Patreon’s newest partnership might entice more podcasters to join its platform. The company is teaming up with Acast to host its users’ podcasts and make it easier for them to distribute private, subscribers-only episodes. Currently, Patreon members that charge for access to a bonus podcast feed have to give each listener a link to a private RSS feed. The listeners then have to input that feed into the podcast player of their choice. It’s a manual, unsophisticated process that ultimately could result in people canceling their subscriptions but still retaining the link to the show. Now, however, Acast is integrating its “Access” technology with Patreon to streamline that process.

With it, Patreon podcasters will be able to better gate their feeds and only provide access to people who have paid, which is good for Patreon because it makes it easier for podcasters to get started monetizing their shows and maintaining their listener bases. Podcasters will also have access to Acast’s analytics dashboard, which will give them more info about how people listen. For listeners, they won’t have to manually input the private RSS feed link into their podcast player of choice and can instead tap a button inside Acast that’ll handle that for them. (It’s worth noting that Spotify doesn’t allow for private RSS feeds, so members can’t listen there and will need to use some other podcast app.)

The basic features are free, but podcasters will have to pay more to access other features like a customizable podcast website or unlimited episodes or downloads. They can still host their podcasts through Patreon, but Patreon is planning to market this Acast solution as the preferred method for distributing shows.

For Acast, this partnership is beneficial because it’ll be hosting all of the Patreon users’ shows on its servers, meaning it has more podcast data. In theory, this could also set the company up to offer additional monetization opportunities, like if Patreon podcasters eventually wanted to have ads sold for their shows in addition to monetizing their listener bases.

Ad deals are becoming more critical to the podcasting ecosystem. Yesterday, iHeartMedia and Pushkin Industries signed an exclusive ad-selling deal, for instance, giving it even more opportunity to generate revenue. Although Patreon and Acast aren’t speaking about potential ad revenue opportunities, the possibility is there, which could help them, and the creators who use their platform, make more money.

Source: theverge

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In a blog post published by Youtube, Youtube Music will replace Google Play Music by December 2020. Over the past couple of months, Youtube have been welcoming Google Play Music listeners to Youtube Music. Now users will have the opportunity to transfer their music libraries from Google Play Music to Youtube Music in that timeframe.

Secondly, in the coming months, Google play music users will no longer be able to stream from or use the Google Play Music app. Additionally, Youtube are making changes to the Google Play store and Music Manager.

Youtube will be holding onto things like your playlists, uploads, purchases, likes and more until December 2020 to make your transfer to YouTube Music easier. Users who wish to transfer their music libraries from Google Play Music to YouTube Music, can do so through December 2020, after which their Google Play Music libraries will no longer be available.

Simple transfer and additional changes to Music Manager

Starting in late August, users will no longer be able to purchase and pre-order music or upload and download music from Google Play Music through Music Manager.

To ensure users don’t lose any of their content, they’ll need to use the simple transfer tool to migrate any purchases over to YouTube Music or use Google Takeout to export data and download their purchased and uploaded music. Once the Music Store is no longer available, users will continue to be able to upload any tracks purchased elsewhere to YouTube Music.

For Google Play listeners that have not yet started the transfer process over to YouTube Music, now’s the time. Listeners can also choose to delete their Google Play Music data, and Youtube will clearly notify all users before they lose access to their Google Play Music library and data.

Over the last few years, Youtube have worked to build a fantastic fan experience on YouTube Music, merging the very best of Google Play Music with the very best of YouTube. For users who decide not to transfer their Google Play Music account to YouTube music, Youtube will be sure to cancel your subscription at the end of your billing cycle so you aren't paying for a subscription. And, of course, Youtube will be sure to notify all users ahead of subscriptions being cancelled.

source: Youtubeofficialblog

 

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YouTube has removed more than 11.4 million videos in the second quarter of this year.

The company said in a statement that the videos, which were found to be against the company's standards and guidelines, had been removed.

The company has clarified that the videos had to be removed based on the complaints received about the videos and its own evaluation.

According to the company, the videos were removed between April and June this year. The company had previously removed less than 9 million videos in 2019. The company estimates that more videos have been removed this year than last.

"Responsibility to society and to human beings is our top priority, and we have removed some of the video content with the conclusion that it interferes," the company said in a statement.

The company is also vigilant about child protection and preventing violence, the statement said.

YouTube has been tightening its standards and guidelines following growing criticism that its popularity as a popular social network is growing with each passing day.

 

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One of iOS 14’s big new features is picture-in-picture mode, which lets you watch a video in a small window while you’re doing other things on your iPhone. That could be handy if you, say, wanted to watch a YouTube video in Safari while chatting with your friends or checking email. But unfortunately, it seems YouTube has done something to stop videos from continuing to play when PIP mode is activated — unless you pay for YouTube Premium, that is.

See for yourself. Pull up a video on YouTube’s website in Safari on your iPhone and take it full screen. If you tap to pull up playback controls, you should see a picture-in-picture icon in the top-left corner of your screen. Tap that, and the video briefly goes into its own window before returning to its usual spot on YouTube’s site. And if you try to go back to your home screen while watching a video in full screen, you’ll see that it briefly flickers into picture-in-picture mode before disappearing.

 

iOS 14’s picture-in-picture mode doesn’t work with YouTube in Safari. ? pic.twitter.com/JwGLAmwhwb

— Jay Peters ? (@jaypeters) September 18, 2020

 

Interestingly, as observed by MacRumors, you can watch YouTube videos in picture-in-picture mode if they’re embedded on a website. And if you have YouTube Premium, picture-in-picture works as expected. But it’s not functioning properly if you’re a free user. This wasn’t the case as recently as yesterday, according to MacRumors, and I remember it working on the iOS 14 betas ahead of the software’s official release this week.

Picture-in-picture mode still works with YouTube videos in Safari if you’re using an iPad, regardless of whether you’ve got a free or Premium account.

It’s unclear if this is a bug or if YouTube removed the functionality intentionally. For its own app, YouTube limits the ability to play videos in the background to YouTube Premium subscribers. It seems plausible that YouTube wants to restrict picture-in-picture to its paying subscribers.

Google and Apple have not replied to a request for comment.

source: TheVerge

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