TuneCore – just “some company” – isn’t too happy with PewDiePie. For over a year, controversial YouTube personality Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg has engaged in a bitter war with T-Series. Both the YouTuber and the Indian label have battled for the most …
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YouTube Almost Overhauled Its Entire Creator Compensation System… Almost
YouTube has a growing problem with promoting conspiracy videos and unsafe content to kids. The issue almost prompted the company to overhaul its entire creator compensation model, according to details now emerging. Earlier this week, Bloomberg posted …
YouTube Music Licensing Platform Unveils Global Deal with Sony/ATV’s EMI Publishing
Will SoundVault’s deal help secure fair payments to labels, artists, and other song rightsholders? Historically, YouTube has provided incredibly low payouts to the music industry. For indie artists, those payouts are even worse. In 2017, Google’s popul…
YouTube Is Addressing Major Issues With Vague ContentID Claims
YouTube has come under fire for its vague requirements for Content ID claims. Critics says the system has been getting abused for years. This month, YouTube is making changes to its ContentID claims process. YouTube wants everyone to rely on its all-e…
Bollywood Label T-Series Tops PewDiePie’s YouTube Subscriber Count — If Only for a Moment
Team Bollywood briefly beat out PewDiePie for YouTube supremacy today — only to hand back the lead moments later. In case there’s any doubt about the importance that music wields on YouTube… Earlier today, Indian label T-Series briefly re-claimed its t…
YouTube Music Continues Its Google Home Expansion Into 10 More Countries
Google is well-known for introducing multiple versions of services and apps. YouTube Music is replacing Google Play Music, but it lacked integration with Google Home. YouTube Music also wasn’t available on Android Auto when the service launched, takin…
YouTube Music Continues Its Google Home Expansion Into 10 More Countries
Google is well-known for introducing multiple versions of services and apps. YouTube Music is replacing Google Play Music, but it lacked integration with Google Home. YouTube Music also wasn’t available on Android Auto when the service launched, takin…
Epic Games Pulls all YouTube Advertising Following Discovery of Pedophilia Videos
Epic Games has pulled all Fortnite pre-roll ads from YouTube following a discovery that the ads were playing on videos used by child predators. Update, Feb 20th 2:30 pm PT: It now appears that Disney is also pulling its spots from YouTube, though the c…
YouTube Overhauls Its Channel Strike System – But Will This Help the Music Industry?
YouTube has aimed to make its strikes system easier to understand and more transparent. YouTube has pushed a major update. On a post in its Creators Blog, the company confirmed it has updated its strikes system. At least for its existing Community Gui…
YouTube Says Its Live ‘Premieres’ Feature Is Getting Real Results
YouTube has congratulated itself for creating stealing Live Premieres, which has apparently proven very successful. Over the summer last year, YouTube unveiled brand-new copied monetization features. ‘Borrowing’ competitors’ ideas, Google’s popular vid…