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Facebook / Instagram lower video quality in EU!
Following YouTube and Netflix’s decisoin to lower video quality to help European networks deal with demand, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facebook and Instagram will also temporarily reduce video bitrates in Europe. Therefore helping to handle “bandwidth constraints” and keep people in touch.
The sheer audience sizes of Facebook and Instagram could cause additional strain of users are more active than usual. Facebook had 288M daily users in Europe as of Summer 2019. With many users turning to video chat to keep in touch with people they’d otherwise meet in person.
With the news of reducing video bitrates it might help people work from home and otherwise get the internet services they expect.
“To help alleviate any potential network congestion, we will temporarily reduce bit rates for videos on Facebook and Instagram in Europe. We are committed to working with our partners to manage any bandwidth constraints during this period of heavy demand, while also ensuring people are able to remain connected using Facebook apps and services during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
(Engadget)
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YouTube cuts videos to lower quality during Coronavirus
YouTube are following in the footsteps of Netflix and will begin capping its data flow during the coronavirus pandemic. YouTube will being limiting all European streams to standard definition to manage the load on it’s network.
This is following advice from the EU Internal Market Commisson. Which was that everyone should limit their streams to standard definition. As it will minimie the network congestion as millions of people will be going online to kill time in isolation.
Thierry Breton from the commission spoke to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki to ensure the measures are put in place.
‘We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default.’
‘People are coming to YouTube to find authoritative news, learning content and make connections during these uncertain times,’ a spokeswoman for the video platform said.
‘While we have seen only a few usage peaks, we have measures in place to automatically adjust our system to use less network capacity.
‘We are in ongoing conversations with the regulators (including Ofcom), governments and network operators all over Europe, and are making a commitment to temporarily default all traffic in the UK and the EU to standard definition.
‘We will continue our work to minimise stress on the system, while also delivering a good user experience.’ YouTube Spokesperson
The video streaming service said that there has little change in the peaks for usage. Furthermore seeing changes mostly in usage patterns, with usage expanding across longer hours.
The switch to standard definition should free up traffic on European networks considerably. While Netflix said that they would see a 25% reduction of it’s traffic on Europe’s networks.
Mobile Networks
While mobile networks including O2, EE, Vodafone and Three all began to struggle. As people are starting to work from home. With many customers complaining online that they were unable to make calls. With some claiming business had already began to slow down dramatically.
‘Today the industry experienced an issue that meant some calls between different networks were unable to connect. Specifically, O2, Vodafone and Three were unable to connect to EE and EE customers were unable to connect to O2, Vodafone and Three.
‘At a time when the country needs connectivity most, it is important we work together rather than pointing fingers before facts have been determined.
‘As this was a problem for a multiple networks, there is a National Emergency Alert for Telecommunications and Ofcom call at 2:30pm this afternoon to determine the route of the issue to ensure this doesn’t happen again.’ O2 spokesperson told Metro
Furthermore YouTube also confirmed it was introducing a new area on its homepage. Which is dedicated to news about Covid-19 from trustworthy sources.
(Metro)
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Zoom Q2n-4K
We recently had James Haskell on the show and he told us about an amazing piece of kit! The Zoom Q2n-4k! It combines unrivaled audio with crisp 4K imaging making for an amazing little device! Revolutionising rehearsals, performances and live streams!
You can capture a full band, or a solo act or anything you want with five field of view settings. Plus the 150 degree lens and colour LCD will allow you to easily frame the perfect shot! Furthermore it’s in 4K Ultra HD resolution!
The Mundane Millionaire
You could soon become a mundane millionaire! What’s a mundane millionaire I hear you ask? I know it seems crazy. But hear us out.
So, according to new research you could earn at least £2.2million just by filming every day activities and uploading them to YouTube.
So far 6.5Million people have watched a video on how to make a cup of tea. Even brushing your teeth could make you almost £3,500!
It has been said that YouTube pays users an average of £3.18 per 1,000 views.
While if you break that down that’s 0.0032p per view for ads shown before videos. With a new £13 per 1,000 view ad rate is taken into account, channels could earn up to £3.7M for filming their day.
Upload mundane activities such as washing your face, eating your breakfast or feeding your pet. Could earn you up to £2,247,842 in ad revenue.
Furthermore tasks such as using the toilet and sending en email have racked up 11,746,923 views combined.
YouTube pays users £3.18 for every 1,000 views but adverts have to be watched in full.
While an average of 59% of users skip the ads. Making the earnings drop to £921,615 per day. Which is 30x the average annual UK salary. (£30,420)
The chart below breaks down mundane activities and shows the potential earnings based on each ad revenue:
“How To Get Dressed” – which you could argue has a cynical reasoning behind it’s high performance.
Still highlights that channels are making a substantial amount of income from filming every day activities and putting ads on them.
Children
Those with children could earn even more money. While £1M from every day activities is a lot, channels can earn an extra £190,000 through filming reading bedtime stories or putting them the kids to bed.
While many Brits are working from home at the moment due to the coronavirus pandemic, many of them could earn some extra income. Such as £2,237,659 from filming their morning routine. With £6,047 coming from washing hands.
In January 2020, it was announced that YouTube monetisation rates rose to an average of £13 per 1,000 ad views. While taking into account the 59% drop off rate. It could earn people a staggering £3,744,061.
EDITORS NOTE:
Average UK salary used is £30,420 as posited by the Office For National Statistics.
The potential earnings were calculated based on the most-viewed and relevant video from the top five search results, with each query beginning with ‘how to [mundane activity]’.
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Kill Ben Lyk – New RED BAND TRAILER
British Dark Comedy is always a blast at the cinema and the new film Kill Ben Lyk, looks to continue that trend! It’s the debut film written and directed by Erwan Marinopoulos and stars Eugene Simon (“Game of Thrones”) and Simone Ashley (“Sex education”)
The film has had success on the international film festival circuit, Kill Ben Lyk will be out in UK Cinemas nationwide from 22nd November via ourscreen.
Plot
Multiple bullets, multiple targets, one name. Pop quiz: someone is running around London killing your namesake. What do you do? Do you run? Do you stay and fight? If you’re quasi-famous YouTuber Ben Lyk (Eugene Simon), you vlog about it and hope for the best. That is, until Scotland Yard try and sort it out, rounding him up along with every other Ben Lyk in town, keeping them holed up in a safe house that isn’t so safe. And once the Ben Lyk’s begin dropping dead one by one, it’s a mad dash to figure out why this is even happening in the first place.
Kill Ben Lyk Stars:
Eugene Simon (“Game of Thrones”) stars as one of eight other Ben Lyk’s, including:
Ashley Thomas (“Top Boy” and “Black Mirror”),
Distraction Pieces Podcast presenter Scroobius Pip (“Taboo”),
Bruce MacKinnon (Guardians of the Galaxy),
Bronson Webb (The Dark Knight),
Youtube star Daz Black (“Daz Black watches”),
Charlie Rawes (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
Gretchen Egolf (The Talented Mr. Ripley).
Dimitri Leonidas (“Riviera” and The Monuments Men)
Mixed Martial Arts superstar Martyn Ford (“The Nevers” and Kingsman: The Golden Circle)
and James Chalmers (Vanity Fair).
Kill Ben Lyk is 77 mins / English / Cert 15
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Mavic Mini – A Vloggers Dream!
This is a MUST for all filmmakers! DJI Mavic Mini!
Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Thursday, 31 October 2019
DJI have released their latest drone. However, this time it’s small. Very small. The foldable Mavic Mini is the lightest and smallest model that DJI have released. It weights 249g and comes with a whole host of features. That makes flying drones and aerial photography fun and accessible for everyone. The size of the Mavic Mini too doesn’t require FAA registration either!
Mavic Mini has a range of 2.5miles (4km) and has a flight time of 30mins. GPS recievers and downward visual sensors allow for precise hovering and stable flying. It has 2.7k video and 30fps which is a higher resolution than the Mavic Spark (1080p)!.
However, it doesn’t have obstacle avoidance or quickshots (pre-programmed flight photography). The Mavic Mini is designed for simple every day use, fun, quick set up and go. Not your high end filmmakers. Think of this one for your vlogging arsenal.
You can get the Mavic Mini in 2 different options.
One option, a standard option, comes with the Mavic Mini, remote controller, one batter, extra propellers and accessories for $399.
The Fly More Combo comes with all the things available in the standard but with a 360 degree propeller cage, 2-way charging hub, 3 batteries, 3 sets of extra propellers and a carrying case. All that for $499.
Available on November 11th by clicking here!
(Engadget)
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