YouTube’s Celebrity Takeover

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Celebrities coming to YouTube is hurting small creators. And YouTube knows it.
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YouTube vs. Books: Can video compete with text for self-education?

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With the proliferation of educational content on YouTube, will written resources eventually become extinct? Let's dig into the YouTube vs. Books debate.
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The Commodity of Attention

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As YouTubers, we’re not as much in the video business as we’re in the attention business. We use our video-making skills to capture attention,...

Well. There goes BuzzFeed

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By now, most everyone with an internet connection has heard that BuzzFeed has gone through some major layoffs in the past months. Roughly 15%...
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Missteps in the evolution of performative gaming: Outpost Games’ SOS

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The gaming community, and streamers in particular, have more influence than ever when it comes to game development — both over individual titles ...
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The only company that can compete head to head with YouTube

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Although people have suspected that YouTube’s main competitor would eventually be Facebook — i.e., the other half of the advertising duopoly — the only company poised to seriously...

GIFs are Improving Modern Language. Here’s How.

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Early uses of animated GIFs online were mainly for decoration. Web designers unironically plastered their sites with tacky, digital animations seemingly in a competition...

Maintaining a YouTube Channel Long Term Requires a Creatively Sustainable Content...

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Big name YouTubers are starting to crack. PewDiePie, Casey Neistat, and Jacksepticeye are just three among many who have expressed stress over the pressure...

The Problem of Authenticity for the YouTube Creator

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“Be yourself” has become the mantra of YouTube creators everywhere — but what does that actually mean? In 2017, Savannah Brown’s channel went dark. This young adult had...

Logan Paul is Doomed to Be a Maverick Forever

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Comments sections are full of speculation about YouTube’s apparent preferential treatment towards Logan Paul. Many have postulated that Logan is a cash cow, a...
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