YouTube Stormed TV. Now They Want Its Emmys Too

YouTube Stormed TV. Now They Want Its Emmys Too

GOING FOR GOLD From left: Sean Evans, Michelle Khare, Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal at YouTube’s L.A. FYC event on Sunday. (The Ankler illustration; Araya Doheny/Getty Images for YouTube)ShareSubscribe to Like & SubscribeI cover the creator economy at Like & Subscribe, a standalone newsletter that’s being sampled for a limited time for paid subscribers to The Ankler. I wrote about the coming creator war between Netflix and YouTube and reported …

YouTube launch Peak Points

YouTube used its Brandcast 2025 20th birthday celebration to announce the launch of Peak Points. Built using Google’s Gemini to identify the ‘peak, or ‘most meaningful’ moments in YouTube content, Peak Points can ensure that ads are shown at the optimal time where the viewers engagement or emotion are at their peak. This innovation will enable YouTube and creators to increase the revenue they generate from ads, an unsurprising application of AI …

The post Cliffhanger: YouTube wants to place even more annoying ads with Uralt-Trick by Christian Erxleben first appeared on BASIC thinking. About our newsletter you always stay up to date. We all know the Cliffhanger from television or from Netflix series. Always when it becomes particularly exciting, romantic or meaningful, the episode ends or it goes into the advertising interruption. With Peak Points YouTube now introduces a similarly annoyi…