YouTube posted an update on their Creator Blog that provides an explanation of their actions related to the safety of minors. YouTube has disabled comments on videos featuring minors. Over the past week, we disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior. These efforts are focused on videos featuring young minors and we
Google presented a white paper titled “How Google Fights Disinformation” at the Munich Security Conference. The white paper provides details about Google's work to tackle the spread of misinformation – across Google Search, Google News, YouTube and their advertising systems. One thing Google is doing is giving users more context. Here is how they do that: “Knowledge: or “Information” Panels
YouTube announced announced some exciting news for cord cutters. As of today, YouTube is in the process of making YouTube TV available nationwide. They have launched this expansion to be available in time for Super Bowl 2019. YouTube TV is rolling out to 95 markets starting today, covering 98 percent of households in the United States. The remainder will follow
YouTube has introduced a new way for copyright owners to protect their work. It is called the Copyright Match Tool. It is designed to find re-uploads of your content on other channels. Here's how it works: after you upload a video, YouTube will scan other videos uploaded to YouTube to see if any of them are the same or very
YouTube has made changes to its YouTube Partner Program (YPP) that it feels will better protect creators. The change in eligibility requirements for the YouTube Partner Program makes it much harder for creators with smaller fan bases to continue making money on YouTube. In a Creator Blog post, YouTube explains that the changes were being made so they can “prevent
YouTube announced that they are bringing the best of the YouTube experience to live TV. This comes after consumers told YouTube that they want TV to be more like YouTube. YouTube TV is designed for those who want to watch what they want, when they want, how they want, and without commitments. This might be something good for people who don't
YouTube announced that their Original Content team, under Susan Daniels, is adding four new Original series to YouTube Red. The new series are created with the YouTube Kids app in mind. These four new series will debut in the spring. Additional shows are in development and will premier throughout 2017. The new series will feature DanTDM, Joe and Cody of TheAtlanticCraft,