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Tenet Media Paid YouTubers $100K Per Video for Just 7K Views
“Let's see, like maybe 12 dollars you know, for every like 10,000 views, and these YouTubers were getting a 100,000 dollars per video, and some of the videos on the tenant media channel were getting like 7000 views.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 4:13 Russia Funds Tenet Media YouTubers
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Callaghan: YouTube removed Channel 5's Miami Spring Break video for a week
“That first video, Miami Beach Spring Break, was taken down from medical misinformation for an entire week because someone said, fuck COVID. Yeah, and said they didn't want to get vaccinated. They got taken down for a whole week.”
Andrew Callaghan Jun 9, 2021 ▶ 39:43 Andrew Callaghan of All Gas No Brakes Goes Independent
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Streaming grew 6 percent overall while Netflix market share remained completely flat
“So streaming over the past year has been up six percent. Netflix has been flat. In terms of it's the share of streaming or Netflix growth has been no. Netflix has not increased share despite the fact that streaming as a percentage of all TV or screen viewing h…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 42:20 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
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Murdock: DeepMind's MuZero algorithm dramatically reduces YouTube streaming bandwidth
“We were able to take an algorithm developed for games. That was a master in chess and use that to dramatically reduce the bandwidth requirement to stream YouTube videos.”
Colin Murdock Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 13:30 Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
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Kantrowitz: 73% of teens use YouTube daily, 15% constantly
“Overall, 73% of teens say they go on YouTube daily. This share includes 15% who describe their use as almost constant.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 8:34 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
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