Tag: youtube
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YouTube and Podcasts
Introduction Earlier this week, Google announced that their Google Podcasts app will be discontinued in 2024. They are instead pointing listeners to YouTube Music: “Looking forward to 2024, we’ll be increasing our investment in the podcast experience on YouTube Music — making it a better overall destination for fans and podcasters alike.” To facilitate this…
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Trent Park in the Snow
It properly snowed in London last night for the first time in a few years, so I went out in the pre-dawn snow on my E-MTB and my drone to capture some of the beauty of the countryside around Trent Country Park. There’s a lovely path leading from close to Chase Farm Hospital that takes…
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YouTube Ads Are Not Smart
Like many people, I watch a fair bit of YouTube. A surprisingly large amount I watch via an app on my TV, but I also watch all kinds of how-to tutorials on my PC. And with YouTube videos come ads. I’m a YouTube Music subscriber (previously Google Play Music) so it’d only be another £2…
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Twitter’s Algorithmic Toxicity
This piece started life as a Twitter thread – ironically – which I posted recently. Read the thread here, or read on. Introduction I’ve recently come to the conclusion that many of Twitter’s toxicity issues essentially come as a consequence of their own software’s behaviour. Algorithms affect so many systems and businesses these days, that…
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Undercover Advertising
In the UK, we have some really tight restriction on what and how we are able to advertise. Ofcom has a Broadcasting Code. The Advertising Standards Authority has both Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Codes. Beyond these, there are EU wide codes, and industry codes. But frankly, the internet still appears to be the wild west. Panorama…
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Premier League TV Rights – 2019-2022
The new Premier League TV rights auction for the UK has just got under way, with bids due in at the end of January, and the results announced in early February. Such are the scale of these rights now, that the announcement tends to be made to accommodate the stock market. If a PLC is…
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YouTube-ing
YouTube is a wonderful thing. From music, to how to’s, to clips from films and TV, to game walkthrough’s and a myriad of thousand other subjects. But I confess, that I’ve always struggled with the “YouTubers.” Now that’s not to say that there aren’t personality-driven YouTube videos that I watch. There are the guys at…
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YouTube v Radio
I'm expecting a strong response from @matt @adambowie @DavidLloydRADIO and @Radiocentre https://t.co/xkiklRp7my — Phil Riley (@rileyorionradio) April 29, 2016 Since Phil Riley, Chairman of Orion Media, suggested it, I thought I’d have a look at what’s happening here. YouTube has just published a strong blogpost penned by Christophe Muller, Head of YouTube International Music Partnerships,…
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Sell Me Personal Use Music Rights
I like making the odd video, and invariable, I prefer to use music on the soundtrack. Given that I’m not about to commission my own music for my little projects, I have two choices. I can either use a music track I already know, or I can go to a music library and for a…
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Live Video Streaming
Last week Periscope, the live video streaming app now owned by Twitter, was released for Android. This came a month or two after it was first available on iOS. It isn’t alone in this marketplace – we also had Meerkat which got a leap on Periscope when it was released at SXSW. But the traction…
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Playlist Reversal
Since I got a Chromecast, one thing I’ve found really useful is the “Watch Later” playlist feature on YouTube videos. Someone sends you a link to a video, but you don’t have time to watch it now, and anyway, you’d prefer to watch it on a big screen. You simply click “Watch Later” and you…