Category: YouTube

• April 3, 2018

  How to Add Moderators on Youtube – and How to Choose Your Team!

  This is part one of a two part series on YouTube Live Stream Moderation. As a moderator for several larger YouTubers, I wanted to share my thoughts and experience with the greater community. Watch the video below, and the show notes are listed for you as well.
• March 13, 2018

  YouTube SuperChat Explained – How to SuperChat on a Live Stream

  In my role as a moderator on many larger YouTuber’s live streams, one question gets constantly asked, “What Is SuperChat?” So much so, I made myself a “What Is SuperChat?” chat message with a link to the YouTube Helps page concerning SuperChat. I post it at least once per stream it seems 😉 In the…
• March 11, 2018

  YouTubers Recommend Their Favourite Piece of Kit – Collaboration

  Recently, I teamed up with a number of YouTubers put together by Check It Media, where we recommended our favourite piece of kit for making YouTube videos. You can check out the video below. The YouTubers involved and their channel links are: Select Media: https://goo.gl/r3W41Q Rodney B Hunt: https://goo.gl/5Eh7si Jason Whaling: https://goo.gl/W7s7ME D.O.P https://goo.gl/UvG9m3 Doug…
• February 27, 2018

  YouTube Make Some Cool Updates to their Live Streaming

  Just today, YouTube have announced that they are rolling out some updates related to live streaming on the platform. These were outlined in a recent YouTube Creator Blog post here. I briefly talk about the updates mentioned in this short live stream video. In summary: live stream replays will now show a live chat replay…
• February 12, 2018

  YouTube Has New Rules for Punishing Big YouTubers Who Bring Harm to the Platform

  On February 9, YouTube announced new rules and punishments for larger YouTubers that bring the platform into disrepute. In their most recent YouTube Creator Blog post, YouTube listed a number of measures it was taking to “prevent harm” to the broader YouTube community, in the wake of the recent Logan Paul contreversy. In the video…
• January 19, 2018

  YouTube Partner Program Changes 2018

  Over the last several days, YouTube, and social media in general has gone into meltdown regarding YouTube’s announcement that they are updating the eligibility requirements to enter the YouTube Partner Program. For those not in the know, the YouTube Partner Program is what a channel needs to become a member of to be able to monetise their…
• December 6, 2017

  YouTube Crack Down on Platform Abuse

  Yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki posted 2 articles regarding what action YouTube will be taking in regards to various abuses of the YouTube platform. We’re talking about inappropriate content and behaviour in regards to extremist content, content taking advantage of children, etc. In the video below, I look at the article posted on the YouTube…