Tag: youtube

• Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos

  April 10, 2021

  Last June, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a big promise to help Black YouTubers. “We’re committed to doing better as a platform to center and amplify Black voices and perspectives,”… more ›

• Netflix has no choice but to disrupt the entertainment business, again

  November 20, 2020

  In January 2013, when Netflix was just dipping its toes into the original content waters, Ted Sarandos, the company’s content boss, issued a pithy assessment of the battle for entertainment… more ›

• Really Good Emails

  August 2, 2020

  Take a deep breath. Learn how Sue Cho from Calm brings peacefulness into their emails. ✨☮️✉️ This site uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. https://reallygoodemails.com/ more ›

• TheirTube

  August 1, 2020

  Theirtube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people’s YouTube. Users can experience how the YouTube home page would look… more ›

• Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy

  July 13, 2020

  Social media platforms have profoundly transformed cultural production, in part by restructuring the terms by which culture is distributed and paid for. In this article, we examine the YouTube Partner… more ›

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›

• At VidCon’s 10-Year Anniversary, Influencers, Fans, And Brands All Seem Ready To Leave YouTube Behind

  July 13, 2019

  Get ready to feel so old that you turn to dust. VidCon celebrated its 10-year anniversary this week. Yet the palpable sadness hovering over Thursday’s panels revealed how heavily the… more ›

• ‘Be urself’: meet the teens creating a generation gap in music

  April 17, 2019

  It is a disconcerting experience to look at your tweenage daughter’s Spotify playlists and realise that you have never heard of any of the artists. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/29/be-urself-meet-the-teens-creating-a-generation-gap-in-music more ›

• Changing the Face (and Sound) of Rap

  January 5, 2019

  “TIK TOK,” a zippy and salacious celebration of late nights and mornings-after by a new artist named Ke$ha, has spent the last few weeks zooming toward the top of the… more ›

• “Ain’t got a care in the world / but got plenty of beer / ain’t got no money in my pocket / but I’m already here”

  January 4, 2019

  If you have a car, and that car contains some kind of media-playing device—like a CD player or whatever—then you probably prize that car as one of the few spaces… more ›