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YouTube Pushes Back as the UK Considers New Media Rules
YouTube is urging British creators to respond to the YouTube UK media green paper consultation after the UK Government published…
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Google Expands AI Pro YouTube Bundle to Kenya
Google is widening the role of its paid AI subscriptions beyond chatbot access and cloud storage, adding YouTube Premium Lite…
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Neal Mohan’s Case for YouTube as the Creator Economy’s Center of Gravity
In the volatile landscape of digital media, a new power dynamic has solidified. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has articulated a…
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Everyone Sees The Views But Few See How Fragile Youtube Income Has Become In Kenya
The public image of online creation still leans toward freedom and upside. Work from anywhere. Publish often. Let the internet…
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Google TV’s Rapid Growth Masks Deep Monetization Challenges Facing the Platform
Google’s decade-long push into the living room may be entering a new chapter — or a quiet retreat. Despite the…
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YouTube Begins Testing Native Collaboration Tags to Help Creators Grow Together
YouTube is experimenting with a new collaboration feature designed to give creators shared exposure, echoing similar tools already common on…
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YouTube vs Netflix in Streaming TV: How the Battle Is Shaping Global Viewing Habits
For years, Netflix treated the idea of competition as an abstraction. Its co-founder Reed Hastings once said sleep was the…
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YouTube’s 2025 Monetization Rule Change Will Demonetize AI-Generated and Reused Content
Starting July 15, 2025, YouTube will stop monetizing content that lacks real human input—especially videos with AI-generated voices, low-effort compilations,…
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As YouTube Dominates the Big Screen, TikTok and Instagram TV Apps Make Their Move into Streaming
Move over Netflix — TikTok and Instagram TV apps are coming for your couch time too. For years, social video…
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Why the Future of Creativity on YouTube Will Be Creator-Led, AI-Powered, and Fandom-Driven
When Neal Mohan took the stage at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this week, he wasn’t just there…
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Netflix Video Podcasts: A Strategic Shift or a Risky Gamble?
Netflix is entering the territory of video podcasts, which could mean a seismic shift in its content strategy. Recently, co-CEO…
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The YouTube Podcast Takeover: A Growth Opportunity or a Risky Evolution?
Podcasting is undergoing a dramatic change from an audio-based platform to one where video is the focus. The recent switch…
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Cracking Down on Clickbait: YouTube Targets Misleading Content
YouTube is taking action against deceptive clickbait titles and thumbnails, especially for videos related to breaking news or current events,…
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The Pivot to Video: How YouTube, TikTok Are Redefining Podcasts
In this year’s YouTube Music Recap, my number one podcast was Waveform—it didn’t appear on my top five from Spotify’s…
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YouTube Brings New Changes to Its Video Player Interface
YouTube is changing the interface of its video player. Google, its parent company is testing new features on the video…
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YouTube Premium and YouTube Music now available in Kenya
YouTube today announced that YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are now available in Kenya. YouTube Music (Individual) is priced at…
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YouTube reinstates Donald Trump’s account two years after suspension
YouTube has reinstated former US President Donald Trump’s channel after suspending it two years ago. The account was suspended one…
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NTV’s YouTube channel with over 2 million subscribers terminated for violating terms
NTV Kenya, a leading broadcaster in the country and the East African region had its YouTube channel brought down on…
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YouTube Shorts creators to start monetizing on February 1
YouTube has made changes to its Partner Program which outlines the terms and conditions under which creators engage with the…
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Safaricom’s YouTube Shorts Challenge Kicks-Off, KES 60 Million Worth of Prizes up for Grabs
Safaricom in partnership with YouTube has kicked-off a new YouTube Shorts Challenge which will see up to 3 million customers…
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YouTube Music and Premium services hits 80 million subscribers
YouTube Music and Premium launched their subscription-based service in 2018, after several false starts. The platform has risen to rank…
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YouTube is introducing user handles to make it easier for search and mentions
Nearly all social media platforms these days utilize user handles for easy identification and mention of user accounts. It started…
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YouTube rolls out new ways for creators to make money from Shorts
Big Tech media companies today are using every tool at their disposal to ensure that there is mutual benefits for…
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Teenagers Are Spending More Time On YouTube Than any other platform, Survey
There was a time when Facebook was the cool app that every teenager wanted to be. In fact, a survey…
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YouTube says Kenyan Creators Are Yet to Fully Exploit the Platform for Profit
Kenyan creators are making less money from YouTube than they should, the company has revealed. According to Addy Awofisayo, the…
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Crypto scammers hack British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts
Scammers briefly took control of the British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts, to promote a fake crypto scheme, the UK…
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YouTube is Inviting Content Creators to Apply for $100 million Black Voices Fund
YouTubers from around the world have yet another chance to apply for the Black Voices Fund, an initiative spearheaded by…
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YouTube Go is Shutting Down in August
YouTube Go, the lite version of YouTube that the company introduced in 2016 will be discontinued in August, the company…
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PesaCheck and other fact-checking organisations urge YouTube to combat spread of misinformation on the platform
PesaCheck, and its parent organisation, Code for Africa (CfA), have joined with over 80 other International Fact-Checking Network members from…
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YouTube Suspends Trump’s Channel
Last week’s storm at the US Capitol has given US President Donald Trump an uneasy time in his country, as…
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Database with Millions of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Profiles Exposed
A database containing data of nearly 235 million users across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube has been breached. The database stored…
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YouTube News Views Jump By 75% On Thirst For Coronavirus Updates
The Coronavirus crisis has changed how we live and despite many switching to working from home, some are just staying…
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Coronavirus: YouTube Is Now Defaulting Streaming Quality To 480p Globally For A Month
YouTube will be reducing the streaming quality of videos to SD format to help ease internet traffic. Starting yesterday, the…
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Here Is How Much Revenue Google Makes From YouTube
For the first time since Google acquired YouTube in 2006, we have the real figures that the company makes from…
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YouTube Ads are killing my user experience on the platform
YouTube has been a great deal to me since the time I started using the platform. The platform offers almost…
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Youtube’s Music Streaming Service, YouTube Premium launches in South Africa
In May 2018, Google announced that it was launching a new music streaming service known as YouTube Premium. The company…
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How YouTube is helping reclaim the lost art of apprenticeship
We live in a fast-paced century. Half the time at work is spent keeping up with and adapting to new…
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YouTube is launching a music streaming service next week
YouTube is launching a new music streaming known as YouTube Music next week on May 22nd. The company says the…
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Tired YouTube’s 30-second ads? Google is killing them off
Are you one of those people who hate those 30-second ads that appear before you can watch a YouTube video?…
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Meet YouTube Community, YouTube’s new Social Networking feature
We all love Youtube, but who thought Google would one day think of having a social networking feature on it.…
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Have You subscribed to TechTrendsKE ‘s New YouTube Channel?
We have a New YouTube channel up and running. Have you subscribed? This channel will be featuring weekly roundups of…
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Google opens News Lab to teach journalists
Google has launched an online lab where journalists can learn or sharpen internet age reporting skills. The News Lab mission…
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YouTube drops Adobe Flash for HTML5 video as default web player
YouTube has dropped Adobe Flash platform as the standard way to play its videos for HTML5. This now means HTML5…
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Could Facebook be planning to be the next new YouTube?
Could Facebook Video be the next big video sharing platform after YouTube? Well, maybe yes. According to new statistics released…
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Youtube annouces its new music subscription service
Google has officially announced a new music subscription service that takes advantage of YouTube’s vast collection of music and existing…
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YouTube considering getting rid of ads, to introduce subscription-based billing
Ever opened youtube and the first thing you see are those increasingly annoying pre-roll ads that appear before you watch…
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Google to make YouTube videos available offline In India
Google is planning to make YouTube videos available offline in India, allowing people to save on download charges for watching…
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Google’s new music subscription service to be known ‘YouTube Music key’: Report
By Nixon Kanali, Nairobi Kenya You might have heard about Google’s long-expected YouTube music subscription service. Earlier on, Android Police…
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