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YouTube Is Testing Two Back To Back Skippable Adverts
YouTube Is Testing Two Back To Back Skippable Adverts I don’t know whether it’s just my imagination or not, but there seem to be considerably more adverts on and around YouTube these days. While you generally tend to accept these as the ‘price’ you pay for the vast amount of…
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Content Creators Criticise YouTube Algorithm Experiment
YouTube Goes To War With Content Creators Again! Despite its content creators generating all the revenue for the video hosting website, it seems that YouTube can’t help but continually want to annoy them. If it’s not changing who and how they monetize their members, it clamping down on the content…
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Ofcom Suspend Licensing Roll-Out For New Local TV Regions
Ofcom Suspend Licensing Roll-Out For 13 UK Regional TV Channels Back in 2013, after the completion of the Freeview roll-out, Ofcom was keen that there should be more TV channels specifically devoted to regional news. In theory, it wasn’t a bad idea. In practice, however, it has been (overall) nothing short…
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YouTube Look To Work With Low-End YouTube Channels To Boost Revenue
YouTube Attempts To Appease Low-End Channels If you’re trying to make a living at YouTube, unless you are already established, it can be difficult work. For those that did make, it should point out that it didn’t (at least for the majority) happen overnight, but now they’re there, as long…
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Facebook Ad Revenue Tops $10b For First Time
Facebook advert revenue tops $10b With over a billion user accounts, Facebook’s potential in advert revenue is extraordinary. Following a lot of recent criticism, the social media giant has been in need of a good news story. Fortunately with quarterly advert profits up by 49%, they might just have it.…
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Facebook Considering Monetization of Posts Using “Tip Jars”
A Facebook user survey distributed this week has shown the social media giant is looking at ways for users to be able to profit from their posts according to The Verge. Some of the features being considered that would allow for the monetization of posts or the ability to promote…
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UK Police Hijacks Ads on 251 Pirate Sites
City of London Police have seized ad revenue from 251 sites that host or link to copyrighted material and replaced and replaced ads with anti-piracy messages, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. For the last two years, the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has been working in conjunction…
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Nintendo to Share Ad Revenue With Registered YouTube Users
Nintendo has launched an affiliate program that allows content creators using Nintendo’s intellectual property to share ad revenue from their YouTube videos with the company. The Creators Program, as it has been branded, is in the beta stage and offers YouTube video creators 60% of ad revenue on individual videos,…
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Facebook Is Betting on Africa as the next Market with 100 Million Users
Facebook has been betting on the African market for some time with their accessibility initiative Internet.org that we already reported on, and this strategy could now start to pay off for real. Facebook has announced that it now has 100 million active users on the the African continent and 80% of…
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