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Janet Peischel's The Internet Marketer: YouTube ads drive web traffic Janet Peischel J.L. Sousa, Register Janet Peischel I’ve been doing YouTube advertising for one of my clients for six months, and it’s increased our business by an estimated 10%.While I had done Google and Facebook pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, I was new to video. Viewers are now spending up to six hours/day watching the video, so the time is right.Be prepared for a learning curve Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. The YouTube ads creation tool is the same as that for Google ads. But there are significant differences and some subtle nuances. I did a lot of reading as I was working on this. It’s also helpful to watch videos that explain processes.We created a series of explainer videosOur videos were about 60 seconds or less. I wrote the scripts, and this is key—keep them crisp and focused on a single topic. A quick how-to that explains a process or, in our case, the benefit of using a product/service.Professional-looking videos can get expensive, but I turned to Fiverr — a website that hosts contractors offering a wide range of…

The first Dota 2 major of the season, the Singapore Major has just concluded, and to much surprise, the winners were Invictus Gaming (IG) from the Chinese Dota 2 region.DPC season 1 wasn't without its surprises when we saw a mid Omniknight, and a 5 core line-up from OG, Artour "Arteezy" Babaev being the farming simulator he likes being, and the Chinese teams perfecting the carry IO which OG.ana had first shown.Where to watch Dota 2 live DPC Season 2Dota 2's Majors are generally streamed on both YouTube and Twitch, but since DPC is not an official tournament, but a qualifier, it is generally streamed on twitch. An enthusiast can watch it in game if they want to, in the watch section of the main menu as well.If watched on twitch, the experience is more of an audience, where the Dota 2 casters show the most impotant part of the map, where fights are taking place, or where-ever some beautiful plays are being initiated by any team.However, if watched in the in-game Dota-TV, it provides a more unfiltered experience of the game, where the viewer is free to watch the game of Dota 2 from the perspective of any particular…

Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren has set the world record for receiving the highest number of Twitch subscribers of all time — beating the pervious one set by Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, which was 269,155 subscribers. In the afternoon of April 13, Ahgren exceeded 270,000 subscribers, with the number still climbing at the time of publication. The achievement comes on the heels of a 30-day long “sub-athon,” where for each subscriber Ahgren received, he extended the length of his stream by ten seconds. In the end, he received enough subs to keep the marathon going for 30 days straight, during which he streamed night and day. Although the subs continued to pour in, Ahgren announced on April 11 that the event would be coming to an end on April 13 at 9 p.m. PDT. To cap off the stream, he planned something special: For every sub he got that day, he would match it with a $5 donation that would go to either to St. Jude Children’s Hospital or the Animal Humane Society. This got the subs going up high enough to push Ahgren over the world record, which he had slowly approached throughout the course of the month. The lead-up to…

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that HECTOR TORRES, 32, of Monroe, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with child exploitation offenses related to his alleged sexual abuse of three minor girls. Following his arrest, Torres appeared via videoconference before U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Dave Vatti and is detained. As alleged in the criminal complaint, Torres used Snapchat, FaceTime and text messaging to communicate with three minor girls, ages 11 and 12, to persuade, induce, entice or coerce them to send him naked pictures of themselves and to engage in sexual activity with him. On multiple occasions in February 2021, Torres picked up the girls in his car and brought them to a shopping plaza parking lot in Hartford, where they each engaged in sexual activity with Torres at his direction.  Torres promised to give the girls money, sneakers, vaping supplies and/or food if they sent him photos of their bodies and/or engaged in sex acts with him.  In March 2021, investigators reviewed at least three videos of Torres’s sexual abuse…

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)Students at a school in Northern Texas were disciplined after they set up a slave auction game on social media pretending to sell their Black classmates. The incident took place in the Aledo Independent School District, where students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyberbullied other students based on their race, according to a statement from Superintendent Dr. Susan Bohn.The district is working with law enforcement to address what happened. According to the Star-Telegram, local activists said that a group of students started the online slave auction and provided a screenshot that showed a Snapchat group with names such as “Slave Trade” and another name that the newspaper did not print. But civil rights lawyer S. Lee Merritt published a screenshot on Twitter purportedly from the auction with the words “Nigger Auction,” along with prices that the Black students were supposedly sold for. A student wrote in the snap that one of his classmates “Would be better if his hair wasn’t so bad.”G/O Media may get a commissionEddie Burnett, president of Parker County NAACP, learned about the situation on Sunday and that he will take up the issue at the Aledo school board meeting April 19.“There is no…

WhatsApp (Pixabay) WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. In the past couple of weeks, reports have detailed the features that are expected to make it be available in the app soon. The list includes the ability to change app colours, larger media preview and Chat Threads among others. Now, word is that the company is making changes to its mention badge.According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is making tweaks to its mention badge. The blog site said that the Facebook-owned messaging app is enabling the feature that enables users to view a mention badge when they receive a mention in a message from a specific group. The blog site said that some people were already able to see a mention badge. And starting today WhatsApp is expanding the test to more users.Apart from that, the company has also changed the overall colour scheme of the mention-badge. As of now, the mention badge appears in grey while the name of the WhatsApp contact appears in Blue next to the badge when dark mode has been enabled. This, however, changes in the changes that the company is making to the feature. For starters, the badge…

ALEDO, Texas — One student said he would pay only $1 for his classmate because he didn’t like his hair. Another said he’d pay $100 to purchase a different student in a Snapchat group labeled “Slave Trade.”  What You Need To Know Aledo High School ninth graders set up a Snapchat labeled "Slave Auction" The students bid on their Black classmates The district started an investigation that involved law enforcement The district did not specify what discipline the students received, nor did it release any information about how many students were involved in the incident The Aledo ninth graders who set up a fake slave auction on social media — where they pretended to buy and sell their Black classmates — have been punished by Aledo ISD. But parents and activists say their behavior is yet another example of the systemic racism Black and brown students face every day in the wealthy town just west of Fort Worth. The Aledo Independent School District learned of an incident where students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyberbullied and harassed other students based on their race, according to a statement from Superintendent Dr. Susan Bohn. The district started an investigation that involved law enforcement. Leaders…

Corey Arwood, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 4:07 p.m. ET April 13, 2021 | Updated 4:11 p.m. ET April 13, 2021CLOSE TCPalm's Rob Landers brings you some of this week's top stories on the News in 90 Seconds. Treasure Coast NewspapersINDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Deputies arrested a 33-year-old Miami man accused of sexually assaulting a girl he drove to meet after months of Snapchat talks, officials said in a report.Carlos Lagos, 33, was charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child during his arrest in Fellsmere, according to Indian River County Sheriff’s Office records.The girl is 13;  he claimed to be 17, deputies said.An arrest affidavit shows deputies were called early Saturday to look into allegations of sexual battery made against Lagos.Attempted murder: 17-year-old charged with attempted murder in connection to March shooting of Fellsmere manLewd acts: Deputies arrest Port St. Lucie man accused of lewd acts in front of teens at beachThey were told he drove to meet a 13-year-old and took her to McDonald’s and then to a convenience store parking lot, where law enforcement officials said the sexual battery occurred.Family members called 911 after getting text messages from the girl saying she was scared, and that she had…

no sex please, we're ios — App Store rules seemingly lead to tighter restrictions for Apple users. Kyle Orland - Apr 13, 2021 7:56 pm UTC Enlarge / This cute little pig has obviously seen some things that iOS users will no longer be allowed to see on Discord.Discord users who access the Discord app through iOS will now face restrictions on adult content that go beyond those for other platforms. The gaming-focused social networking app—which lets users create public or private servers to chat via text, image, voice, and video livestreaming—announced this week that "all users on the iOS platform (including those aged 18+) will be blocked from joining and accessing NSFW servers. iOS users aged 18+ will still be able to join and access NSFW communities on the desktop and web versions of Discord." That NSFW designation can be set by the server owner or by Discord itself, in keeping with community guidelines requiring the label on "adult content." Individual channels within a server can be designated as NSFW without imposing limits on the full server, but an entire server may be labeled as NSFW "if the community is organized around NSFW themes or if the majority of…

Law360 (April 13, 2021, 3:49 PM EDT) -- A marketing agency hit social media personality and cannabis entrepreneur Dan Bilzerian and his beverage line with a copyright infringement suit, claiming they used sample photographs owned by the agency to market their vodka product after they decided against hiring the agency.Florida-based Creative Klick Agency LLC said in Monday's complaint that Bilzerian, Ignite Spirits Inc. and its affiliates posted the photos on various social media accounts belonging to Bilzerian and the companies, as well as Ignite's websites, without the agency's permission. According to the complaint, Ignite's Instagram account has more than 3 million followers, while Bilzerian's account has more than 32... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs, petitions, complaints, decisions, motions, etc. Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and so much more! TRY LAW360 FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS