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This morning, YouTube chose to temporarily demonetize creator Logan Paul due to a string of inappropriate videos were uploaded to the video platform. This afternoon, YouTube has now laid out steps it will take to stop and punish creators that upload videos that cause “widespread harm” to the community…

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At the start of this year, YouTube was at the heart of a major controversy surrounding one of the platform’s biggest names — Logan Paul. Now, a few weeks later, Paul has returned to his channel, but YouTube isn’t done taking action against him, this time disabling all revenue on his channel.

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YouTube’s 2017 was brutal on multiple fronts with the Google company already having announced several policy changes in response. The latest is related to news and government-funded YouTube channels that might not be immediately obvious to users.

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To put it nicely, 2017 was a brutal year for YouTube. After multiple incidents that lost the platform valuable advertisers, YouTube has created new automated systems to stop monetization on videos that potentially violate the site’s rules and instituted new regulations for its partner program.

For 2018, YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, has five priorities for creators…

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Over the course of 2017, YouTube launched and rolled out a more optimized version of its mobile app for developing countries. Starting today, YouTube Go is officially coming to over 130 more markets.

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As we revealed in our last teardown, YouTube for Android is finally working on a dark theme, as well as an Incognito mode. Those features are still in development, but in the meantime the latest version of the app is rolling out with an easier way to view your play history.

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After watching Bitcoin surge to insane prices just a few weeks ago, people everywhere have a heightened awareness of cryptocurrency. As such, some websites have been looking to cash in on the tech by using advertisements to take advantage of the power of visitors’ CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Now, it’s been discovered that attackers were using YouTube to do just that.

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Introduced last year, Official Artist Channels bring together videos from different accounts that musicians might maintain into one place to provide a more optimized layout. YouTube is now planning to merge those channels into a more unified one.

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Since its full launch in April, YouTube has been actively expanding its cord-cutting live television service with new cities, apps, and features. A new report today claims that YouTube TV has amassed just over 300,000 paying subscribers.

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Frequently marred by the presence of inappropriate content, YouTube now plans to be more proactive in policing its network. A report today revealed plans for an “Intelligence Desk” as part of an “early detection” initiative to remove videos before they spiral into controversy.

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YouTube has been struggling with a lot of issues in the past several months, and most recently, its biggest issue has surrounded one of its biggest content creators — Logan Paul.

In response to that and dozens of other issues that have been coming up for years on the platform, YouTube has made some big changes. One of those changes that will have the farthest reaching effects are the new qualifications for channel monetization, and they’re just a huge slap in the face to up and coming creators. Let me explain.

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In recent months, YouTube has faced criticism over controversial videos, with advertisers complaining about ads being displayed over questionable content. In response, YouTube is again raising the threshold for monetizing videos, while increasing manual review and promising more transparency.

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Earlier today, YouTube for Android jumped to version 13.0 (from 12.x) and with it hints at a number of new upcoming features in development. This includes a long-awaited dark theme, Incognito mode, and other changes that are already live in the app.

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With Amazon announcing that it would begin selling Chromecasts, it seemed that the retailer and Google were finally de-escalating long-running tensions. However, it seems that a deal hasn’t been reached in time as Amazon is telegraphing the impending 2018 block of YouTube to all Fire TV users.

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