Tag: YouTube
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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…
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How to Track Santa This Christmas Eve on Roku, Fire TV, Google TV, & Apple TV
As Santa makes his rounds this Christmas, don’t leave your kids wondering when he will arrive. Instead, check out these Santa trackers, which have their satellites and radars ready to follow Santa’s sleigh across the night sky this Christmas Eve. The tradition of tracking Santa started in 1955 when a young child trying to reach…
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YouTube Announces Plans to Stop AI-Generated Election Misinformation & Plans to Promote “High-Quality Election Content”
2024 marks a presidential election year in the United States and now YouTube has announced plans to crack down on AI-generated election misinformation and how they will stop foreign interference in elections. YouTube also announced it will be working to promote what it considers to be high-quality election content. “Challenges posed by generative AI have…
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The Google Play Movies & TV App Will Be Gone in January. Here’s Where To Find the Content You Purchased
Google will retire the remaining parts of its Google Play Movies & TV app for Android TV, select cable boxes, and the Google Play website on January 17, 2024. As part of its plan to create a more integrated user experience, the tech giant shut down the Google Play Movies & TV app on October…
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YouTube Makes it Harder to See if Your Favorite Creator is Making Money
YouTube removed a snippet of code that disclosed whether a channel receives ad revenue and subscription payouts, according to Wired. The code showed which creators benefit most from the platform’s Partner Program, which YouTube stealthily eliminated around November 17. The code was added sometime in June 2021 and included a flag showing “true” or “false”…
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YouTube Will Start Showing Fewer Ads, but There’s a Catch
YouTube is changing up how it shows ads in videos. The video-sharing app will now group ads together for longer ad breaks, instead of multiple short ad breaks during your video. In addition, viewers will see a countdown of how much time is left in the ad break instead of the number of ads they’ll…