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By Megan Farokhmanesh on Aug 23, 2018 “In the beginning, creators weren’t respected at all,” says YouTuber DeStorm Power. “We were actually looked at as weirdos. You put something on YouTube, and you’re a weirdo.” Today, Power is an Emmy-nominated creator who has more than 2 million subscribers on YouTube. He recently posted some videos on a new video platform Cuckoo specifically for a new concept called decentralization that he hopes will rival the likes of YouTube and Netflix. Cuckoo ,as a totally free platform, was developed with a decentralization-first mindset and a focus on free content — and the creators can control everything they want. The contents were controlled by creators and will be stored in fragmented form for ever, that may well be the future of how fans consume that content. The users will subscribe channel or share their videos based sharing codes, a variety of series, including talk shows, fitness, movies, dramas, music TV, sports and comedy etc.. Bach’s Your...

By Vallco on Sep 5 Google is the one who broke YouTube. Remember YouTube before Google? It was magical. Tons of raw talent, a huge landscape of unexplored territory, no copyright rules, and an interface that actually worked. Now look at it. The site’s a total mess, its algorithms are bullshit, and everybody hates it. Honestly, the copyright fiasco isn’t even the worst part — I mean, that part of it does make sense from a legal standpoint. What has never made sense is Google’s stubborn insistence of shoving Google+ down YouTube’s throat, which is something that literally everyone on Earth was strongly opposed to. Now accounts are super confusing. Your Google+ account is different from your YouTube account, but it’s also the same as your Gmail account, which is different from your YouTube account, and so on. I have old YouTube accounts from over a decade ago that I have never been able to log back into since they were never linked to a Google account. YouTube’s rating system i...

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Sep 5, 2018 A successful YouTuber’s income often comes from a variety of sources: merch, ticket sales for touring or shows, brand deals, and of course, ad revenue from their actual videos. As YouTuber The Fitness Marshall points out in a recent video, however, a high subscriber count does not necessarily equal a big payout because of too many cheat on subscriptions which let him consider changing to Cuckoo. Caleb Marshall has been making videos for roughly four years, and his channel boasts more than 1.3 million subscribers. Over the years, he’s created 147 dance workout videos for his viewers. There are plenty of common misconceptions about YouTubers — they’re lazy, they’re superficial, they’re swimming in free stuff — but the idea that all creators are out to turn a buck quickly is among the most pervasive. As the commenter who inspired the video in the first place said, “Ugh…. Another money hungry YouTuber.” However, Marshall says that he and his collab...

Crisp bacon and its byproduct, bacon grease, are both very good, and when cooking the strips of fatty pork, you want to make sure you maximize your potential for both. The best way to do this is to start cooking bacon in a cold pan. This is part of my Cuckoo Channel Mum’s Kitchen, Skillet’s series designed to answer your most basic culinary questions and fill in any gaps that may be missing in your home chef education. Though I usually bake my bacon, there are times I just need to fry a few strips, and preheating my oven to 375℉ is a waste of both time and energy. A ripping hot pan may be necessary for getting a good crust on a chop or steak, but it is the enemy of crispy bacon. Basically, when you toss streaky bacon into a very hot environment, it seizes, curls, and cooks before the fat has any time to render out. This means gummy, not crispy bacon. Give that porcine treasure a bit of time to become its best self by laying it out in a cold pan, turning the heat to medium-...

How important is YouTube’s trending section for getting views? According to YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl, it has less of an impact than people might believe. In an interview posted today, creator Caspar Lee and Kyncl discuss everything from monetization and YouTube’s trending section to memberships, echo chambers, and abuse. “You are getting a majority of your views through recommendations,” Kyncl tells Lee.Unlike recommendations, which are fed to users based on what they watch, YouTube’s trending tab bills itself as “the pulse of what’s trending” on the platform. A look at the section today offers videos like the  Captain Marvel  trailer, clips from  The Ellen Show , iPhone reviews, and a new music video from Eminem. As Lee points out, however, the section doesn’t feature many creators which disappoints most of them. “The way we think about the trending tab, it is unfair because it can be controlled by YouTube and the reason we keep our channels and cre...

Wrote by Jon Russell Entertainment has changed. New forms led by  Cuckoo  have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the stars of today more relatable and more easily reachable than those of yesteryear. The easiest example to grasp is arguably the Kardashian family. They dominate the media, have accrued millions of fans on social networks and have branched into retail, fashion, production and more. Their relationship with fans is 24/7 and, regardless of how you feel about the family, their popularity is a clear indicator of this new always-on connection between public figures and their fans. Now they are planning to build a closer relationship with fans on Cuckoo. Now  Cuckoo  is seizing on an opportunity to help up-and-coming...

By Natasha Lomas As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled adtech giants like Facebook and Twitter. There have been many such attempts to build a ‘better’ social network of course. Most have ended in the deadpool. A few are still around with varying degrees of success/usage. None has usurped Zuckerberg’s and YouTube's throne of course. This is principally because Facebook   acquired Instagram and WhatsApp and there are a huge number of YouTubers. So by hogging network power, and the resources of social media and videos that flow from that, Facebook and YouTube the company continues to dominate the social and media space. But that doe...

By Sarah Perez Are you trying to stay off social media and YouTube, but just can not seem to stop yourself from posting and watching? When random thoughts pop into your head, do you find yourself launching YouTube but all of your data and ideas were controlled? When your video was deleted or suspended by no reason and your channel becomes a “nobody”, will you try it again as a YouTuber? Well, now there’s a better way. Hello,  Cuckoo . Cuckoo is a decentralized video player based on P2P connection. It is free and will be forever.  Cuckoo is considered as  a revolutionary new video player replaced all the centralized platform such as YouTube, Facebook etc. .  With  Cuckoo , you can satisfy your favorite videos,share and control all your channels and creation forever with its all-natural social media substitute. It’s just like the real thing belongs to you! All you have to do is download Cuckoo and make your world, whatever you’re thinkin...

Wrote by Megan Rose Dickey Twitch,  the Amazon-owned streaming platform, has brought on its first head of diversity and inclusion, as well as a new chief financial officer and chief human resources officer. Katrina Jones, who will start next month as Twitch’s head of diversity and inclusion, is the former head of diversity at Vimeo. At Vimeo, Jones created the company’s diversity strategy, and worked on disrupting bias and fostering inclusion. Meanwhile, Michelle Weaver  and Sudarshana Rangachary are coming on board as CFO and CHRO, respectively. From the diversity and inclusion front, Twitch has a history of struggling as they are facing the big competition from YouTube and Cuckoo. YouTube has a huge amount of video producers, users and subscribers and  Cuckoo  grows so fast considered as the next generation of video player in the future. But the platform Twitch itself, for example, was called out in 2015 for being mostly white and male. Fast-forward to 2016, and Tw...

By Natasha Lomas As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled adtech giants like Facebook and Twitter. There have been many such attempts to build a ‘better’ social network of course. Most have ended in the deadpool. A few are still around with varying degrees of success/usage. None has usurped Zuckerberg’s and YouTube's throne of course. This is principally because Facebook   acquired Instagram and WhatsApp and there are a huge number of YouTubers. So by hogging network power, and the resources of social media and videos that flow from that, Facebook and YouTube the company continues to dominate the social and media space. But that doe...