According to Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan, news viewership in YouTube surged by 75 percent in recent weeks compared to the same time last year. This is because millions of people are relying on the video-sharing platform to search for news updates about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Colibri Travel is witnessing a continuous growth despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
A United States ex-pat in Guadalajara put up a YouTube travel channel seven months ago. Surprisingly, the said channel is steadily thriving despite the COVID-19 restriction as well as reduced international travel.
Continue ReadingAfter acquiring 8.3 million views on YouTube, the platform takes down Michael Moore ad Jeff Gibbs Planet of the Humans, a controversial documentary film. Filmmakers say that the removal of the documentary is a blatant act of censorship.
YouTube star PewDiePie has signed an exclusive live-streaming contract with the company after he switched to a rival platform last year.
Felix Kjellberg, or more popularly known as PewDiePie by his fans, is the biggest independent content creator on Youtube with over 104 million subscribers. This 30-year-old Swedish content creator and vlogger started building his YouTube channel in 2010.
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At around 9 AM on April 13, two WhatsApp groups came alive in Hudeel, Nagaur district in Rajasthan’s gram panchayat. One WhatsApp group is for the parents, while the other is for the teachers and school officials. The messages in the group consist of lessons like a “body movement” video for Class 6’s NCERT as well as a YouTube link for Class 9’s remainder theorem.
Continue ReadingA New YouTube channel called Vocal Synthesis is dedicated to publishing audio deepfakes. These audio deepfakes are speech generated by artificial intelligence to mimic the voices of humans. The voices that these AI-generated voices mimic are synthesized by text through training a neural network with state of the art system.
A YouTuber who is obsessed with UFOs created misleading videos on his YouTube account where he targeted Latin America despite the debunk of conspiracies.
Today, the most popular videos on YouTube only have a little in common with the most distinct ones in the past. Child-friendly videos such as Chocolate Rain and Charlie Bit My Finger easily gained a spot in YouTube’s most viewed content back then. But now, child-friendly music videos coming from artists like Ed Sheeran and Justine Bieber have managed to be into the top spots. Music videos have done a good job of entering the list of the most popular videos ever watched in the history of YouTube. Regardless of its genre, music videos seem to have a huge appeal to viewers regardless of different ages. If you want the same growth for your YouTube channel, here’s what you need to have.
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Markipler is now considered as one of the highest-paid YouTube personalities with his $17.5 million earnings during a 12-month scorching period.
Mark Fischbach or more commonly known as Markiplier by his fans is a native of Hawaii. It was in 2012 when he launched his YouTube channel when he was studying at the University of Cincinnati under the biomedical engineering program. During that time, he was going through a tough situation. He had broken up with his girlfriend, lost his desk job, and had surgery to remove his adrenal gland tumor that surgeons discovered when they took out his appendix.
Continue ReadingIn the first episode of Rabbit Hole, Kevin’s new audio series, featured Caleb Cain, a college dropout who lives in West Virginia. Cain found himself watching a lot of YouTube videos that contain extreme topics. In fact, Cain started to believe in the things he absorbed from watching, such as misogyny, racism, as well as conspiracy theories.
