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Sunday, September 11, 2016
YOUTUBE AD POLICY: CENSORSHIP OR GOOD BUSINESS PRACTICE? Advertising policy for content producers under fire.
(September
2016): Remember when the internet was like a wide-open frontier, where anyone
with an idea and a computer could start multi-million dollar ventures from
nothing? It was a “Wild West” of sorts,
with people staking their claim to niches and topics with no rules and
seemingly infinite potential. Internet stars popped up out of nowhere with
nothing but videos of raw talent, unrestrained vocabularies, and possibly the
video of someone being injured. These
internet “celebrities” mostly came from the website YouTube. Eventually, some
individuals became known as YouTubers (some vloggers fit into this category as
well) and commanded thousands if not millions of subscribers to their YouTube
channels. YouTubers were given a rare
opportunity to earn revenue from their popularity in the form of advertising on
their videos provided by Google.
For example, at the end of August there was a firestorm of online
protests by people known as YouTubers and vloggers as well as other creators of
online content about the media giant’s enforcement of their advertising policy
of removing the opportunity for advertising revenue from videos that are “not
advertiser friendly.” Although the
policy has been selectively and / or inadequately enforced ever since 2012, YouTube
emails detailing YouTuber videos whose advertising had been pulled for content,
and that the account holder can appeal the process. Social media has been in the news as of late
for such controversies as the vague line between testimonial and advertising of
products by celebrities on Instagram, and Facebook putting forth yet another
algorithm change attempt to crack down on click-bait headlines. Right now, The
YouTube algorithms are focusing on the descriptions and tags of videos,
searching for keywords that will flag a video as being “not advertiser
friendly.” However, the enforcement of
the policy is unpredictable and unevenly imposed to say the least; one video
that breaks all the rules with ads still active could be displayed on the same
screen as someone’s commentary on a news event that has been demonetized as a
result of YouTube’s algorithm flagging it as a video that contains “profanity
and vulgar language.”
TWITTER STARTS MARKETING TO PEOPLE WHOSE MEMORIES ON FACEBOOK ARE DEPRESSING AS HELL
(Silicon Valley, CA):
Facebook may be the #1 social media network in the world, but that may
soon change with Twitter’s announcement that it will begin marketing to people
whose Facebook ‘memories’ are depressing as Hell. One of Facebook’s many features is called
“Memories” in which a user is shown past posts from that calendar date that
will span from exactly one year prior to when the individual started their
Facebook account. For many, this is a
novel way to remember fun and interesting posts you may have forgotten, but for
a growing majority Facebook’s ‘Memories’ dredge up feelings of sadness and
despair that were better off left in the past. This trend hasn’t gone unnoticed by
Facebook’s biggest competitor, Twitter, who plans on capitalizing on the
unintended consequences of Facebook ‘Memories’ experienced by millions of
people worldwide.
“Twitter doesn’t dig up the past, we are all about the here
and now” stated Irene Russell of Twitter’s User Outreach Department. “We want users to be in a constant state of
discovery with funny tweets and famous celebrities making inspirational
comments in 140 characters [or less if they want their tweets to be retweeted,
or shared among other users]. Twitter does not force you to re-live detailed,
depressing events in your life, not even vague posts that consist of the sad
face emoji. Twitter users start fresh
every 30 seconds. It is this constant
renewal of ideas that we believe will appeal to Facebook users who are annually
reminded that they went through a terrible divorce three years ago or that they
found out that they were adopted two years ago.”
“I had just logged on Facebook this morning before work like
I do everyday” stated Kevin Cooper of Kansas City, MO “when I saw the memories
pop up on my phone. As I scrolled
through them a post from 2013 came up.
That day my cat had been accidentally hit by a car. Actually, it was my
car, and I was driving. All those feelings of loss and anguish came flooding
back. I shouldn’t have described it in
such detail, but at the time I thought people would want to know. Now I’m
depressed all over again, so I shared it with my friends and family… letting
them know just how I feel about seeing disheartening posts I made when I was
feeling miserable. I should have never taken a selfie with my dead cat, or made
that Vine of her final moments. I hope
when I see this next year I won’t get as upset reliving every second of it.”... [READ MORE]
BOOK PROMOTOR "LINK SWAPPING" WITH AUTHORS TO EXPAND EVERYONE'S AUDIENCE
The website CHAOSPIRATIONS is giving authors a place to put their book or blog links if the authors share the site's links on their site or blog. This is known as "LINK SWAPPING" and can increase the audience of both the author and promoter. Details are found on the tweet below.
📖 AUTHORS - I will link to your book and page if you share my website!#amwriting #books #marketing #linkbuilding pic.twitter.com/nydLIhINNR— cHaOsPiRaTiOnS (@chaospirations1) September 11, 2016
ALIENS POSTPONE INVASION UNTIL AFTER NOVEMBER ELECTION
(Mountain View, CA): The world has been waiting for
confirmation of intelligent life other than ourselves in the universe, but we
won’t have to wait much longer.
Officials from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
institute have recently made detailed contact with what is alleged to be an
intelligence from beyond our solar system, and they are coming to this planet
soon, but not before November 8, 2016.
According to SETI, the E.T.’s are going to wait until after the United
States presidential election to invade.
“They are coming” stated Hugh Manatee of SETI, who calls the
newly discovered beings the ‘visitors,’ and who was the first to discover the
astonishing message from outer space. “We found the signal about two days ago,
it stood out like a sore thumb compared to all the ‘noise’ we usually get. It was a binary signal, but in a format that
we were able to translate. After just a
short time we were able to understand what they were trying to communicate. However, the message wasn’t for us but rather…
about us.”
Going further into detail Hugh described the message to be a
communication between a fleet of spacecraft approaching the Earth. This armada of ships can now be faintly seen
with the unaided eye in the night sky over North America. It also seems that
the aliens are discussing strategies for their ultimate goal, invasion of the
planet. However, the extraterrestrial
invaders are going about the invasion in a manner that conserves energy and
resources, and they are waiting to see what happens after the November 2016
United States presidential election in order to finalize their plans. ... [READ MORE]
SPACE TENTACLES EAT CHICAGO: BRINGS ILLINOIS BUDGET WOES TO FOREFRONT
(Chicago, IL): If
you’re wondering what you are seeing in the skies over the windy city, you’re
not alone. Thousands of people gathered together outside Shedd Aquarium, Adler
Planetarium, Navy Pier, and even lined the windows of Chicago’s most famous
landmark, the Formerly Known as Sears Tower. It’s a bird, it’s a plane! No,
it’s hungry tentacles from space, and they are quite a spectacle to behold. High
overhead the world famous Chicago skyline are billowing, writhing clouds of
massive tentacles winding and swirling as if in random, haphazard
patterns.
Outside Shedd Aquarium, we caught up with an onlooker and
witness to Hastur’s terrible glory. “I was out here with my kids and Bobby
yells up at me, ‘Mommy! Octopus!’” stated Dana Shirefield as she and her two
children stood among the throngs of people outside Shedd Aquarium. “We had just
come out of the aquarium and I didn’t think anything of it but he kept yelling
until I finally looked up and saw about a dozen people get plucked up from the
far side of the parking lot and I screamed! Oh it gave me such a scare,
(laughing) I almost swallowed my gum! I screamed, the people being ripped apart
were screaming.” Mrs. Shirefield consoled little Bobby who was uncontrollably
sobbing while his older brother held his hand staring blankly to the sky.
“Mommy didn’t mean to scare you Bobby I just got startled is all.”
Whip like at the tip and enormously girthy as one follows
them to their origin, the tentacles are speculated to be the mouth parts of
some colossal beast that is in a stationary orbit over the city of Chicago, but
the size of the creature far above is impossible to judge because there is no
visibility beyond the tentacle-packed sky, making some residents ask the
question “is there anything to worry about?” ...[READ MORE]
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