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We’re now past Google Photos‘ all-important storage policy change. If you’re a Google Photos user, your high-quality and express-quality photos now count towards your free 15GB storage. If you go beyond that, you’ll have to buy more storage in the form of a Google One plan. A poll previously conducted on
Android Authority suggested that most of our readers don’t want to pay extra for Google Photos storage.
So in light of the new storage policy change for the service, we thought of asking you if you’re sticking with Google Photos or switching to an alternative service. Here’s how you voted in our poll.
YouTube says that over the past 12 months, it has paid out $4 billion to the global music industry, including revenues derived by ads and subscriptions for artists, songwriters, and rights holders. Furthermore, 30% of that sum or $1.2 billion was derived from user-generated content, YouTube says such as native creators making cover videos of their favorite songs. In these cases, both publishers and creators are eligible to share ensuing ad revenues. In a blog post, YouTube’s global music head, Lyor Cohen, touted that YouTube Music also added more paying members in the first quarter of 2021 than in any quarter since its launch. YouTube Music operates both paid and ad-supported tiers, with 2 billion users watching music videos monthly, per Cohen. YouTube says that over the past 12 months, it has paid out $4 billion to the global music industry, including revenues derived by ads and subscriptions for artists, songwriters, and rights holders.
Amid the BLM protests of 2020 came a call to make the music industry accountable on race – but while new initiatives are helping, real change is still slow in the UK