Category: Media Blitz Publicity Articles

The Ability to Add or Edit Annotations on YouTube is Going Away May 2nd

While one could argue that Annotations – especially Spotlight Annotations – were better than Cards or End Card Screens, they were often not properly or were altogether neglected. Sometimes they were overused, and the combination of a tough learning curve and the clunky interface led to the equivalent of MySpace CSS Customization Clutter we saw …

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The Trump Effect & Media Freedom

What effects will a President Trump have on Media Freedom? Donald Trump’s allegedly unexpected win over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential Election represented Middle America rejecting the policies and propaganda of the PC Marxist Democratic Party and its ilk, including the vast majority of the Mass Media. Trump’s attitude toward the Lying Press, observations …

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Milo’s Suspension & The Future of Twitter

The suspension of Milo Yiannopoulos from Twitter in 2016, followed by the same for many others on the Alt-Right – often without explanation but apparently related to tone or topical content – have led some to suggest that the future of Twitter as a leading social media platform is in question. Twitter, which is itself …

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YouTube to Become One Big, PC, Censored “Safe Space”?

Google-owned YouTube has some new policies regarding monetization of video containing content involving subjects or events that are controversial or sensitive… This could be construed (and applied?) many ways, and it sure sounds like it is describing most things that are really worth talking about; That is, anything “newsworthy”… If Google retains control to determine …

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A “Dislike” Button For Your TV – Where To Complain About Television Content

A popular request on platforms like FaceBook has been a “dislike” button to show disapproval or negative reaction to content. The Internet does allow virtually unlimited avenues of content discovery, and the user experience is largely user-directed. Television, in contrast, is heavily controlled and programmed, with the viewer choosing between channels. Where is the call …

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FAKE YouTube’s RESTRICTIVE Mode and COLLUSION with Network TV to End REAL YOUTUBE

Apparently, YouTube sees its decentralized video content model as such a severe threat to Google’s newer Network TV Business/Other interests that it is sabotaging the traditional usability of the YouTube platform. We’ll have more on this soon. To get up to speed, we encourage you to watch this video from Dave at Computing Forever…

The Best Ways to Deal With Negative Comments and Feedback

When an article you wrote or a video you made gets negative comments, your first reaction may be emotional, and that stems from the fact that you put significant thought and energy into making that content available. However, when you break it down rationally it becomes clear that there are different types of negative comments …

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Video Blogging Is Essential for the Young and a Differentiator for the Old

Vlogging, or Video Blogging, is essential for engaging with younger demographics that have grown up or come of age with online video and social media. Video Blogging is also a great differentiator to help you stand out among an older target market by educating and informing your customers about what they want and need to …

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Quality & Purpose Over Quantity, Published on a Consistent Basis

When it comes to devising a content strategy for your business, you need to consider the contrasts between the 24-hour constant stream of mostly irrelevant content and the specific, online destinations sought out by internet searchers demonstrating “lean-in” behavior. You want to create quality content that is relevant to your target audience. Yes, you want …

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Explaining YouTube’s Cash-Grab Changes in Featuring Long-Form Content

Many changes have been occurring with YouTube over the past year, and we will cover these more in-depth shortly. However, many long-time successful channels have recently reported drops in their advertisement income, views, and subscribes. This phenomenon appears to mostly affect YouTubers who use YouTube as their primary platform to deliver their material, as opposed …

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MEDIA TREND: Government-Backed Russian Fake News Conspiracy Theory Ignores Giant Donkey in Room

As the Lying Press and The Mainstream Media continue to assert a “Russian Conspiracy” affected the outcome of the US Presidential Election and attempt to tar their more successful small online competitors as “Fake News” when their stories are not twisted to fit into the PC Narrative, it is hard for the rest of us …

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Zero Hedge Analysis of Trump Bypassing the Mainstream Media & Their Fake News Crusade

Zero Hedge recently published an article analyzing Donald Trump’s use of social media platforms including YouTube and Twitter to bypass The Establishment Press to communicate with The American People. The article goes on to further analyze why The Establishment Media have launched a crusade against online competitors by labeling them as “fake news”. Zero Hedge …

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President-Elect Trump Bypasses The Press & Reaches Americans on YouTube Channel

Following a campaign in which the “Mainstream Media” sabotaged and demonized the Trump campaign in the most outlandish ways, President-Elect Trump is cutting out The Press and taking his messages directly to the American people via his YouTube Channel. This echoes his use of Twitter during his campaign. He should continue to cut them out …

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How Did Video Games in the 1980s Prepare Us for The Internet & Online Interactive Multimedia, Including Social Media?

At Media Blitz, we have an interest in video games that goes back to the 1980s, the Atari 2600, & the Nintendo Entertainment System. As kids, many of us found these video game systems & their interactive media products to be much more interesting than the television shows and other media offered on television and …

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Reject and Replace Hollywood with Decentralized Entertainment Media

As discussed in a previous Media Blitz post (HERE) and by ReelSEO (HERE), YouTube reaches more 18 to 49 year olds than the top 10 Prime Time TV shows. Since its launch in 2005, we’ve said YouTube was the game-changer that made TV obsolete. Television, despite the variety of cable companies – many owned by …

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Poor Movie Rental Selection Since the Demise of Blockbuster

As Netflix and streaming movies online came to be increasingly popular, the popularity of actually going to a movie rental store waned.  Additionally, more people were consuming more and different media content online, but people still watch movies at home. For about 3 decades, movie rental stores increased the power of the masses to consume …

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Decentralization of Media – What It Means, and Is It Still True?

There used to be three major television networks, with local affiliates. Local and regional newspapers, along with their TV and Radio counterparts and the national news programs, dominated the flow of information on current events. The schools, encyclopedias, and major book publishing companies controlled the flow of other information. Entertainment media in the United States …

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FaceBook Routinely Suppressed “Conservative” News Items

http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006 FaceBook has suppressed “conservative” news items – Why are we not surprised?!? It’s par for the course, but FaceBook is also about promoting the lowest common denominator. Not only does FaceBook censor and punish posts that are not “PC”, and not only does it encourage its users to report non-“PC” postings for this censorship …

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“Pop” Culture Versus Popular Culture

It is important for people in today’s society to understand and be able to identify the differences between manufactured “Pop Culture” and genuine Popular Culture that comes from the people. Since the dawn of modern mass media technology, the people in control of the media content have sought to shape the behavior, beliefs, and culture …

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