The YouTube Controversy: Who Benefits?

1. Google lost a comparatively small amount from the boycott
2. The advertisers did it to get cheaper ads
3. Progressives want control over your content
4. Content creators got fucked

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Sources

• Bloomberg continues the narrative https://archive.is/7wyRc
• Google Tax http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/taxpayer-s-31m-debt-to-google-qvgqpxm96
• Not google's fault http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/a-loophole-osborne-failed-to-close-kftrdf299
• Daily Mail attacks YouTuber https://archive.is/NMsgu
• Slingshot channel https://twitter.com/reallyrando/status/848972854150483968
• Keem https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/846997622179184640
• Ethan Klein https://archive.is/jdinI
• Wall Street Journal Statement https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/statement-wall-street-journal/
• WSJ and Vice popularity...or lack thereof https://archive.is/Gv29S
• https://storage.googleapis.com/think/docs/its-lit.pdf
• TV Decline
• 2008 https://archive.is/Y0Pj8
• 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/11146439/How-young-viewers-are-abandoning-television.html
• 2014 https://archive.is/P9yB7
• 2015 http://uk.businessinsider.com/tv-ratings-decline-2015-9
• 2015 https://www.ft.com/content/e46dc7a4-b843-11e4-86bb-00144feab7de
• 2016 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/12067340/Traditional-TV-viewing-is-over-YouTube-habit-is-permanent-warn-researchers.html
• 2017 http://www.westmonster.com/oldstream-media-literally-dying-out/
• 21% of users get news from YouTube(189,000,000) https://twitter.com/pewjournalism/status/847264113227182080
• German broadcasting licenses http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/rundfunklizenz-fuer-youtuber-14945278.html
• 36% of people think ads are endorsement https://archive.is/c2E8E
• Google say this is a small problem https://archive.is/QlXHs
• Vidme's response https://medium.com/vidme/creators-first-not-advertisers-6d3abd1d0af9
• Video https://vid.me/9kcR
• Who benefits?
• Omnicom will sort through ads https://archive.is/sMRch
• Feinburg's Patent http://archive.is/ZQvM5#selection-2017.0-2037.164
• The patent https://www.google.com/patents/US9521164
• Media Matters https://mediamatters.org/about
• Leaks http://thefreethoughtproject.com/leaked-docs-expose-media-matter/
• http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/media-matters-donor-pitch.pdf