Tag: YouTube
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YouTube Wants to Help You Customize Your Feed of Suggested Videos
One of the best and worst things about YouTube is its recommendations feed. Now, the video streaming giant wants you to help customize your own feed with content you actually want to watch. To offer better recommendations, YouTube is asking viewers to give feedback on what videos they like. If you agree to give feedback,…
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YouTube Lays Off Another 100 Staffers
Google laid off 100 workers from its YouTube division as the company reduces staff as part of a restructuring tactic as it incorporates artificial intelligence into its operations. The cuts mainly affected the creator management and operations teams that manage YouTube’s content creators, marking its first corporate restructuring in a decade. The 100 people whose…
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The Recap: Nickelodeon’s App Shuts Down, Spectrum Takes a Hit, and More
YouTube TV offered some improvements for users, while earnings season rolled along with a myriad of tech companies reporting their results. Also reporting earnings was Spectrum, which felt the bite of 5G home internet service. The Federal Communications Commission, meanwhile, warned that it may need to stop taking new applications for the Affordable Connectivity Program…
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Deal Alert! Save $50 on NFL Sunday Ticket With YouTube TV & YouTube
As the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers collide in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, football fans can get a headstart before next season kicks off with the latest deal from YouTube with NFL Sunday Ticket. For the upcoming 2024 NFL Season, NFL Sunday Ticket is launching at $349 per season on YouTube…
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YouTube Music and Premium Now Has More Than 100 Million Subscribers
More than 100 million people have signed up for YouTube Music and Premium, the video platform said on Thursday. The service is now available in more than 100 countries, said Adam Smith, vice president of product management for YouTube, in a blog post. The milestone underscores the momentum of YouTube, which is the largest streaming…
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TikTok Is Slowly Turning Into YouTube With Longer and Horizontal Video Tests
TikTok may be trying to make its app more like YouTube by encouraging creators to post horizontal videos that are over one minute in length to get more views. Creators who have been using the viral video-sharing app for more than three months can qualify for a viewership boost “within 72 hours of posting,” according…
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Google Says Connected TVs Make Up YouTube’s Fastest Growing Audience
Expect YouTube to give users who watch its user-generated videos on a smart TV a lot more love. The connected TV audience represents YouTube’s fastest growing viewership, according to Philipp Schindler, chief business officer of YouTube parent Alphabet, who spoke on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. YouTube is by far the most popular streaming service…
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YouTube Ad Revenue Rose 16% to $9.2 Billion
YouTube advertising continues to pay off for Google. Google’s parent, Alphabet, on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter results, which saw YouTube ad revenue rising of $9.2 billion. That figure is up 15.9% from its year-earlier tally of $7.96 billion. The revenue comes amid a crackdown on ad-blocking software and a concerted effort to lure users onto its…
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Watch America’s Funniest Home Videos Free on YouTube
America’s Funniest Home Videos is available to stream for free on YouTube. Fans of camels eating people’s hair and brides falling off Lippezanners can stream content 24/7. Fans can check out individual videos of past contestants and curated clip videos such as the Best of AVF Winner Edition, the funniest outdoor fails compilations, and Try…
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MrBeast’s Video Experiment on X Made More Than $260K in Revenue As Elon Musk Tries to Take on YouTube – But There is a Catch…
The numbers are in, and the test video Jimmy Donaldson — also known as MrBeast on YouTube — uploaded on X pulled in $263,655 in revenue. “My first X video made over $250,000!” Donaldson wrote in an X post on Monday. The content creator acknowledged that the buzz around the original post likely gave the…