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YouTube is updating the Shorts video editor to make it a better alternative to TikTok

Engadget

YouTube is updating the video editor for Shorts to better compete with the likes of TikTok and Instagram Reels, and teasing some AI-powered features that are coming later this year that might make it stand out. YouTube says you'll also be able to add music and timed text, and preview your video at any point while you're editing.

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Movie studios have been making serious money from AI slop on YouTube

Engadget

Regular YouTube users have likely noticed an abundance of AI-generated fake movie trailers this past year or so. Instead, they struck a deal with YouTube to ensure they got the ad revenue instead of the people that typed in a couple of prompts and did some light editing. The channels can appeal YouTubes decision.

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How Nonprofits Can Raise Money Using YouTube

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Chances are that if you are online, you’ve watched a YouTube video. YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world, with 73% of U.S. Pew Internet reported that over half of YouTube users say that the platform is at least “somewhat important for helping them understand things that are happening in the world.”. .

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MrBeast’s chocolate empire is making more money than his YouTube channel

Fast Company Tech

MrBeast is currently the most-subscribed YouTuber in the worldbut his biggest moneymaker isnt content. By contrast, his main media businessincluding his blockbuster YouTube channel and the Amazon Prime reality competition show, Beast Games brought in similar revenue but lost nearly $80 million over the same period. Its chocolate.

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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If the speed test fails, a good first step is to make sure your website’s images are optimized and host your videos on a third party website, such as YouTube, instead of directly on your website. Check the speed of your website using PageSpeed Insights. 9) Add a reCAPTCHA to your “Contact us” form.

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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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[DATA] 14 Must-Know Stats About How Nonprofits Use Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

45% use YouTube – up from 26% in 2019. 8%: YouTube. 14) Of the nonprofits worldwide who use YouTube, only 4% also use YouTube Giving Tools – 96% do not. When asked why their nonprofit does not use YouTube Giving Tools, the 96% responded: 51%: They had never heard of YouTube Giving Tools. 5% use TikTok.