YouTube
Cuttings #10: YouTube is coming for your news
YouTube wants your news videos — and your podcasts (but ad-free). Plus more evidence that we need to get serious about video… again.
adblocking
iOS 9 - adbockers selling fast
Uh-oh [http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/17/ios-9s-main-attraction-adblocking/]: > Less than 24 hours after the release of iOS 9, it’s interesting to see that adblockers are shooting to the top of the charts in the App Store worldwide. Content blockers, which allow users to block advertising, trackers and
advertising
Was Gigaom's revenue model really broken?
Should we be taking a harder look at the potential ad revenue of the (defunct) Gigaom [http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2015/03/15/what-are-the-lessons-to-be-learned-from-the-fall-of-gigaom-what-does-it-tell-us-if-a-passionate-niche-audience-of-6-5m-cant-earn-people-a-web-living/] ? Rick Waghorn thinks so: > Maybe, just maybe, the fall of the Gigaom empire is the first tremor of a bigger earthquake; evidence that something is
adblocking
Buying your way out of ad blocking
Robert Cookson, for the Financial Times, reports that companies are paying their way out of ad-blocking [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/80a8ce54-a61d-11e4-9bd3-00144feab7de.html]: > Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Taboola have quietly paid the German start-up behind Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising,
adverts
The Embers of One Man's Day
What do we have here? A video promoting a piece of software called Ember [http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/ember-user-stories-adam-tinworth], starring me (and completely scene-stolen by my daughter): This all came about at the last TEDxBrighton. Thibault [http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/author:thibault] – whom I’d first met when he was