their channels. Disney Digital Network is… Read More
Logan Paul isn’t the only problem. YouTube is broken — here’s how to fix it.
It’s easy to hate on Logan Paul. A 22-year-old YouTuber with 15 million subscribers, Paul made himself the poster child for shallow and gross behavior this weekend by posting a graphic video in which he finds the body of a man who died by suicide in …
View More Logan Paul isn’t the only problem. YouTube is broken — here’s how to fix it.Verne Troyer unboxes his new Tesla for Christmas and takes it for a spin
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Actor Verne Troyer got a sweet new ride for Christmas, and he takes us for a spin in this video on his YouTube channel.
It’s a Tesla…. Model S for Kids, by Radio Flyer. (“Ages 3 to 8… I’m 48,” Troyer points out in the video.) He manages to get it out of the box and shows us its features, which are pretty sweet. You can charge the battery and plug it in, just like the adult-size Tesla.
Troyer’s got a need for speed so he takes it to a scorching 6 mph.
Make sure you stick around for the outtakes at the end — looks like Troyer is a lot of fun to film. Read more…
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Layla’s journey has been anything but easy.
She’s a refugee from the eastern Somali Region of Ethiopia, which she and her husband fled because of conflict and persecution in the early 2000s. They eventually found a temporary home in Saudi Arabia, where they had children and stayed for seven years — before Layla’s husband was deported in 2010. Her employers helped her family escape to Syria.
“I began to start my new life,” Layla says. “My kids had a little education at home.”
But before she could truly settle, civil war erupted in Syria, contributing to one of the worst refugee crises of our time. Layla made the difficult decision to once again flee the country where her family lived, walking for two to three days to the Turkish border, where she ultimately learned of her husband’s death back home. Read more…
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