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Man From Rural Odisha Earning Lakhs With Food & Cooking Videos On YouTube

Pandemic has ruined livelihoods. But this unassuming man from a nondescript village in Odisha has turned it into an opportunity – a big one! In a span of a year or so, Isak Munda has become a hit on YouTube and is earning lakhs.

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  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google withdraws YouTube app from Amazon Fire TV

London: Google has blocked YouTube on Amazon’s Fire TV earlier than expected amid growing rivalry between the two tech giants as their businesses continue to overlap. The move is in retaliation for Amazon’s refusal to sell some Google products that compete with the retailer’s gadgets, and Fire TV devices now encourage people to access YouTube […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Facebook signs multi-year music deal with Universal

San Francisco: Taking on music streaming giants like Google-owned YouTube, Facebook and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced a global, multi-year agreement reportedly worth several hundred million dollars. As part of the deal, UMG will become the first major music company to license its recorded music and publishing catalogues for video and other social experiences […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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YouTube to hire 10,000 people to root out bad content

London: YouTube will hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with curbing content that endangers children. Susan Wojcicki, Chief Executive of the Google-owned video-sharing site, said that “bad actors are exploiting” YouTube to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm”. “We will continue the growth of our teams, […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Child abuse: YouTube cracks down on child-exploiting channels

San Francisco: Cracking down on abuse and child-exploiting channels and videos, YouTube on Wednesday announced it will remove content on the platform that attempts to pass as being “friendly for kids”. “While some of these videos may be suitable for adults, others are completely unacceptable, so we are working to remove them from YouTube,” Johanna […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Facebook launches new app for video creators

San Francisco: To take on Google-owned YouTube, Facebook has announced new app for video creators to join its platform. Called Facebook Creator, the app will help the community create original video, go live with exclusive features and connect with their community on the social media giant. The app has been launched globally on the iOS […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Indians prefer YouTube for music, Facebook for news: Study

New Delhi: Indian internet users largely consume music content on Youtube, while they prefer to catch news updates on Facebook, a study has showed. The findings showed that over three billion views music videos scored the highest viewership on Youtube, followed closely by entertainment videos with 2.4 billion views, while video content for kids ranked […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of you' creates history in India

New Delhi: Grammy Award-winning singer Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of you” has become the first international song in India to cross 200 million views on YouTube, Sony Music Entertainment India announced on Thursday. “This is the first song in India that has reached the 200 million views mark and frankly with all the success the song has […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Facebook launches YouTube competitor called 'Watch'

San Francisco: In an apparent bid to take on Google-owned YouTube, Facebook has rolled out ‘Watch’ – a redesigned video platform for creators and publishers. The social media giant last year launched ‘Video’ tab in the US which offered a predictable place to find videos on Facebook. “Now we want to make it even easier […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
'Shape of you' most watched international video in India

New Delhi: Grammy Award-winning singer Ed Sheerans “Shape of you” is the most watched international video on YouTube in India. The song, which released in January, also has a huge number of covers on the video sharing website. “We knew we had a hit the day the song was released. It’s appeal is universal as can […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Now watch historic NASA flight videos on YouTube

New York: If you are a space buff get ready to watch videos of rare historic test flight, launch and landing footages on YouTube, media reports said. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Centre in California was currently in the process of uploading hundreds of archival videos, including those of hypersonic jet takeoffs and shuttle landings, the Verge […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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YouTube ad boycott may cost Google $750 mn

New York: The boycott of video-hosting platform YouTube by advertisers could cost its parent company Google $750 million in revenue, a media report said. Over the past few weeks, major consumer brands, including Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo and McDonald’s have pulled out their ads from the platform as they are protesting the placement of their ads […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook videos dominate social media: Report

New York: Facebook videos continue to dominate the social media, driving growth, engagement and media consumption, a new report has said. Social media analytics platform Quintly examined 167,000 profiles during the last six months of 2016 and found that 47 per cent of those profiles used video of some sort in their Facebook campaigns, including video […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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YouTube TV '4K Plus' Tier Brings 4K Streaming

Google-owned video-streaming giant YouTube TV is introducing a new add-on that introduces 4K quality, downloads and unlimited simultaneous streaming on a home network to the Google live TV subscription service.

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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Aishwaryaa Dhanush to launch Youtube channel for short filmmakers

Chennai: Filmmaker Aishwaryaa Dhanush, wife of actor-producer Dhanush, will soon launch a YouTube channel under the banner of Ten Entertainment to exclusively promote original content and short films by aspiring filmmakers. This first of its kind channel will market and distribute original short film content in four southern languages – Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. […]

  • Saturday, 26 June 2021
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