So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to remove me from whatever Circle he has me in where he posts the animated gifs and cat pictures. It was either that or unfollow him and I didn't see any reason to unfollow him. Me asking https://plus.google.com/112885755521259735422/posts/78dwnvvgh4p Then he plusses me onto Public posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/EuuR1tnU3vJ https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/8r6Grcm2Jpj https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/74PgSu6iL2s Then one of his friends (or Circlers) starts plussing me into posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107120198886093172821/posts/gRW9JhWLs5T Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sarcasm and messing with people, but this seems sort of childish to me. Am I the only one who thinks so? So far I have only blocked people who have overtly spammed a thr...
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It's basically Twitch.tv (which Amazon bought), but built on the YouTube platform (with it's billions and billions of ready-made views).
Subscribe to a channel, and you'll get a notification as soon as they start a live stream. This will be useful to me and some other people I know - even though I'm a Fulltime RV Dweller, and not a gamer. We host periodic Hangouts on Air, and right now the only way to let the people who enjoy watching them know is to schedule a Google Event ahead of time - but even then, you can't invite your whole subscriber base to the event, you can only send an invite people that you have circled. Having your ALL your subscribers automatically notified that you've gone live will be a tremendous boon. Right now, those of us that have 1500-20,000 subscribers will see maybe 20 people show up to scheduled weekly Hangouts on Air. In addition, We’re also creating single link you can share for all your streams. will be massively helpful, since there will only be one URL that subscribers would use to tune in.
It'll take a while for non-gamers to figure out how to bend the tech to their desires, but it'll happen, and it'll be good for the internet ecosystem.
When people want to know something (GTA V Reviews, The Witcher 3 Walkthrough "quest name", "How to replace spark plugs BMW R1100RS") etc, they go to Google. YouTube is Google - so with the launch of gaming.YouTube.com, as streamers migrate from Twitch.TV (or as they start to stream to both, somehow), that content will become infinitely more 'googleable'. The streams (and streamers) will show up in Google results, which will increase the discoverability of entertaining content, which will increase view counts.
There are already a handful of fulltime RVers who are generating enough AdSense revenue from their YouTube Videos that "YouTubing" is their job description, and those people have only 20k-ish subscribers, in a very, very niche interest.
If they can set up gaming.youtube.com so that gamers/streamers can monetize with AdSense, parents around the world will have to eat some "You can't make a living playing games, Billy (Hans, Yuki, Karen)!" crow.