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YouTube's new move for creators will help them earn money: Here's how

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The YouTube is facing increasing competition from other platforms using more and more video YouTube, often criticized for not compensating creators well enough, will allow them to set up paid channel memberships, the company said on Friday. Currently, the vast majority of revenue at the Google-owned service comes from advertising and that will remain a focus, said Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief products officer. "But we also want to think beyond ads. Creators should have as many ways and opportunities to make money as possible," he said. Viewers will pay $4.99 a month for channel memberships giving them access to exclusive content including livestreams, extra videos or shout-outs on channels with more than 100,000 subscribers. Creators will also be able to sell merchandise like shirts or phone cases directly on their channels, the company said. YouTube returns a small part of its advertising revenue to content creators who regularly accuse the p...

YouTube shooting: Shooter Nasim Aghdam identified in California; 10 updates

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YouTube employees recounted dramatic scenes as they fled the headquarters of the Google-owned video sharing service near San Francisco A woman opened fire at the YouTube headquaters today in the US state of California, wounding three people before killing herself, officials said, calling it a prima facie case of domestic dispute. The suspect, who died of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, has been identified as 38-year-old Nasim Aghdam, two police officials were quoted as saying by the NBC. The headquarters of YouTube, a video-sharing service owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, in San Bruno near Silicon Valley has a significant number of Indian-American professionals. Officials said they believe the motive behind the incident was a domestic related-dispute and is not terror-related at this point of the investigation, the report said. The woman shot three people at the YouTube headquarters in Northern California, officials said. As people scrambled off the patio ou...

Netflix, YouTube & more: Airtel Internet TV launched at Rs 7,999 annual pay

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It comes preloaded with Netflix, YouTube, Google Play Music, Google Play Games, Airtel Movies Airtel Digital TV, the direct-to-home arm of Bharti Airtel, on Wednesday launched 'Internet TV -- powered by Android TV, which brings online content to the TV screen along with a bouquet of over 500 plus satellite TV channels, the company said. Airtel 'Internet TV' transforms any TV into a Smart TV and enables users to switch seamlessly between online and linear TV content with a single device. It is priced at Rs 4,999 with three month Digital TV subscription. Also, for a limited period, customers can pay Rs 7,999 and get the   Airtel Internet TV   with one year subscription. Airtel 'Internet TV' will be available exclusively on Amazon India starting on Wednesday. It will be available through Airtel Digital TV touch points -- retail stores/website/contact centres soon after online launch, a company statement said. "Customers can stream and cast their fa...

United Airlines could have avoided PR nightmare by following economics 101

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According to reports, airlines routinely overbook their flights leading inconvenience to passengers On April 9, a passenger was forcibly removed from a  United Airlines  flight from Chicago O’Hare to Louisville after the carrier was unable to find volunteers to accommodate four of its employees on standby. Dramatic videos of the incident have gone viral on YouTube and social networks, and I reckon the resulting cost of this PR disaster will likely make United’s CEO wish he had sent in a private jet to ferry those employees to Louisville (which the airline could easily have afforded, given its net income of US$2.3 billion in 2016). ALSO READ:  United shares fall after worldwide backlash over dragged passenger Many articles have reported that airlines routinely overbook their flights, and sometimes passengers have to accept (voluntarily or not) the inconvenience of getting to their destination later than planned. As an airline economist, I do not recall, howev...

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube face hate speech complaints in France

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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube face hate speech complaints in France Three French anti-racism associations said on Sunday they would file legal complaints against social networks  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Google 's  YouTube  for failing to remove "hateful" content posted on their platforms. French law requires websites to take down racist, homophobic or anti-semitic material and tell authorities about it. But French Jewish students union UEJF and anti-racism and anti-homophobia campaigners SOS Racism and SOS Homophobie said the three firms had removed only a fraction of 586 examples of hateful content the anti-racism groups had counted on their platforms between the end of March and May 10. Twitter removed only four percent, Youtube seven percent and Facebook 34 per cent, according to the associations. "In light of Youtube, Twitter and Facebook's profits and how little taxes they pay, their refusal to invest in the fight against hate is unacceptable,"...

For Google, India to become bigger market than US by next year: Pichai

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai  has said he believes India will become a bigger market for the company than the United States sometime in the middle of 2016. In an interaction with half a dozen journalists in New Delhi on Wednesday, Pichai said it was not just with regard to the use of Android-based phone devices that India would scale ahead of the US; there also were many areas of technological development where India will become its first market for experimentation and trial before launch in other markets of the world. “We developed the offline version of YouTube in India, tried it here and are now taking that to other countries,” Pichai said in what was his first media address after taking over as Google CEO in August this year. Pichai, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur who joined Google in April 2004 within days of the company launching Gmail said it was an emotional experience for him to come to India and launch these initiatives in this country. Elaborating on the Google Loon proje...