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YouTube is now siding with its content creators over games publishers. In a blog post called ‘A Step Towards Protecting Fair Use on YouTube‘, Google copyright legal director Fred von Lohmann says that the firm is going to be defending Fair Use going forwards. As such, it will be refusing …
Read More »PewDiePie: Using Adblock doesn’t mean you’re clever or above the system
The increasing use of Adblock is having a devastating effect on smaller YouTube channels, video star PewDiePie has said. In a blog post explaining the reasoning behind YouTube’s new paid subscription service YouTube Red, Kjellberg states that around 40 per cent of his viewers use Adblock. And the trend is …
Read More »PewDiePie among YouTube’s first subscription stars
YouTube Red has already enlisted the services of one of the biggest video stars on the planet – PewDiePie. His show is called Scare PewDiePie and, as the name suggests, sees the excitable Swede endure a series of unpleasant and scary situations. The idea is that Kjellberg won’t know what’s …
Read More »YouTube Red lets you skip ads and download videos for $10 a month
YouTube has launched its new premium offering, YouTube Red. The $9.99-a-month subscription allows viewers to watch YouTube videos without adverts, combatting the need for third-party plugins such as Adblocker. Subscribers will also be able to download and save videos to watch offline on their mobile devices – another long-requested feature …
Read More »Minecraft streamer buys $4.5m property in Hollywood – report
Popular Youtube content creator Jordan CaptainSparklez” Maron has reportedly purchased a $4.5m house in the Hollywood Hills. Variety reports the Minecraft-focused streamer has chosen a plot not far away from the Beverly Hills’ mansion Minecraft creator Notch purchased for a record $70m in December of last year. Maron’s YouTube channel …
Read More »MGS V, Super Mario Maker top YouTube’s trending games for September
YouTube has released its top ten trending” games from last month, with the chart showing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Super Mario Maker out in front for the period. Behind the pair, sports titles NBA 2K16 and FIFA 16 finished third and fourth respectively, though Madden 16 …
Read More »FIFA YouTubers robbed by online thieves
Six YouTube stars known for their hugely popular FIFA videos have been targeted by hackers. AnesonGib, W2S, Nepenthez, Nick28T, Bateson87 and matthdgamer have a combined audience of more than five million YouTube subscribers and post guides, tips and more video each week, with each video often seeing hundreds of thousands …
Read More »YouTube streaming hitting PS4 tomorrow
PS4’s 3.00 system update will be rolled out tomorrow, bringing with it the ability to stream gameplay to YouTube for the first time. You’ll see a new icon for YouTube on the Broadcast Gameplay Screen, accessible after hitting the Share button,” Sony said. Now you can live stream directly from …
Read More »Android game streaming coming to YouTube
Game streaming is about to go mobile. YouTube has announced that it is to introduce game streaming to its Android app at some as-of-yet unspecified point in the near future. The feature, which was announced at The Tokyo Game Show, is being pitched in part as an effort to appeal …
Read More »Soul Axiom dev: ‘Popular’ YouTuber wanted $22k for one video
Developer Wales Interactive has said that it was asked for a payment of $22,000 when it approached a YouTuber about possible coverage for its game. Ben Tester, the PR man for the Soul Axiom creators, said that the YouTuber in question had a few million subscribers”. He was told that …
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