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Google-owned YouTube is expanding the concept of non-skippable advertisements on its platform for the creators to monetise their content and earn more revenue—This basically means you will not be seeing the "skip ad" button more often. YouTube explained that creators who already monetise their content on YouTube will be soon able to turn on non-skippable ads for all of their videos. And eligible creators will get a notification in their dashboard, company officials said in a video uploaded on YouTube"s Creator Insider channel. Even as Google is expanding the advertisements on its video sharing platform, the company is also offering a YouTube Premium (popularly known as YouTube Red) which is a subscription-based service without ads, and offers more flexible options with downloads and Original content—YouTube Premium which also bundles YouTube Music is available in select markets including the US, Australia, Africa and Europe. The content-sharing platform is also adding a...

YouTube could about to take a big step toward solving a long time setbacks for creators: It’s about to roll out a tool that will identify videos that are stolen and re-posted by someone else — and let the original creator pull the ripoffs down. After almost a year in beta-testing, YouTube’s new Copyright Match tool is scheduled to launch next week for creators with more than 100,000 subscribers. With the new system, after a user uploads a video — and YouTube verifies it as the first iteration of the video — YouTube will scan other videos uploaded to the service to see if any of them are the same (or very similar). “We know how frustrating it is when your content is uploaded to other channels without your permission and how time consuming it can be to manually search for these re-uploads,” Fabio Magagna, who oversees the Copyright Match tool as product manager at YouTube. “We currently provide a number of ways for copyright owners to prote...

After dealing with demonetisation problems for close to two years. YouTube creators will finally get paid for their content. At its annual VidCon gathering in Anaheim, California, the site announced an alternative payment method for channel memberships and a merchandising feature. Channel Memberships is a rebrand of Subscriptions, a feature that had been tested by select creators for a while. Channels with over 100,000 subscribers will get access to Memberships for $4.99 per month. Creators will have a unique badges for their profiles, custom emoji, members-only posts, exclusive livestreams and videos, and other perks. While channels with fewer than 100,000 subscribers will be disappointed to miss this opportunity, YouTube says it hopes to make more Memberships available to more people in the coming months. Merchandise is exactly what it sounds like—merchandise that creators can customise and feature on a digital "shelf" on their YouTube channel. The company partnered with T...