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‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to become a Spotify exclusive, leaving Apple Podcasts - 9to5Mac
Joe Rogan has announced today that his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience will become a Spotify exclusive starting later this year. The show is currently available on a variety of platforms, with full video versions posted to YouTube. As of today, it sits in second place on the Apple Podcasts charts.
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What's up Pyongyang? North Korea experiments with vlogging to fight "fake news"
Mention North Korean propaganda in casual conversation (as you do) and one name is likely to come up: Ri Chun Hee, the hanbok-wearing, effervescent bearer of news, good and bad, on the DPRK’s screens for over four decades.
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YouTube deletes conspiracy theorist David Icke's channel
YouTube has deleted conspiracy theorist David Icke’s account. The video-sharing site said the 68-year-old violated its policies on sharing information about coronavirus.
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YouTube warns more videos than usual could be removed as content moderation is automated amid coronavirus outbreak
YouTube said Monday that because of reduced in-office work, the platform is relying more on machine learning than on humans to review videos.
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BuzzFeed News is recruiting teenagers to make election-themed TikTok and Instagram videos
Three teens will be crowned ambassadors: "I feel it's really important to pass the mic to them."
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The rise of EduTube: how social media influencers are shaping universities
Popular vloggers are influencing how students learn and where they study. But are universities keeping up?
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An 8-Year-Old Made $26 Million on YouTube This Year, Topping a 5-Year-Old Who Made $18 Million
Forget lemonade stands. The big money is in children making content for children.
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Why the ‘Queen of Shitty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown
YouTuber Simone Giertz gave up wildly popular but barely functioning machines and confronted her fears of imperfection (while facing her own mortality and making an awesome Truckla EV).
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YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are Getting Burned Out.
Having achieved success, some top influencers are deciding to disconnect from the video-sharing platform, worn down by what some say are the demands of YouTube’s algorithm for fresh content to promote.
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'Very tired' PewDiePie to take break from YouTube
The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.
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The internet is roasting YouTube's 'Rewind 2019' video, with people calling it lazy and low-budget
YouTube's annual Rewind video was released Thursday, and has already accrued significantly more dislikes than likes from upset users.
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Billionaire Threatens to Sue YouTuber For Calling Him 'Fatty McFuckhead' and Photoshopping Him as Trump's Baby
Clive Palmer, an Australian billionaire often called the Donald Trump from Down Under, is threatening to sue YouTuber Friendly Jordies for defamation if he doesn’t pay $500,000. The popular YouTube personality and comedian, whose real name is Jordan Shanks, posted a video with the threatening letter he recently received from Palmer’s attorney which, among other things, claims that Palmer was defamed because the YouTuber called him “Fatty McFuckhead” and a “dense Humpty Dumpty.”
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YouTube backtracks on taking badges away from creators after outcry
Almost a complete reversal of new policies
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YouTube creators may lose verified badges as company makes verification program even stricter
YouTube is rolling out changes to its verification program for creators, making it tougher for growing channels to earn a checkmark beside their name and removing verification badges from people who don’t meet the heightened criteria.
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YouTube creators have begun shifting channels after FTC fine leaves futures in jeopardy
Creators describe it as "kind of detrimental."
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'Like you've been fired from your job': YouTubers have lost thousands of dollars after their channels were mistakenly demonetized for months
YouTubers can get their entire channels demonetized, losing out on their livelihoods, only for YouTube to restore their channels without explanation.
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YouTube is deleting videos of robots fighting because of ‘animal cruelty’
'Forcing animals to fight is not allowed on YouTube,' the site's guidelines state
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YouTube sues alleged copyright troll over extortion of multiple YouTubers
Minecraft and gaming creators were allegedly affected.
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College football player loses scholarship over his YouTube channel
YouTube views can translate into serious dollars, but if you're a student athlete, you may want to think twice about trying to earn money on the platform. A football player for the University of Central Florida has lost his place in the team, and hence his scholarship, due to his YouTube channel. UCF kicker Donald De La Haye runs "Deestroying," which has over 90,000 subscribers and has amassed 5 million views, thus far. It's not the channel itself that cost him his scholarship, though -- it's the fact that he has athletics-related videos on a monetized account.
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YouTube tests letting ad bans be appealed by filming a YouTube video
Making it easier for creators to earn money
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