Last month, YouTube came under some fierce criticism when it confirmed that its Restricted Mode feature, which is designed to shield minors from offensive content, had been hiding a number of innocuous videos that touched on LGBT themes. (Among the blocked videos was one of a lesbian couple reciting their wedding vows.) The video giant […]
Twitch is opening its monetization features to thousands of additional users. The Amazon-owned live-streaming service announced a new revenue-sharing feature, called the Affiliate Program, that will be open to creators that fit even a low threshold of metrics such as time spent streaming and number of followers. The feature will launch later this month. Previously, […]
In the not-too-distant past, this would have seemed inconceivable. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google plans to introduce its own ad-blocking feature to its Chrome browser. The feature will work for both mobile and desktop. According to the Journal’s sources, the feature could be switched on by default. It would filter out ads that […]
There goes another one. Machinima, the Warner Bros. Digital Networks-owned media company geared toward gamers, has become the fourth company to leave the 2017 Digital Content NewFronts. Yahoo, Fullscreen and BuzzFeed were the other three. (A fifth company, Studio71, announced that its NewFront presentation will be a streaming-only affair, but it’s still part of the […]
Sony’s Crackle made a slew of new announcements at its upfront event, held at Sony Square NYC in Manhattan. In programming news, the company announced that it has greenlit a number of new titles. Those include two series executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson: The Oath, a scripted drama focused on gang subculture, and […]
Um, wow. At its F8 developers conference, Facebook revealed that it’s been researching brain-computer interface technology that will, in the words of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “one day let you communicate using only your mind.” The project is part of Facebook’s little-known consumer hardware lab Building 8. Building 8 chief Regina Dugan said that her team […]
The F8 conference brought some other announcements, including the launch of a ton of new Messenger features. For instance, the company unveiled a new tab, called Discovery, that enables users to browse and select bots from select partners, including Fandango, the Wall Street Journal, and Spotify. And the company is also introducing new “chat extensions,” […]
The Emmys have revamped their Interactive Media category for the 69th edition of the ceremony, adding four new category awards and a new juried award. The four revised categories: Outstanding Interactive Program, Outstanding Original Interactive Program, Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Within a Scripted Program, and Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Within an […]
What does it mean when you’re on the cusp of hitting 100 million subscribers, yet your subscriber growth still falls short of expectations? It means you’re Netflix. The streaming giant says it will hit the 100-million sub mark this weekend. But the company says it added 1.42 million U.S. subs and 3.53 million international subs […]
Snapchat will reportedly soon roll out a self-serve platform for Snap Ads, the app’s vertical video ad product. For most of the ad format’s existence, media buyers had to purchase Snap ads through a managed service; buyers would send an insertion order, and a Snapchat ads partner would manage and execute the buy. Since January, […]
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