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Selective Enforcement and Demonetization: The Direction YouTube is Headed
For a few years now (or, should I say a decade?), advertisers have been gradually transitioning to the Internet to advertise and work with influencers, especially on the world-renowned video hosting platform YouTube. Since 2007, content creators have been able to make a living on YouTube by monetizing their videos, or allowing ads to play before or midway through their videos. A percentage of that ad revenue goes to both YouTube and the content creator; therefore, the more clicks the video gets, the more ad revenue is produced for YouTube and its creators.
Amazon, Apple, Facebook,And Google: Who WIll Win?
As we near another turn of the decade, various brand names (e.g. Myspace, Blackberry, etc.) have been weeded out of the game, and it has finally become clear who the top players are in the future’s media landscape: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Although these four firms have differing roots and humble beginnings, their paths are starting to cross as they race to create the next big thing, and to ultimately run the media landscape of the future. In this essay, the technologies and contested boundaries between Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will be discussed, as well as the potential outcomes that could determine the winner in the race to the top.
An Analysis of Cross-Cultural Non-Verbal Codes
There are eight different kinds of nonverbal codes, but in this journal I will go over three of them that I find to be the most extensive and universal; those being facial expressions, proxemics, and eye contact.
INTERSECTIONS AND INEQUALITIES: A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE
Despite the fact that there are billions of people in this world, there are no two people who share the same exact experiences. Surely, when individuals fall within the same demographics, their differences in experience become fewer and fewer. Nevertheless, even if individuals share the same experiences, that does not mean they share the same sensations, reactions, or outcomes. One simple example is that two individuals could ride the same roller coaster at the same time, but while the first individual loved the ride, the second individual hated it.