Streampunks: How YouTube and the New Creators are Transforming Our Lives

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Synopsis
***Axiom Business Book Award Winner!***Something massive is shifting in the world of entertainment.Across the planet, humans spend more of their free time watching video than doing anything else. But increasingly it’s not TV they're watching, but online video. In 2016, Swedish vlogger PewDiePie made a record $15 million from his YouTube videos, beating Hollywood A-listers like Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts and Amy Adams. Something massive is shifting in the world of entertainment. Since its founding in 2005, YouTube has become the first and only truly global media platform, with over a billion users worldwide. It has changed the media industry as profoundly as the development of radio, film and television. In Streampunks, YouTube’s Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl gets to the heart of this creative revolution through behind-the-scenes stories of its biggest stars – YouTubers like Tyler Oakley, Lilly Singh, and Casey Neistat—and the dealmakers brokering the future of media, like Scooter Braun, who scouted 12-year old Justin Bieber on YouTube, and Vice media mogul Shane Smith who used the platform to turn young people onto news and current affairs.By giving anyone with a smartphone their own TV channel, YouTube is fuelling a new creative boom. Not only is it generating the new faces of entertainment, but also changing how students are taught, how social issues are discussed and how small businesses advertise and develop.Streampunks is the definitive book on the modern pop-culture juggernaut Youtube, the platform remaking the face of entertainment.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780753545959
Related ISBNs:
9780753545928
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Robert Kyncl, Maany Peyvan
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Reference, Art and Architecture, Computers and Internet, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Communication
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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