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You're making it out to be a decision, but it's not. Creators can upload their content on several platforms and collect revenue from all.
Just because they can collect revenue from other platforms doesn’t mean it will be sufficient or anywhere near what they were getting at YouTube.
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You would need a mass exodus of top YouTube creators to make the slightest dent on YouTube's bottom line. Meanwhile, any top YouTube creator leaving YouTube (to what alternative?) isn't hurting his or her bottom line, but rather nuking it from orbit.
You're making it out to be a decision, but it's not. Creators can upload their content on several platforms and collect revenue from all.
It reminds me of the fact that the "Fake Mr Beast giveaway" ads that even raised some attention here on Hacker News [1] a while ago are still around. In fact, I have seen one yesterday. Those must have been flagged as impersonation and scam thousands of times by many people, including me personally, and Youtube finds them perfectly fine. After that episode, where I tried myself to get rid of them, I am much more conv…
Nintendo lawyers were surely all over that. I’m shocked it took so long to get them removed.
I’m glad YouTube banned ad blockers so we can all see quality sponsors like this.
I’m happy the adblockers still work in Firefox, but I’m also not sure you can really fault the advertisement company for not allowing you to use advertising blockers in their own products.
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Why would Youtube care to police bad actors? They are taking this money directly to their quarterly revenue.
Everyone focuses on how scamming and AI is evolving. I'm rather curious how this will affect marketing. Celebrity endorsements is useful for building trust. I wonder if we see more or less of that in the future.
Are celebrity endorsements actually useful for building trust? Usually i view them in a negative light, thinking that they just paid someone to promote the product, rather that a genuine and organic endorsement.
I can't imagine this is highly controversial. Of course celebrity endorsements can be useful for building trust. This is supported observationally and by years of research in marketing psychology. It's not even necessarily limited to megastars : even endorsements from niche influencers and small-fish content creators can be marketing goldmines, nevermind the kind of overnight headwinds your product can get if someone with the reach of Oprah, Rogan, Musk et al starts pushing it.
I am curious to see how those facial liveness check systems will adapt to this reality. They are a key pillar in the KYC and fraud prevention process in the fintech space.
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to but the closest thing I'm aware of is video calls in Germany where you are asked to show your ID card. Those certainly wouldn't be easy to fool without being able to do this at runtime and consistently showing an altered ID with all safety features intact. The agent will give you specific instructions on how to hold your ID and where to put your face while also switching…