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YouTube Music is an on-demand, streaming music service launched by Google in 2015. Available across multiple devices including desktop, mobile and smart speakers, YouTube Music has become a popular platform for discovering new songs, creating playlists and accessing music from around the world. With an extensive catalogue of songs and curated playlists, YouTube Music is a versatile platform that allows users to stream music, watch music videos and even download tracks for offline listening. Designed to be user-friendly and accessible, YouTube Music uses artificial intelligence to learn what music people like and recommend similar tracks based on their listening history. Subscribers can access official music videos, live performances, remixes, and cover songs, making it a one-stop-shop for music enthusiasts. The platform also offers personalized playlists based on the time of day and mood, such as “Wake up Happy” or “Chill Out.” To enhance the listening experience, YouTube Music also has a feature called “Smart Downloads,” which automatically downloads recommended songs and videos when the device is connected to Wi-Fi. Overall, YouTube Music is an excellent platform for discovering new music, staying up-to-date with the latest releases and creating personalized playlists for all occasions.

Neal Mohan is a highly successful Indian-American businessman and computer engineer who has developed some of the best-known digital media platforms in the world. Starting his career at Microsoft, Mohan rose through the ranks and eventually became the head of display advertising for Google, where he led the redesign of one of the company's flagship products, AdSense. After a brief stint at YouTube, he returned to Google to oversee all of the company's advertising products, as well as its core search and display businesses. In 2018, he became the Chief Product Officer of YouTube, where he has continued to drive innovation and growth. Mohan is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the digital advertising industry, and his contributions to the development of online marketing platforms have had a significant impact on the way we consume digital content. His expertise in engineering, product management, and marketing has enabled him to create products that are both incredibly effective and user-friendly. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a strong commitment to using technology to improve people's lives and has been recognized for his contributions with several awards and accolades. In many ways, Mohan represents the future of digital media, and is poised to continue shaping the industry for years to come.

The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research in Critical Marketing Studies in one authoritative and convenient volume. The world’s leading scholars and rising stars collaborate here to provide a survey of this lively subdiscipline. In doing so they demonstrate how a critical approach yields an enriched understanding of marketing theory and practice, its role in society, and its relationship with consumers themselves. It is the first attempt to capture the state of Critical Marketing research in many years. As such, this seminal work is unmissable for scholars and students of marketing and consumer research as well as those exploring sociology, media studies, anthropology and consumption scholarship more generally.

YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, reciprocity, and community—apply to sociality on YouTube. Lange's book reconceptualizes and updates these concepts for video-sharing cultures. Lange draws on 152 interviews with YouTube participants at gatherings throughout the United States, content analyses of more than 300 videos, observations of interactions on and off the site, and participant-observation. She documents how the introduction of monetization options impacted perceived opportunities for open sharing and creative exploration of personal and social messages. Lange’s book provides new insight into patterns of digital migration, YouTube’s influence on off-site interactions, and the emotional impact of losing control over images. The book also debunks traditional myths about online interaction, such as the supposed online/offline binary, the notion that anonymity always degrades public discourse, and the popular characterization of online participants as over-sharing narcissists. YouTubers' experiences illustrate fascinating hybrid forms of contemporary sociality that are neither purely mediated nor sufficient when conducted only in person. Combining intensive ethnography, analysis of video artifacts, and Lange’s personal vlogging experiences, the book explores how YouTubers are creating a posthuman collective characterized by interaction, support, and controversy. In analyzing the tensions between YouTubers' idealistic goals of sociality and the site's need for monetization, Thanks for Watching makes crucial contributions to cultural anthropology, digital ethnography, science and technology studies, new media studies, communication, interaction design, and posthumanism. For its perceptive analysis of video blogging for self-expression and sociality, Thanks for Watching received the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression (2020), from the National Communication Association.

Social media initiatives, when effectively used and correctly monetized, can engage customers better and provide higher ROI rates than traditional marketing and sales initiatives. This book presents a selection of monetization strategies that can help companies benefit from social media initiatives and overcome the current challenges in connection with generating and growing revenues. Using cases and examples covering several social media platforms, the authors describe a variety of strategies and holistic solutions for companies. In addition, the book highlights the latest social media innovations, best business practices, successful monetization cases, and strategic trends in future social media monetization. Top executives need to read this book to have a big picture of corporate-wide “social strategy,” form a “social mindset,” and infuse a “social gene” into their company’s culture, strategy, and business processes. Armed with these social elements, companies can gain confidence, effectively introduce social media tools, and invest in major social media initiatives. Due to changing consumer behavior, social media is also ideal for building and sustaining quality relationships with customers – which is why it is becoming an indispensable element in today’s business.

Presenting cutting-edge thoughts on media economics, its history and development, and looking forward to its future, this timely book investigates the changing face of the field. With contributions from some of the most prominent media economics scholars in the world, this provocative and visionary Research Agenda covers theory development, consumer and audience demand, information and cultural goods, and technological dimensions.