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Should You Use Autoplay for Videos on Your Website?

Association TV

Hold on, when did websites start using video anyway? The first time a website hosted a video was way back in 1997 on a site called shareyourworld.com (now defunct, so you might end up in a risky site if you try to find it), which was similar to present-day YouTube.

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YouTube by the numbers: uncovering YouTube's ghost town of billions of unwatched, ignored videos

TechSpot

A team of researchers led by Ethan Zuckerman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has devised an ingenious approach to peek behind YouTube's tightly guarded curtain. They developed a program that essentially "guesses" random video URLs until it stumbles upon legitimate uploads. Read Entire Article

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Doug Scott , the founder of Tectonic Video , a leading video agency for nonprofits. and around the world to create award-winning videos that drive results. Imagine that you’re scrolling through Facebook or Instagram and start watching a video from a nonprofit organization. My team at Tectonic Video wanted to find out.

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YouTube Giving Tools: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Currently in beta, YouTube has released a new suite of giving tools for a small number of nonprofits in the U.S., For now, and perhaps always, YouTube is covering the donation processing fees and the tools are as follows: 1. Fundraisers allow individuals to donate to creator-led campaigns directly on YouTube via a “Donate” button.

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YouTube will run ads on some creator videos, but it won’t give them any of the revenue

The Verge

Starting today, YouTube will begin running ads on some creators’ videos, but it won’t give them a portion of the ad revenue because they’re not big enough to be enrolled in its Partner Program. Advertising is big business for YouTube and its parent company, Google, with the video site generating $5 billion in the last quarter alone.

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Tell Your Nonprofit Story Through Video

NonProfit PRO

In his latest blog, Duke Haddad talks about how he learned a long time ago that video is vital to nonprofit storytelling to educate prospects, donors, and other constituencies by showing the impact a nonprofit makes on a community.

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YouTube is limiting video views for ad-blocker users

TechSpot

A Redditor spotted the YouTube warning a couple of days ago and posted the pop-up message. It states in bold letters that "Video player will be blocked after 3 videos," followed by an explanation that YouTube playback will be blocked unless the site is whitelisted or the ad blocked disabled. Read Entire Article

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