Youtube Archive

Richard LawlerJun 30, 2023

Spotify might try music videos.

Bloomberg reports Spotify “has already begun talking to partners about the product” adding full-length music videos to its app. After Spotify’s podcast plan went awry, it appears the company could try to take a bite out of YouTube (which also deeply integrates videos into its YouTube Music service) and TikTok.

The app’s divisive redesign earlier this year added short video clips with videos of artists discussing music, in addition to the existing Canvas background animations.

Spotify Is in Talks to Test Full-Length Music Videos in App (SPOT)

[Bloomberg.com]

Google is in hot water over video ads

Emma RothJun 30, 2023

YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers

Chris WelchJun 29, 2023

Jay PetersJun 28, 2023

“If people aren’t going to pay you what you’re worth for a brand deal, just do it yourself.”

In a new two-hour interview, MrBeast talked about how he can use his line of Feastables snacks to support his outrageous YouTube videos. (The snacks are featured prominently in his latest video about increasingly-expensive yachts, which also includes cameos from Pete Davidson and Tom Brady.)

“Even if I’m pulling a billion views a video, I don’t think anyone’s gonna pay me 10 million dollars a video, so I just gotta go make it myself,” he added.

YouTube reportedly tests adding playable games to its video platform

Jon PorterJun 26, 2023

Wes DavisJun 25, 2023

MrBeast says he was invited to join the disastrous June OceanGate Titan trip.

YouTube creator MrBeast claimed in a tweet today that he was invited to join the Titan trip that disappeared on June 18th and was later determined to have imploded.

Curiously, the included screenshot of the invitation shows what appears to be a blue iMessage bubble. (Sent iMessages show as blue on the sender’s phone, not the receiver’s).

Update June 26, 8:25AM ET: He later tweeted that the screenshot was from the friend who invited him.

YouTube is making it easier for creators to choose that perfect thumbnail

Jon PorterJun 23, 2023

YouTube is getting AI-powered dubbing

Jay PetersJun 22, 2023

YouTube now requires users to declare if they are fan accounts

Emma RothJun 22, 2023

YouTube TV expands multiview beyond sports — but you still can’t customize it

Chris WelchJun 21, 2023

James VincentJun 14, 2023

OpenAI reportedly trained its AI models on YouTube.

That’s according to a report from The Information on the value for Google of YouTube as an AI training dataset. The fact that OpenAI scraped YouTube isn’t surprising, but the company is famously secretive about its training data, partly for competition reasons, and partly, it’s thought, to stymie potential lawsuits.

YouTube’s terms of service forbid using content for anything other than “personal, non-commercial use,” but it’s an open secret in the AI industry that everyone is scraping the web constantly. If Google protests too much, it would end up incriminating itself.

Why YouTube Could Give Google an Edge in AI

[The Information]

YouTube is lowering the eligibility requirements for creators to make money

Mia SatoJun 13, 2023

Wes DavisJun 11, 2023

Banjo Ben Clark explains how harmonics work on a guitar.

Clark’s video on YouTube has a nice, simple overview of the phenomenon and shows how to take advantage of them on a guitar. His explanation starts at the minute mark.

Basically, when you play harmonics on a guitar, you’re isolating overtones — resonant frequencies higher than what’s called the fundamental frequency of a string.