Hacker News with Generative AI: Digital Media

YouTube CEO:TV surpassed Mobile as primary device for YouTube viewing in the US (youtube)
This year marks YouTube’s 20th birthday. In two decades, YouTube has transformed culture through video and built a thriving creative economy.

YouTube, Streaming, Television, Digital Media, Culture

22 points by smgit 9 days ago | 11 comments

Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (androidauthority.com)
Most of us hate YouTube ads at this point. What started off as minimal intrusion into the viewer experience has gradually become longer and more intrusive, to the point where many of us prefer just paying for YouTube Premium and never seeing another ad again. For some users, that isn’t a feasible option, so they have to make their peace with watching ads to support their favorite creators and the YouTube platform.

YouTube, Advertising, User Experience, Digital Media

66 points by josephcsible 28 days ago | 88 comments

I'm Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn't Still Better Than Streaming Digital (gizmodo.com)
Holiday season 2024 solidified it: we really need to stop going along with the lie that streaming is better than physical media.

Streaming, Physical Media, Digital Media, Entertainment, Opinion

18 points by rntn 56 days ago | 14 comments

Google Search Changes Are Killing Websites in an Age of AI Spam (cnet.com)
Google's major search algorithm updates this past year have left many smaller websites with no other choice than to lay off staff. The internet is worse for it.

Google Search, Online Content, Digital Media

4 points by jsheard 60 days ago | 0 comments

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens (2018) (sciencedirect.com)
With the increasing dominance of digital reading over paper reading, gaining understanding of the effects of the medium on reading comprehension has become critical.

Reading Comprehension, Digital Media, Science, Education

9 points by jmsflknr 72 days ago | 0 comments

Breakout in Decker, Three Ways (beyondloom.com)
Decker is a flexible, malleable digital medium. At its simplest, you can build games and experiences in the vein of old Choose Your Own Adventure books by operating modal dialogs and menus to connect cards with buttons:

Interactive Fiction, Digital Media, Games

6 points by todsacerdoti 81 days ago | 0 comments

Don't Call It a Substack. (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.

Substack, Content Creation, Email Marketing, Digital Media

43 points by bookofjoe 92 days ago | 26 comments

Don't Call It a Substack (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.

Substack, Email Marketing, Content Creation, Digital Media, Ownership

15 points by marban 93 days ago | 3 comments

Textcasting: Applying the Philosophy of Podcasting to Text (2022) (textcasting.org)

Content Creation, Philosophy, Digital Media, Writing

25 points by surprisetalk 115 days ago | 0 comments

Adobe will remotely kill Adobe Elements 2025 three years after purchase (ghacks.net)
Adobe announced new Adobe Elements 2025 Family releases this week. The two products, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 and Adobe Premiere Elements 2025, come with "Ai magic" according to Adobe and several other improvements.

Software, Adobe, Photography, Digital Media

5 points by speckx 140 days ago | 0 comments

CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles (cnn.com)

CNN, Media, Paywalls, Digital Media, News

10 points by hentrep 142 days ago | 3 comments

Communicating with Interactive Articles (2020) (distill.pub)
Computing has changed how people communicate. The transmission of news, messages, and ideas is instant. Anyone’s voice can be heard. In fact, access to digital communication technologies such as the Internet is so fundamental to daily life that their disruption by government is condemned by the United Nations Human Rights Council . But while the technology to distribute our ideas has grown in leaps and bounds, the interfaces have remained largely the same.

Communication, Technology, User Interfaces, Digital Media, Human Rights

28 points by wallflower 152 days ago | 0 comments

YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (theverge.com)
It’s been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button and 18 months since Google revealed that YouTube would serve them up, too.

YouTube, Advertising, Digital Media, Online Video

67 points by MBCook 156 days ago | 64 comments

YouTube starts showing ads when you pause a video on TV (9to5google.com)
YouTube is adding a new format for ads on your TV which shows up when you pause the video, and that’s starting to roll out to users.

YouTube, Advertising, Television, Digital Media, User Experience

6 points by thunderbong 160 days ago | 0 comments

What do people do with thier pictures? (modern life, media and backing up) (ycombinator.com)

Photography, Digital Media, Data Storage

7 points by bbyford 177 days ago | 23 comments

Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible (ieee.org)

Computer Science, Digital Media

238 points by Brajeshwar 185 days ago | 60 comments

The Winamp Era [audio] (changelog.com)

Music, Nostalgia, Digital Media, Software, History

6 points by Bluestein 186 days ago | 2 comments

Effective YouTube Kids: Quality Content in Small Doses (abparenting.substack.com)