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Google is now popping a message that leads to an open letter to Australians drafted by Melanie Silva, Managing Director, on behalf of Google Australia. According to the letter, this would provide a biased gain to media companies over other website owners and small businesses. It proposes that it may no longer be able to offer free services in the nation. Silva complained that the proposed laws would undesirably shake Google’s users. She also warned Australians that their ‘search data may be at risk’ while hurting certain services under the new laws. The free search and YouTube services provide large news publishers confidential info that would provide them an advantage in terms of search rankings on YouTube, meaning content creators would get fewer views and thus make less money. The law also needs platforms to offer news companies nearly a month’s notice of any fluctuations to its algorithms which may affect traffic to news sites. The Australian Consumer and Competition Commissio...

YouTube has recently announced changes to its monetization program in order to regain the advertiser’s trust. The company is tightening the rules around its partner program as well as raising the requirements that a creator will have to meet for monetizing videos. New channels will now need to have 1,000 subscribers as well as 4,000 hours of viewing time within the past 12 months in order to qualify for ads, also known as the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). YouTube will be enforcing the new eligibility policy for all existing channels as of February 20th. Earlier, channels needed only 10,000 views in order to be eligible for the program. Although this change will make it difficult for new, smaller channels to reach monetization, YouTube says it is an important way of buying itself more time to see who is following the company’s guidelines & disqualify “bad actors.” This new, stricter policy basically came after Logan Paul, one of YouTube’s star creators & influencer...