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New content is not the only answer for creators

Samuel Griffin

4 May 2023

Twitch

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Kai Cenat

As platforms become inundated with new content, competition for attention is constantly intensifying. Many creators must keep working harder (streaming more) to maintain their current metrics. The requirement...

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Why PewDiePie Contemplated Deleting His YouTube Channel

Tim Mulligan

9 Dec 2016

Online video

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PewDiePie who runs the most subscribed YouTube channel which has just surpassed 50 million subscribers declared that he is going to close down his record-breaking channel today. PewDiePie, aka Swedish...

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Why is YouTube Red Struggling To Add Subscribers?

Tim Mulligan

3 Nov 2016

Online video

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SVOD

Yesterday’s story in the Verge about YouTube Red’s low numbers have not come as a surprise. Acquiring only 1.5 million subscribers in its first year helps to put the relative performance of service...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: YouTube Subscribers

Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2016

Chart Of The Week

Facebook

Facebook video

Video is eating the world and as it does so YouTube’s role is evolving in a subtle but crucial way. YouTube used to be the undisputed home of short form video but that role is now challenged by Facebook...

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