After getting roasted widely since yesterday’s announcement that the platform would be removing verification from a lot of creators. YouTube announced one day later that it won’t be de-verifying currently verified creators. “We heard loud and clear how much the badge means to you […] Channels that already have the verificationContinue Reading
YouTube is overhauling its system for user verification. The company says these policy changes, set to start next month, will stop using subscription numbers to determine verification. YouTube will instead verify “prominent channels that have a clear need for proof of authenticity.” “Through our research, we found that viewers often associatedContinue Reading
A team of researchers from Northeastern University and the Imperial College of London found a variety of IoT devices are collecting and sharing data. The devices the research claim are collecting users data like smart TVs and set top boxes for streaming, are also sharing data with third parties includingContinue Reading
In the U.S. Roku TV is found on over a third of smart TVs. Now the company is bringing its smart TV operating system licensing to European markets. The company made the announcement at IFA Berlin. Roku says it will now allow manufacturers in Europe to license its TV designs andContinue Reading
In a blog post, YouTube says it has removed over 100,000 videos and more than 17,000 channels from April to June for violating its new hate speech rules. This is five times more than YouTube removed in the previous three months. The company also took down over 500 million commentsContinue Reading
On August 27, 2019 The U.S. DoJ announced that a Grand Jury indicted eight people allegedly for running a pirate streaming service. The indictments say the eight, ran Jetflix and iStreamItAll out of Las Vegas. These services offer over 100,000 movies and TV episodes to customers and according to the DOJ claimedContinue Reading
Politico reports that Google will be shelling out between $150 and $200 million to settle an FTC regulatory probe into children’s privacy on YouTube. The investigation launched last year following an massive joint appeal from 20 advocacy groups. Who claim YouTube violated the COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) by collecting dataContinue Reading
The saying goes something like, when you’re in a gold rush sell shovels. Right now, video streaming is a gold rush for startups like FuboTV and TVersity and mega corporations including Netflix and soon Disney. However, some companies turning streaming into cash are not the content providers. Ralph Schackart, anContinue Reading
Bucking the trend of big tech companies to use AI to replace humans at any possible job, Netflix is testing human curation for some users. Speaking to TechCrunch, Netflix said the Collections are selected by its creative teams. The test is limited to Netflix users on the iOS app andContinue Reading
Bloomberg reports that YouTube executives are finalizing plans to end “targeted” advertisements on videos kids are likely to watch. This is widely believed to be the result of a Federal Trade Commission investigation into whether YouTube breached the Children’s Online Privacy Act (COPPA). Reportedly the FTC reached a settlement with YouTube, butContinue Reading