YouTube
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With 40 New Original Shows, YouTube Targets TV’s Breadbasket
EghtesadOnline: YouTube plans to produce a half-dozen original series that will be available for free on the world’s most popular video website, a big expansion of the Google-owned company’s…
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Murdoch Seeks to Dent Google's Ad Dominance After YouTube Revolt
EghtesadOnline: Google’s pain may be Rupert Murdoch’s gain. Murdoch’s News Corp. is introducing a new service to ensure online ads don’t appear next to fake news or offensive videos, marking…
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Amazon's Twitch Wants More Game-Streamers to Make Money on Site
EghtesadOnline: Amazon.com Inc.’s video streaming site Twitch Interactive is making it easier for aspiring stars to make money, seeking to woo participants soon after Google’s YouTube made it…
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Business Chief Schindler says Google has flagged five times as many videos as too offensive for ads in recent weeks.
Google Updates Ads Policies Again, Ramps Up AI to Curtail YouTube Crisis
EghtesadOnline: Two weeks after companies began yanking ads from YouTube because they were popping up next to hateful videos, Google is trying yet again to halt the crisis.
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If anyone can train software to parse entire videos, Google can. But it still has work to do.
Google’s AI Hasn’t Passed Its Biggest Test Yet: Hunting Hate
EghtesadOnline: An advertiser boycott of YouTube is testing a critical and much-hyped part of Google's future: its prowess in artificial intelligence. Some experts in the field say the technology…
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YouTube Hate Videos Haunt Advertisers on Google
EghtesadOnline: Major advertisers across Europe and Asia are still appearing alongside extremist YouTube videos days after technology giant Google said it was taking steps to protect its clients…
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YouTube's Better-Than-TV Pitch Undermined by Offensive Video
EghtesadOnline: Four years ago, Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s business lead, confessed a mistake. "I thought that YouTube was like TV. But it isn’t," he said at Google’s annual advertising show. "YouTube…
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YouTube's bid to grab TV dollars imperiled by advertiser revolt
EghtesadOnline: The decision by a handful of high-profile consumer brands to pull advertising from Google’s YouTube over offensive content could threaten the site’s long-term strategy of stealing…
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Google apologizes to ad clients for YouTube content fiasco
EghtesadOnline: Google apologized on Monday for allowing ads to appear alongside offensive videos on YouTube as more high-profile firms such as Marks & Spencer and HSBC pulled advertising for…
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Broadcasters target viewers on the go amid stalling ad sales.
YouTube Meets Boob Tube as Europe’s Networks Chase the Young
EghtesadOnline: Since its founding in 1983, French pay-TV provider Canal Plus Group has become one of Europe’s top backers of films and television series, co-producing blockbusters such as Bridget…
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Web giants to cooperate on removal of extremist content
EghtesadOnline: Web giants YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database.