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In partnership with Music Matters Academy Music industry leaders from Spotify, TikTok and YouTube will be sharing their knowledge at the Music Matters Academy, a free online series of panels that will launch later this month. The Music Matters Academy hopes to give musicians and industry professionals an insight into how the music business works – from touring to distribution to publishing – through eight free-to-attend virtual panels, workshops and chats held across three months. Music Matters Academy will launch on August 31 with a module on music publishing. The module will feature an ensemble of industry leaders including Amy Thomson (Hipgnosis), Simon Moor (Kobalt Music Publishing), Gregor Pryor (Reed Smith LLP) and David Shiels (YouTube). On September 1, a second module titled Distribution Matters will tackle topics related to the distribution of music. It will feature Christopher Muller (YouTube), Paul Smith (Spotify), Andreea Gleeson (TuneCore) and Ole Obermann (TikTok) – as well as the electronic duo Sofi Tukker. Other planned modules will cover topics such as artist management, marketing, live-streaming, touring, mental health, and working with brands and partnerships. For more information and registration, click here. The Music Matters Academy is a creation of Branded, the organiser of conference…

Sharing knowledge and digital content creation globally is the dream of many YouTubers. In Cambodia, there has yet to be many people able to rise to the status of “influencer”. Cheng Sopheak, knowns as Sopheak Reanthort, is a Cambodian YouTube creator who produces content teaching photography. With 341,000 subscribers to his channels, he was invited to attend a webinar hosted by Google and YouTube with the Ministry of Post last Friday explaining how creators can best utilise the platform. Sopheak told Khmer Times on Monday that he wants to encourage other creators to produce content. “I am very honoured that I was the only YouTuber in Cambodia to attend the webinar as this is the first time that the government and the international platforms joined hands to inspire content. We have different talents, perspectives, vision, missions and goals but we all want to reach as many people as possible,” he said. “We must value our own national language but also have international communication skills in order to produce global content. Now I am considering to create more content in the future with English content together with subtitles,” said Sopheak. “As one of the creators or a YouTuber, I faced cyberbullying.…

Michael Hyssong does crazy stuff with cars and trucks for a living, recording his stunts and exploits and posting the videos on YouTube. He got his start six years ago when he posted videos of him doing crazy stuff with his old pickup truck, and it took off. “I come from a lower-middle-class family,” he said, “and when I got my first YouTube check, it was $300. I thought, I could do this.” And he’s still at it. His latest video depicts him jumping his Lamborghini Urus — a $218,000 car — over a Lamborghini Aventador.  He is approaching 1.2 million followers on his YouTube channel, Street Speed 717, and, according to his attorney, the 27-year-old Harrisburg resident “makes more money than both of us combined.” It’s all good fun, doing crazy things with very expensive cars and trucks. He didn’t know it would get him into trouble with the law. How he got into trouble involves a Dodge Ram TRX — a pickup that retails for more than $70,000 and is powered by a 702 horsepower Hellcat engine — and Doe Run Creek in northern York County. On Jan. 9 this year, an anonymous tipster sent a complaint to the state Game Commission’s Operation Game Thief tip line about a YouTube video depicting a truck driving…

Google takes account security fairly seriously and, over the past few years, has been pushing 2-step authentication/verification for users, sometimes requiring it for specific account actions. This week, Google has announced that YouTube creators will be required to use 2-step verification to access key functions starting later this year. In a tweet from the “TeamYouTube” account, Google has confirmed its plans to require creators to use the stronger account protection. YouTube will require that creators use 2-step verification to access YouTube Studio. The requirement kicks in starting on November 1, 2021. There is one exception here, though. You’ll still be able to use YouTube and even upload videos without 2-step verification, but only if you’re not in the YouTube Partner Program. So, essentially, YouTube is making the stronger account protection a requirement for those making money through the platform. 2-step verification on Google accounts is available through your account settings, or this direct link, and can take the form of codes sent via SMS, backup codes you print out or save elsewhere, Google Authenticator, or a notification sent to your smartphone/tablet via Google Prompt. That last one is currently Google’s default option and works on both Android and iOS devices…

In the report, right-wing extremism is defined as support for violence to achieve political outcomes relating to white supremacism and neo-Nazism, but not just limited to those ideologies.Telegram is an encrypted messaging platform, while Buy Me A Coffee and Ko-fi are platforms that allow users to make ongoing or one-off contributions to a person.By analysing nine Telegram channels that share right-wing extremist content to more than 100 subscribers, Ms Bogle has mapped how right-wing extremist content creators or activists request funding for legal defences, or to support further content creation through streaming sites such as DLive.tv, Trovo and Entropy, and using payment methods like PayPal, Square and cryptocurrency.‘Flexible’ rulesMs Bogle uses the example of Thomas Sewell, a Melbourne man who is defending armed robbery, assault and violent disorder charges, and who describes himself as “a political soldier for the white race”.His 12,500 followers across his social media channels appear to have donated money to fund his legal expenses via Buy Me A Coffee, and claimed to have donated between $US3 ($4.20) and $US50 ($70) while Mr Sewell livestreamed on Entropy, a video platform that can receive streams from the likes of YouTube while still collecting donations.“People are familiar with cryptocurrencies…

YouTube has announced new updates to its search function that it claims will make it easier for users to search and find new content on its platform. The Google-owned video-sharing platform will get more visual search features — such as the ability to preview chapters in a video — and better foreign language video recommendations. However, users will only be recommended videos with captions in their local language. YouTube's search results will also show complementary results from Google Search with links to other websites and formats.The new features for YouTube were announced through a blog post. The video-sharing platform hasn't announced the exact date of the rollout of these features but Gadgets 360 was able to verify some of the features. The Google-owned platform will show its users a thumbnail of the video and the thumbnail of its chapters with timestamps. This will allow users to directly jump to the part of the video they're the most interested in.YouTube will let users browse through and skip to a video's chapters from the search resultsPhoto Credit: Screenshot/ Gadgets 360YouTube's blog post offers an example, "Let's say you're looking for a good sourdough recipe and want to work on your kneading technique.…

When Susie Todd quit her fulltime job as a teacher’s aide to pursue a career on YouTube, she had no idea she would gain a combined 847,000 followers in just a couple of years. Susie’s channel (susiejtodd) posts fashion, beauty and fitness content, but it was her videos surrounding body positivity and midsize representation that made waves on the platform.   In August 2019, the Chloe Ting fitness challenge was well on its way to amassing over 387 million views. Response videos popped up all over YouTube, as women swarmed to “prove” the challenge’s purported benefits of giving anybody visible abs in two weeks. Susie, who had been posting on YouTube as a hobby after studying film at CIT, watched the array of Chloe Ting response videos in utter disbelief, as each of the women appeared to be doing the strenuous workouts with ease, grace and a fully done face. “Perfect hair in sleek ponytails, they were never even breaking a sweat,” she said. “I thought, ‘This isn’t realistic for someone who’s still trying to get fit. I need to show people that it is hard to do these challenges, so they don’t feel bad when they try it themselves. “Back…

Do you want to show your appreciation to content creators on YouTube? Super Thanks is a feature that lets you tip creators on pre-recorded videos you watch, as a token of appreciation for the entertainment. Here's how you can leave your own Super Thanks tip for your favorite video and what you can expect after you complete the transaction. What Is Super Thanks on YouTube? Formerly known as Viewer Applause, Super Thanks is another way you can tip content creators on YouTube. Previously, you could pay content creators through paid memberships, Super Stickers, and Super Chat. Two of the features, Super Stickers and Super Chat, were only available during live streams. Super Thanks is available any time during your video watching experience. The button appears next to the Share and Save icons, and allows you to give the creator a tip if you found their content enjoyable. You might get the impression YouTube is only focusing on helping creators, but it has an ulterior motive for adding Super Thanks. For every dollar donated, YouTube takes a 30% cut. Although creators get another way to make money, YouTube also benefits from the new feature. When leaving a Super Thanks tip, YouTube…

YouTube announced two feature updates today to make it easier for people to find the content they’re looking for on the platform. This includes visual search features and easier discovery of foreign language videos that have captions in the user’s local language. On desktop, YouTube users can hover over a video’s thumbnail and watch a brief clip play. This functionality will now extend to mobile with the added ability to browse the chapters within a video. From the search page, users can jump directly to the chapter they’re most interested in. “Let’s say you’re looking for a good sourdough recipe and want to work on your kneading technique. With these new search results, you can see all the steps in the video, from feeding the starter to pulling the bread out of the oven — and skip right to the chapter on kneading,” wrote Pablo Paniagua, director of Product Management, in a blog post. The other product update recommends videos in other languages to the user, so long as the video has captioning available in their language. So, to extend YouTube’s sourdough example, if you speak Icelandic and can’t find a good sourdough tutorial in your language, YouTube might recommend…

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