Tag: YouTube
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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…
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How to Cancel NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV or YouTube to Avoid Automatic Renewals
Have you been thinking about canceling NFL Sunday Ticket now that the 2023 season is over so you don’t get charged for 2024? Good news Google makes it very easy to cancel. Even better, if you signed up before July 10, 2023, for NFL Sunday Ticket with the promotional offer, you won’t automatically renew for…
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MrBeast Tests Posting Videos on X As Elon Musk Tries To Take On YouTube and Twitch
It looks like MrBeast is playing ball with Elon Musk after all. Earlier this week, Jimmy Donaldson — better known as MrBeast, one of YouTube’s most popular personalities — posted a 16-minute video on X called “$1 Car vs $100,000,000 Car!” “I’m curious how much ad revenue a video on X would make so I’m…
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YouTube Says Video Slow Downs Aren’t Part of Its Ad-Blocker Crackdown
The latest software updates to ad-blocker extensions Adblock and Adblock Plus have reportedly resulted in performance issues that YouTube viewers originally blamed on Google. The lags affect Adblock version 5.17 and Adblock Plus 5.17, according to uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill on X, formerly Twitter. Earlier this week, YouTube users took to Reddit earlier this…
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The $6 Billion Class Action Suit Over NFL’s Sunday Ticket Will Head to Trial Next Month
The NFL, fresh off of celebrating the most live-streamed event in U.S. history, will soon be wrestling with a trial over how it handles its Sunday Ticket package in a class-action lawsuit worth more than $6 billion. The NFL had sought a summary judgment to head of going to court, but Judge Philip S. Gutierrez…
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Streaming Services Are Reportedly Testing Putting Their Kids Content on YouTube
More kids seem to be watching YouTube, and streaming services have taken notice. According to The Wall Street Journal, Nielsen data revealed that Netflix’s share of U.S. streaming viewership by 2-to 11-year-olds dropped to 21% in September — a 4% drop from the 25% the streamer had in 2021. In comparison, YouTube’s viewership in the…