Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has come under scrutiny for Facebook’s lack of monitoring false content. GETTY IMAGES Social Media Claims Increased With the 2020 presidential election just months away, attention has turned to the role of social media in the spreading of misinformation and propaganda. How far should Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter go to put a […]
Google to Discontinue Classic Version of YouTube on Desktop Google plans to discontinue YouTube’s older desktop interface as of March 2020, nearly three years after introducing the new version. In August 2017, YouTube on desktop was overhauled with a material design-based interface. Until now, users still had the option to toggle back and forth between the old […]
Google Discloses YouTube Ad Revenue We finally know how much Google is making from ads on YouTube. Google took in more than $15 billion from YouTube ads in 2019, the company revealed. That number, nearly 10 percent of Alphabet’s total revenue, doesn’t include other sources of revenue from the video platform, including subscriptions. Google disclosed the […]
Short-Form Video Take a Bigger Chunk of Marketing Spend Brands constantly try to guess what’s next in marketing. It makes the most sense to meet consumers where they are — on their phones watching videos. The online video climate has developed considerably, even in the past couple years. For businesses looking to adopt internet video content — […]
YouTube Shows Users’ Comment History in New Profile Cards YouTube is introducing profile cards, which display all comments a user has left on a particular video. Tapping on the profile picture of a user who left a comment will pull up their profile card with a summary of public information about that user. Information in the new […]
