YouTube’s recent policy changes around video views policy have raised the question - what counts as a quality view? In general, a view by YouTube’s definition hasn’t been fully disclosed because YouTube doesn’t want larger video producers to run ads, in which they believe inflates their view count, misleading views…
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In recent weeks, the (heated) debate around Net Neutrality sparked once again. As defined by the FCC, “The ‘Open Internet’ is the Internet as we know it. It's open because it uses free, publicly available standards that anyone can access and build to, and it treats all traffic that flows…
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For the past month, the viral breakout “Harlem Shake” videos have been immensely entertaining people around the world. The first video was uploaded on YouTube by five teens in Australia, and since then there have been 12,000 others that have reproduced the act. With 44 million impressions, talk about a…
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The saga of Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice, reminds me of that old nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday. From the moment he was discovered panhandling along a highway earlier this month in Columbus, Ohio, Williams went from white-hot media star and vocal oddity…
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