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‘People are used to devouring things really quickly’: has TikTok killed the video star?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 5 April - 13:00 · 1 minute

Pop promos were once cultural events almost as important as the music they promoted. In an era of easily digestible bite-size content, the art form is in danger of being lost for ever

In increasingly turbulent times for the music industry, one aspect has remained steadfast: its passion for stats. At the start of the decade – with YouTube a strong metric of success after the collapse of CD sales – you couldn’t move for mind-bending figures being trumpeted about music video viewership. In 2021, for example, K-pop boyband BTS’s Butter video amassed a staggering 108m views in 24 hours, breaking a record that appeared to be eclipsed on a weekly basis. Butter now sits on a not-too-shabby 950m views, a figure dwarfed by Katy Perry’s jungle-based Roar (3.9bn), Mark Ronson’s retro fantasia Uptown Funk (5.1bn) and Luis Fonsi’s Justin Bieber-assisted 2017 smash, Despacito , which has 8.4bn views.

The two dominant global forces in recent years have been K-pop and Latin music, and their big-budget music videos still rule the roost (Shakira and the Colombian singer Karol G’s TQG video was viewed more than a billion times last year). For Anglo-American pop in 2024, however, a seismic shift has occurred: music video viewership has plummeted, Beyoncé and Drake have stopped releasing videos altogether and pop’s A-list are struggling to make a dent on a platform they previously dominated.

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YouTube avertit OpenAI de ne pas piquer ses vidéos pour entraîner Sora

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 5 April - 11:34

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Le patron de YouTube, Neal Mohan, ne sait pas si OpenAI se sert des vidéos hébergées sur la plateforme pour entraîner Sora, son IA qui génère des clips. Mais si c'est le cas, ce serait une infraction à ses règles.

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Google sues two crypto app makers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 4 April - 17:48

Google sues two crypto app makers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme

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Google has sued two app developers based in China over an alleged scheme targeting 100,000 users globally over four years with at least 87 fraudulent cryptocurrency and other investor apps distributed through the Play Store.

The tech giant alleged that scammers lured victims with "promises of high returns" from "seemingly legitimate" apps offering investment opportunities in cryptocurrencies and other products. Commonly known as "pig-butchering schemes," these scams displayed fake returns on investments, but when users went to withdraw the funds, they discovered they could not.

In some cases, Google alleged, developers would "double down on the scheme by requesting various fees and other payments from victims that were supposedly necessary for the victims to recover their principal investments and purported gains."

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Venezuela arrests YouTuber for ‘terrorism’ amid pre-election crackdown

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 16:55

Detention of influencer Oscar Alejandro Pérez at Caracas airport en route to southern national park raises free speech concerns

A popular Venezuelan YouTuber has been arrested in Caracas on terrorism charges as President Nicolás Maduro’s government steps up its crackdown on free speech ahead of upcoming elections.

Oscar Alejandro Pérez was detained in the capital’s main airport on Sunday by police on accusations of terrorism, his family said.

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La police demande à Google de révéler l’identité d’utilisateurs YouTube

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Sunday, 31 March - 13:00

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Une série d'ordonnances judiciaires aux États-Unis soulève de sérieuses préoccupations en matière de vie privée et de libertés civiles. Des enquêteurs ont exigé de Google la divulgation d'informations personnelles de dizaines de milliers d'utilisateurs ayant visionné des vidéos spécifiques sur YouTube : de quoi interroger sur la constitutionnalité de telles demandes et leur impact sur les droits des citoyens.

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Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 27 March - 20:25

Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

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Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called "Ghostbusters," designed to sneakily access encrypted Snapchat usage data to give Facebook a leg up on its rival, just when Snapchat was experiencing rapid growth in 2016.

The documents were filed in a class-action lawsuit from consumers and advertisers, accusing Meta of anticompetitive behavior that blocks rivals from competing in the social media ads market.

"Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted, we have no analytics about them," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who has since rebranded his company as Meta) wrote in a 2016 email to Javier Olivan.

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YouTube prend de nouvelles mesures pour les contenus générés par IA

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 26 March - 14:14

Youtube Ia Createurs (1)

Les créateurs devront désormais préciser lorsqu'un contenu est généré par IA. La plateforme de Google veut jouer la carte de la transparence.

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My son has learned a lot from YouTube, but he loves the screaming, blaring videos best | Séamas O'Reilly

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 24 March - 09:30

It’s not clear why they are so addictive for small children, but luckily there is a way to limit their consumption

My son likes YouTube. A lot. Most of the videos he watches are inoffensive, some are excellent. We’ve sat together riveted watching videos on everything from craft-making and sea-life to web-skills and basic coding.

His reading and maths comprehension have been demonstrably enhanced by ingeniously constructed tutorials on spelling and multiplication. I have a lot of time, too, for some of his favourite Minecraft and Lego tutorials, but for every lucid and witty piece of programming, there are several thousand which scream and blare hot nonsense directly into his brain.

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Danse avec les stars d’Internet quitte Twitch pour TF1 : et alors ?

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 20 March - 10:00

Michou, qui organise la version Internet de Danse avec les stars, a annoncé à sa communauté que la finale de l'émission serait diffusée sur TF1 en seconde partie de soirée. Nombreuses sont les personnes à s'offusquer de cette décision, perçue comme une victoire de la télévision traditionnelle sur Twitch.