[ad_1] Here’s how the program works: every 120 days, Byte will establish a pool of funds that it will divide between participating creators. Participants go up a “Viewership Bracket” ladder the more views they get, and going up a bracket means earning more money. Everyone in a bracket earns the same amount and will be […]
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Vine successor Byte vows to fix its spam problem
[ad_1] “We’re aware of the issues with comment spam and more widely with certain types of comments,” founder Dom Hofman wrote in a community post. “This is our top priority and we’re working very hard to address it. It should be noticeably better than it was 24 hours ago and should continue to improve over […]
Vine co-founder launches a new 6-second video app: Byte
[ad_1] In 2017 Twitter pulled the plug on Vine, and left a community of extremely-short-form-video creators without a platform. Since then TikTok has flourished, but it’s still not the same thing. Vine cofounder Dom Hofmann has been teasing a sequel since late in 2017, and after months of being in closed beta, Byte is now […]
Facebook hires former Vine head for its New Product Experimentation Team
[ad_1] Now that we’ve moved to CA, I suppose it’s a good time to share what I’m up to next! In two weeks, I’ll be joining Facebook as a PM Director starting up a new initiative under the recently formed NPE team (https://t.co/HzK6Bjqzqx) — Jason Toff (@jasontoff) July 15, 2019 Toff left Vine in 2016 […]
Vine successor Byte is now in closed beta
[ad_1] As you can see from Hofmann’s early demo of the app, Byte has the same feel as Vine, but delivers vertical videos instead of the boxed loops of its predecessor. TechCrunch also reports that the current version only allows direct camera recordings — meaning no uploads — and features a feed with Likes and […]