Mitch Jones, a Twitch streamer known for playing World of Warcraft on the platform, revealed that he was denied partnership despite having over 15k subscribers. Jones also holds the 35th position for the most subscribed channel on the platform, raising questions about why Twitch hasn’t approved his Twitch partnership. Mitch Jones’ history with Twitch Mitch…
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the…
YouTube Monetization: Create and upload engaging content on YouTube. Once you meet the eligibility criteria, apply for the YouTube Partner Program. This allows you to earn money through ads, channel memberships, and Super Chat during live streams. CLICK HERE TO GET START Affiliate Marketing on Facebook: Leverage your Facebook presence to promote products or services…
Following last week’s layoffs across hardware, Assistant, engineering, and ads, YouTube is cutting around 100 roles as part of a restructuring to Creator management and operations. According to Tubefilter, YouTube is localizing its Creator management teams on a per-country basis, while centralizing other teams so that there’s one focused on music and another responsible for…
Buffer changed a lot in the last year. In total, we released 26 fantastic features. We worked on 100s of small improvements and bug fixes. And wrote over 10,000 lines of code. To round up the year, we thought we’d run through the 11 most popular launches we released in 2023. New features AI Assistant…
Behind the Scenes with Prompts Similar to others looking to leverage GAI, we were learning how to author large language model (LLM) prompts and quickly discovered that prompt workflows are quite involved, each requiring a few fundamental building blocks. Each new iteration of a prompt required a few hours of inference to generate sample responses,…
To help B2B marketers continue to meet this moment and deliver results, we are introducing new products and services so that they can: Prioritize the most high-value work with the help of AI-generated Copy Suggestions, which uses generative AI to create text and headlines for ad creative** Showcase how paid advertising can drive business impact…
X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has been targeted with a series of privacy complaints after it helped itself to the data of users in the European Union for training AI models without asking people’s consent. Late last month an eagle-eyed social media user spotted a setting indicating that X had quietly…
Years ago, Twitter tried but eventually walked away from building TV apps after getting a lukewarm reception. Now, as it looks to revive its advertising business, its new incarnation X is hoping for a rerun. The company announced a new TV app available “on several app stores” as part of a wider effort to court…
YouTube has introduced a new moderation tool for creators that allows them to pause comments, preventing any new comments from being added to videos while preserving those that have already been posted. In a blog post published on Thursday, YouTube said the feature enables creators to “take a break from managing comments if they become…
Tail utilization is a significant system issue and a major factor in overload-related failures and low compute utilization. The tail utilization optimizations at Meta have had a profound impact on model serving capacity footprint and reliability. Failure rates, which are mostly timeout errors, were reduced by two-thirds; the compute footprint delivered 35% more work for…
In a recent blog post, industry leader Josh Bersin writes that CEOs and CFOs are operating in an outdated model, where leaders are hiring during periods of growth and laying employees off when things slow down. This model, he notes, isn’t sustainable. In a world where skills gaps and labor shortages are increasing, employees are…
Whether you’re a professional expert, an enthusiast, or just a living, breathing human being, chances are that your life, and those of your loved ones, have been affected by advancements in medical technology, or the lack thereof. Just in my personal life, there are numerous examples of both — the X-rays my extreme sports-loving brother…
In a world oversaturated by bland, same-y superhero films, only one movie can rise above and deliver the most gonzo hero we’ve seen in years. That film is The Toxic Avenger, and it’s here to give all your favorite MCU and DC denizens a radioactive kick to the nuts. The Toxic Avenger reimagines independent film…