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  Video streaming giant YouTube is working on a new way to ensure users see ads and don’t skip them. This includes hiding the ‘Skip’ button option. The free viewing experience that users have been benefiting from, thanks to the Skip button, could soon be disguised from user view. But if you’ve really got a problem with ads, the app is giving you the chance to pay extra and subscribe to Premium. Google says ad monetization is one of the chief ways it makes money and helps creators get their rightful share. Hence, features like ad blockers have already made it hard for websites on the search engine to benefit and now the skip button is also hindering its monetization potential. We can see this as a smart tactic to push marketing of its premium tier. Remember, so many viewers are complaining about how ad segments keep getting longer by the day. And if you can’t skip them, it just adds to a not-so-pleasurable experience. The app has been very vocal about the ongoing debate against free...

  MrBeast is a man who needs no introduction as he’s considered the world’s most successful and popular YouTuber today. Generating millions from his content on the popular powerhouse online video app, the star spends huge sums of money on his posts to ensure fans stay engaged until the end. And we agree that hard work goes a long way and his success is well deserved. Just recently, we saw the star whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson,  post his first video on the X app  and that managed to generate  a great response of $263K . This featured close to 150 million views in just seven days and that’s a massive achievement. The same content was posted on YouTube last year in September. The first content made more than $250k, he added, celebrating the news but wait, he was not too happy. He marked the success in a bittersweet way by adding how it was similar to the likes of being a facade. Meanwhile, some advertisers looked at the success as one that they had to take advanta...

  YouTube has recently spoken about how it's very keen on allowing its creators to earn more funds on the app through its popular short-form video feature called Shorts. In addition to the company’s urge to launch a brand new revenue program for ads on Shorts, it’s also decided to begin beta testing for its creator donation program. Here, fans get the chance to buy comments highlighted on the app, in-stream. YouTube recently went public with the next phase of this particular expansion and even gave examples related to showing it will work in Shorts too. As can be seen via a series of screenshots put out by the   Creator Insider on its video , viewers get a glimpse of their purchases on Super Thanks. These are messages put up by other creators that have the featured already enabled. You can find it now on demand in particular markets belonging to creators that are already a part of YouTube’s Partnership initiative. But if you wish to qualify for this, you need to have at least ...

 Popular video search engine YouTube is busy testing a set of analytics options for its Creator Studio. The company says its goal is to help provide users with more insights that could assist them in better creating their content strategy. The platform even previewed some of the options at hand that highlight how users engage, search, and carry out different activities on the app. It also showed how they were currently testing various topics seen across the platform. All in all, these new functionalities are going to be incorporated into the app’s Search Insights which was heard of last year. Meanwhile, the feature’s first phase was launched in April of this year. This was the first time that creators got a better idea of what people are loving on their channels and across others’ channels. The firm adds how the new launch could really be so helpful in terms of planning. But to see the app take more interest in giving that approach some more depth is truly wonderful. This way, so m...