Category: Technology News

YouTube Tests New Timed Comments in Video Playback to Provide More Context and Maximize Engagement

By: Andrew Hutchinson

YouTube is testing a new comment display option, which will show viewer comments at specific, timed points within the playback, which could provide more context on their intention and meaning, while also highlighting where the best conversation is happening around each clip.

As you can see in this example, shared …

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Facebook begins testing ads in Instagram Reels

By: Sheila Dang

Facebook Inc. on Thursday said it will begin testing ads on its TikTok clone Instagram Reels in India, Brazil, Germany and Australia, as the social media giant aims to make money from its short-form video feature.

The company is seeking to capitalize on its popularity in India, a …

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YouTube to Host Small-Business Shopping Event in E-Commerce Push

By: Nico Grant

YouTube is hosting a small-business day to attract more entrepreneurs and shoppers to its platform, in an effort to bolster revenue and make the website a bigger hub for e-commerce.

The world’s largest video platform will showcase a live-streamed shopping event Thursday, during which viewers will be able …

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YouTube Music Gives Update on $100 Million Black Voices Fund

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By: Jem Aswad

Last June, YouTube launched a $100 million #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund in an effort to help equip Black musicians with the resources and support to enable them to “thrive and invest in work that amplifies the voices, perspectives and stories of all Black artists around the world,” according to the …

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How Google’s $150 billion advertising business works

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By: Megan Graham

Alphabet’s market capitalization of over $1.5 trillion makes it one of the most valuable publicly traded companies in the world, trailing only Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.

Created in 2015, Alphabet is essentially a holding company for Google, which generates nearly all of its revenue and profit. Google has always portrayed itself as a tech …

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YouTube Adds New Tools To Detect Copyright Violations and Block Them Within the Upload Process

By: Andrew Hutchinson

YouTube is rolling out some new options to give users more capacity to stop copyright violations in uploads, and detect potential IP infringements within the app.

First off, YouTube is adding a new element in the copyright claim process which will enable creators to tick a new box when reporting a …

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Facebook Launches New Dynamic Ads for Video Streaming Platforms

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Today, The Social Network has added new ‘Dynamic Ads for Streaming’, which is designed to help video streaming brands showcase relevant titles to people on Facebook, in order to entice new sign-ups based on their interests.

As explained by Facebook:

“With Dynamic Ads for Streaming, when people see …

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How Amazon Is Attracting Bigger Audiences With Premium Sports, IMDb TV’s Free Content

By: Antonio Ferme

At Variety‘s Virtual TV Fest panel presented by Amazon Advertising, Marie Donoghue, VP of global sports video at Amazon, as well as Ryan Pirozzi and Lauren Anderson — IMDb TV’s co-heads of content and programming — spoke with Variety NY digital editor Todd Spangler.

The execs discussed the lineup of original …

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New Nielsen Measurement Shows Streaming Usage Outrunning Broadcast TV In May

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By: Jill Goldsmith and Dade Hayes

A new monthly Nielsen measurement called The Gauge shows just how much the pandemic has catalyzed streaming among a broad ranger of consumers with May usage across all television homes climbing to 26% of time spent on TV — outpacing broadcast, with an audience share of 25%.

The streaming video data included …

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Facebook AI cuts by more than half the error rate of unsupervised speech recognition

By: Tiernan Ray

Speech recognition, meaning, programs that are able to detect spoken phonemes, is a fairly well established discipline in computer science that has been greatly advanced in the past twenty years by artificial intelligence. 

The field has depended heavily on libraries of samples of speakers with each phoneme explicitly …

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