{"id":1956235,"date":"2023-06-24T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-moves-to-take-out-youtube-heres-the-plan\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:31:36","slug":"musk-moves-to-take-out-youtube-heres-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-moves-to-take-out-youtube-heres-the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s YouTube Takeover: The Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-moves-to-take-out-youtube-heres-the-plan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956235&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Elon Musk Shakes Up Silicon Valley with Twitter&#8217;s Video-Sharing Capabilities<\/h2>\n<p>Since the completion of his Twitter acquisition in October 2022, billionaire Elon Musk has made waves in Silicon Valley by introducing several new additions to the social media platform. Now, Twitter includes extensive video-sharing capabilities that rival the likes of YouTube and Rumble.<\/p>\n<p>Musk recently turned Twitter into a video platform, allowing users to create and interact with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-a-media-pressure-campaign-got-porn-back-on-onlyfans\/\" title=\"How A Media Pressure Campaign Got Porn Back On OnlyFans\">long-form video content<\/a> as well as shorter clips. In less than a year, the Twitter CEO has updated the app&#8217;s video features numerous times, showing his determination to challenge Google&#8217;s video service.<\/p>\n<p>On November 5, Musk announced that Twitter would be adding &#8220;creator monetization for all forms of content,&#8221; including video. This announcement sparked questions online, with Musk suggesting that Twitter could compete with YouTube. In response to a tech reviewer&#8217;s revelation that &#8220;YouTube gives creators 55% of ad revenue,&#8221; Musk tweeted that he could &#8220;beat&#8221; those monetization numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Musk followed up five days later with some specifics in a Q&#038;A session with Twitter employees. He told them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-moves-to-take-out-youtube-heres-the-plan\/\" title=\"Musk's YouTube Takeover: The Strategy\">offer content creators exclusive contracts<\/a> with a 10 percent pay increase over what YouTube provided. Musk expressed his desire to give YouTubers the option of posting their videos on Twitter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">make ends meet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to put YouTube out of business, but I&#8217;m just saying, do we really need to give YouTube a whole bunch of free traffic? Maybe not,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;So at least give creators the option if they would like to put their video on Twitter and earn the same amount as they would, or maybe slightly more, on YouTube or TikTok or whatever the case may be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk has been aggressive in touting Twitter as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/well-be-watching-more-than-200-high-profile-women-demand-big-tech-stop-pandemic-of-online-abuse-against-women-and-girls\/\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019ll Be Watching\u2019: More Than 200 High-Profile Women Demand Big Tech Stop \u2018Pandemic Of Online Abuse Against Women And Girls\u2019\">digital town square<\/a> for free speech since October. The Daily Wire and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson have also joined the platform, taking advantage of its free speech platform and monetization opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Twitter&#8217;s gains in the video space, some remain skeptical about its ability to directly compete with YouTube. However, Musk&#8217;s determination and vision for Twitter&#8217;s future make it an intriguing endeavor. Only time will tell if Musk can deliver on his goal of challenging YouTube&#8217;s dominance in the video-sharing industry.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/musk-vs-youtube-twitters-plan-dominate-video-sharing-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since acquiring Twitter in October 2022, billionaire Elon Musk has revolutionized Silicon Valley by adding new features to the platform. With enhanced video-sharing capabilities, Twitter now competes with YouTube and Rumble. Musk&#8217;s latest move transformed Twitter into a video platform, enabling users to create and engage with videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":1956236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}