It’s a Friday edition of #TheDailyThree, a weekday recap featuring 3 top stories in digital + a few thoughts. It seems that recently each day has been dominated by news from one brand and today is no different. Let’s talk Google.
1. Ah, yes, another chapter in the Logan Paul saga. Fresh off his hiatus, the YouTube star made headlines again for tasering a dead rat. YouTube, quick to take action, hit him where it hurts: His wallet. They temporarily suspended ad monetization for his account.
2. Weary of the bad press, YouTube announced that they would punish blatant offensive content creators by downgrading their videos + removing ad monetization. Frankly, this doesn’t seem like much of a solution if videos are still being hosted. Trolls will prevail.
3. Finally, Google struck a licensing deal with Getty Images to make copyrighted images + creator attribution clearer to image search users. Getty is well known to be very intense about image-use + Google is likely sick of Getty coming after them w/ complaints.