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In the news: Clarifying how we monetize social justice content

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By: The YouTube Team

Over the past year at YouTube, we’ve increased our commitment and focus on social justice and equity. Since the launch of YouTube 16 years ago, our platform has been a place where people come together, and we see this more than ever during difficult times. In times of social unrest, YouTube is …

Facebook details self-supervised AI that can segment images and videos

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By: Kyle Wiggers

Facebook today announced that it developed an algorithm in collaboration with Inria called DINO that enables the training of transformers, a type of machine learning model, without labeled training data. The company claims it sets a new state-of-the-art among unlabeled data training methods and leads to a model that can discover and …

YouTube’s Working on New Updates for its Blur Tools Within YouTube Studio

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By: Andrew Hutchinson

YouTube is testing a new update to its blur tool within YouTube Studio, which will make it easier for creators to blur out specific elements within their YouTube clips as part of the upload process. As explained by YouTube engineer Abhinav Singh:

“Now in Studio, you can blur faces, people, license …

Why AT&T and Discovery Think Bigger is Better for Streaming

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By: Scott Porch

Heading into this week, the big media story looked to be the long list of shows that the major networks and ad-supported streamers would announce in their upfront presentations to advertisers. By Monday afternoon, though, the story had flipped on its head to who would own the big networks and ad-supported …

YouTube Analytics Gets 5 Updates

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By: Matt Southern

In order to facilitate answers to those questions, YouTube has created a Members tab within the Audience page in YouTube Analytics.

What that section is going to show creators is total number of active members, and the total number of members a channel has had throughout its lifetime. The Members tab will …

Tubi taps LiveRamp tech to turn on authenticated ad inventory

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By: Ben Munson

Tubi, an ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox, has reached a deal with LiveRamp to use the tech vendor’s Authenticated Traffic Solution to build addressable audiences.

Tubi said its new deal with LiveRamp will allow for addressability on all OTT devices while maintaining the ability to reach a …

YouTube Introduces New Features to Compete with Twitch

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By: Max Fagandini

YouTube and Twitch have been vying for supremacy in the streaming sphere for the better part of a decade now, and the battle still rages on. Many streamers are huge fans of Twitch’s feature-rich interface, despite the service’s myriad other issues, but the team at YouTube seems determined to make their …

YouTube Select Will Now Offer Seasonal Opportunities for Brands to Increase Their Reach

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By: Arooj Ahmed

YouTube is one of the worlds most used platform and probably the best one to stream your videos and watch video content on. The application knows that it has a large following and therefore it works hard every day to offer the best it has to its community.

Optimism In Future Growth Prospects Are Captured In Roku’s Current Share Price

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By: Larry Cheung

Roku is now a momentum trade that is a proxy for investor’s risk appetite for returns in today’s low-rates and easy Fed policy environment. I believe the company’s future prospects and growth trajectory along with the general content streaming industry is incredible but its shares need to be treated with great …