YouTube, Social Talent & MCN News

This post isn't about YouTube's current monetisation policy or how they're handling it. I am writing as someone who runs a YouTube channel as a business about how changes to the industry have affected my motivation based specifically on the type of content I produce.

A group of YouTube urban explorers recently posted a video making the bold claim that they had infiltrated the infamous Burlington Bunker in Corsham.

YouTube as become a very difficult landscape for Creators recently as YouTube as introduces changes which automatically demonetises videos that it deems not suitable for all advertisers.

It's been an odd but good year in my digital world. When the year started I had nine website, now I have just two. I've followed that old bit of advice, 'put all your eggs in one basket' - that's right isn't it?

A few weeks ago I received the first of many email invites to join TopBuzz, then the unwanted emails started coming in thick and fast. Did I consider joining? No, I would never consider becoming a customer of any organisation with such an aggressive and unethical recruitment campaign as this.

We don't have a brand, we don't have a name but we have a passion for content creation and online content distribution so we got together to talk about it. This episode is very much a podcast but if we continue then each episode will become more structured and I'm sure we'll eventually come up with a name for it.

We’ve all heard of the teens who have managed to amass hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views of their content, well that’s exactly what Whitney Wisconsin has done but her content is strictly NSFW.

If you've never experienced ASMR, then you're probably a little skeptical about whether the pleasurable, tingling sensation some experience on their scalp actually has any science behind it.

They may be the most cringeworthy music videos on the whole of YouTube but you can't help loving these ten awful songs for all the wrong reasons.

I thought I'd given you a perspective on my videos that you've probably never seen before and reveal the process of making one of my videos.

2016 wasn't a great year, there was Brexit, Trump and the death of countless celebrities but online the last twelve months have been good to me. Let's take a look back at my finest online moments of 2016.

Casey Neistat, one of YouTube's most prominent daily vloggers has announced to his 5.7 million subscribers that he is quitting video making.

The mannequin challenge has slowly been taking the internet by storm over the last week and now a collection of YouTube creators in London have come together in force to make the ultimate #MannequinChallenge video.

For the first time ever in the biannual Taking Stock With Teens survey, YouTube has overtaken cable television with teens saying they consume YouTube content more frequently the cable broadcasts.

If you're not live streaming on YouTube yet, then perhaps it's time to have a think about how you could make live content as over the last twelve months, the amount of people watching live content on the site has almost doubled.

This evening #YouTubeIsOverParty has been trending on Twitter as many YouTubers say that Google's new tightened rules on which videos are eligible for monetization means the end of the video platform.

This week it has been revealed that Google are harbouring to secrets plans to turn YouTube into a brand new social networking site to rival that of Facebook.

YouTube has opened the doors to its new Creators' Space in the King’s Cross area of central London. The new space is bigger and much much cooler than the old facility at Google's offices in Soho.

Starting a new YouTube channel is a daunting task. To begin with, your low subscriber count and handful of views can make you feel isolated and removed from the channels with millions of daily views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers. As a small channel on YouTube it's easy to feel lost or forgotten.

I've been a partner with YouTube MCN, Fullscreen for the best part of a year but now as the twelve month mark approaches I've decided not to let my contract automatically renew for a second year and to terminate my contract.