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YouTube will remove ads and downgrade discoverability of channels posting offensive videos
After barring Logan Paul earlier today from serving ads on his video channel, YouTube has now announced a more formal and wider set of sanctions it’s prepared to level on any creator that starts to post videos that are harmful to viewers, others in the YouTube community, or advertisers. As it has done with Paul (on two occasions now), the site said it will remove monetization options on… Read More
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Original Content podcast: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ is eating us alive
The Cloverfield Paradox is the kind of movie where a character will straight-facedly declare: “This dimension is eating us alive!” The first trailer for the film hit during the Super Bowl, and Netflix released the movie itself as soon as the game was over. Paradox takes the vaguely-connected Cloverfield franchise into space, where an international team of scientists (including… Read More
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Hulu’s ‘Hard Sun’ trailer definitely makes me want to watch the new series
Hulu Original Hard Sun is streaming starting on March 7, and the show looks great based on this trailer. It’s a combination speculative fiction/detective show, based on a rare PRE-apoclaptic premise: The world is ending in five years, but it seems like much of the tension of this show might revolve around who knows that – and who doesn’t want anyone to find out. The show is… Read More
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Facebook picks up half-hour dramedy series starring Elizabeth Olsen
Facebook isn’t one to be outdone by Apple’s recent big content spending: It’s purchasing a 10-episode, straight-to-series half-hour drama-comedy series produced and starring Elizabeth Olsen. The production also includes Lizzy Weiss on board as showrunner, Kit Steinkellner as creator and lead writer and Master of None‘s James Ponsoldt as a directly and executive producer… Read More
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Viacom to launch its own streaming service this year
Is there room in the market for yet another streaming service? Viacom thinks so. The company, on its earnings call on Thursday, said it’s planning to launch its own ad-supported streaming service by September 2018, the end of its fiscal year. The service will include “tens of thousands of hours of content” from across Viacom’s library. Viacom had hinted about its plans… Read More
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YouTube suspends ads on Logan Paul’s channels after “recent pattern” of behavior in videos
More problems and controversy for Logan Paul, the YouTube star who caused a strong public backlash when he posted a video of a suicide victim in Japan. Google’s video platform today announced that it would be pulling advertising temporarily from his video channel in response to a “recent pattern of behavior” from him. This is in addition to Paul’s suspensions from… Read More
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This Old House launches its DIY website House One
Media executives sometimes say that their companies are like a startup — but in the case of This Old House, that’s actually kind of true, since Time Inc. sold the 40-year-old brand (best known for the home improvement TV show of the same name) to Eric Thorkilsen and TZP Growth Partners less than two years ago. Read More
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The real consequences of fake porn and news
There is a movement underway to ban involuntary porn, videos that use machine learning to superimpose faces of unwilling participants onto porn actors’ bodies. Yesterday, as TC noted, Reddit published a content policy banning such images and video. Other sites have similar policies. Porn, though, is merely the harbinger of a world of involuntary, fake content. Read More
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The first teaser trailer for ‘Venom’ has plenty of Tom Hardy, not much Venom
If you’ve been waiting to see what the new movie version of Venom will look like — well, keep waiting. Venom stars Tom Hardy (!) as Eddie Brock/Venom, and the film’s first teaser trailer has plenty of Hardy as Brock, plus glimpses of fellow cast members Michelle Williams (!!) and Riz Ahmed. Sadly, though, it lacks any footage of Venom in-costume. For those of you who… Read More
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Brainjunk and the killing of the internet mind
Michael Pollan, the best-selling author of food books including the The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food Rules, summarized his philosophy of eating quite simply. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” The idea was to spend more on quality, and avoid the sorts of junk food that are deeply unhealthy for our physical bodies. I think it’s well past time to borrow that… Read More
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Viacom acquires VidCon, a gathering of YouTube stars and fans
Viacom has acquired VidCon, a move that seems designed to help the media giant connect with younger audiences. Viacom’s blog post describes VidCon as “the premier event for the worldwide online video community,” drawing more than 30,000 attendees to its flagship conference in Anaheim, Calif. (It’s also held smaller events in Amsterdam and Melbourne.) The company was… Read More
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The showrunners behind ‘Game of Thrones’ have signed on to write some ‘Star Wars’ movies
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the writers who turned George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novels into a television phenomenon, will be writing and producing a new series of Star Wars films. Read More
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Twitch now has 27K+ Partners and 150K+ Affiliates making money from their videos
Twitch today announced new metrics related to the growth of its game streaming service, including, most notably, that the number video creator Partners who profit from their Twitch content has climbed to 27,000 over the course of 2017, and the number of Affiliate streamers reached 150,000. Until mid-2017, Twitch had only allowed a smaller subset of its creator community to make money from… Read More
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Tech4Reporters pitches a new hub for journalists to connect with tech experts
Technology reporting has become a function of every single major news beat these days. It’s increasingly important that reporters get a good grounding in the technology that’s transforming their beats to avoid basic errors. For John Biggs, the problem became so acute in the reporting he was seeing from major news sites that he decided to do something about it. Read More
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Apple’s Shazam takeover triggers competition review in Europe
The European Commission has announced a review of Apple’s acquisition of music discovery service Shazam — agreeing to a request made by several countries to weigh competition concerns. Read More
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At last an end to geoblocking in Europe? Nope, not by a long chalk…
Hold your horses. Geoblocks for stuff like Netflix and Spotify are still not being vanquished in this round of EU Digital Single Market regulation chess… Read More
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Get your first look at ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ in the new trailer
Alden Ehrenreich seems to basically channel Harrison Ford in a couple of scenes in this brand new short teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, which is coming out May 25 in the U.S. He nails the instant, ‘just a good dude’ grin that Ford brought to bear on Solo in the original trilogy. As for the rest of it, what we seem to have is a heist movie, although that point… Read More
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Cloverfield Paradox review: Netflix combines every space scream
Where did Cloverfield’s don’t-call-it-Godzilla come from? This Gravity meets Event Horizon flick mashes up the scariest things outside our planet to provide an answer. A new Netflix original film, “The Cloverfield Paradox,” is now available after a surprise announcement during the Super Bowl. Producer J.J. Abrams is back for a third-installment that’s tense… Read More
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