Is it your dream to reach YouTube stardom? If it is, German researchers have some advice for you: give it up. Why do the Germans want to crush your dreams? They discovered the harsh reality that many of your top YouTube stars fail to mention. With numerous YouTube stars living …
Outdated Law Poses Trouble for Live Stream Users in Germany
Broadcasting live streams of video games and life’s adventures are more popular than ever as services like Twitch, YouTube and Facebook Live make broadcasting as easy as pressing a button. For powers users in Germany though, who do more than just the sporadic stream, the Landesmedienanstalt broadcasting authority is stepping in to …
Sources: Ubergizmo
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Google’s Latest YouTube Deal Will Be Music to German Ears
Since 2009, many popular music videos on YouTube were out of reach to German users due to a licensing feud between Google and GEMA (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte), a leading music rights organization in the country. The dispute dragged out for over seven years, but the two companies have finally …
Sources: YouTube, VentureBeat
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What do you get when you combine some aspiring YouTube stars, a really nice slow motion camera, parents with a large yard and an eight-foot glitter-filled balloon? A slow-mo glitter explosion! A group of friends in Hamburg launched their own YouTube channel, Slow Motion Junkies, only a few weeks ago …
Sources: Slow Motion Junkies, Daily Mail
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The German language receives its fair share of ridicule for some of its crazy words and phrases, and while it may have a leg up in the longest words competition, the English language has its own set of oddities, as seen in this sentence alone (‘a leg up’). Flula, a …
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Over the last week I have watched the “How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages” YouTube video by the Copy Cat Channel cropping up on news sites small and big. The entire concept of the video is to show the German language as being harsh compared to others such as …
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If you’re a YouTube user in Germany, the notice stating “This video is not available in Germany because it possibly contains music for which GEMA hasn’t approved the rights” is probably something you’ve seen more times than you’ve cared to. New data released by OpenDataCity, an app created by a group …
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It has been almost a year since YouTube announced their plans for providing original content channels on the popular video site, and with the top 25 channels already ranking in an impressive million plus views every week, the company is ready to expand the concept to Europe. By getting popular …
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