From the long-awaited second season of “Squid Game” coming to Netflix on December 26,  Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” starring Angelina Jolie, Lisa Kudrow’s new comedy “No Good Deed”, Joe Barton’s “Black Doves” starring Keira Knightley, to Jamie Foxx’s latest comedy special “What Had Happened Was…”, among other titles.

I for one I’m excited to watch “A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter” a holiday variety music special that will be added to the streaming service on December 6. The show is to feature duets with Chappell Roan, Shania Twain, Tyla, and Kali Uchis, and will also include appearances from Nico Hiraga, Kyle Mooney, Quinta Brunson, Owen Thiele, Cara Delevingne, Megan Stalter, Jillian Bell, and Sean Astin.

Here’s everything coming to Netflix this December 2024:

December 1:  Bunk’d season 7 (TV show), Burlesque (movie), Daddy Day Care (movie), The Happytime Murders (movie), Little (movie), Midway (movie), Project X (movie), We’re the Millers (movie), and Zero Dark Thirty (movie)

December 2: 30 for 30: Bad Boys (TV show), 30 for 30: Celtics/Lakers: The Best of Enemies (TV show), 30 for 30: Sole Man (TV show), 30 for 30: This Magic Moment (TV show), 30 for 30: This Was the XFL (TV show), and 30 for 30: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York (TV show)

December 3: Fortune Feimster: Crushing It (comedy special)

December 4: The Children’s Train (movie), Churchill at War (documentary), The Only Girl in the, Orchestra (documentary), Tomorrow and I (TV show), That Christmas (movie), and The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On season 3 (TV show)

December 5: BEASTARS final season: part 1 (TV show), Black Doves (TV show), Compliance (movie), Jentry Chau vs the Underworld (TV show), Subservience (movie), Top Chef: Boston (TV show), Top Chef: Kentucky (TV show), and Top Chef: Seattle (TV show)

December 6: A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (music special), Biggest Heist Ever (documentary), Camp Crasher (movie), Echoes of the Past (TV show), and Mary (movie)

December 9: The Great British Baking Show: Holidays season 7 (TV show), and Rubble and Crew season 1 (TV show)

December 10: Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was… (comedy special), Polo (TV show), and Rugged Rugby: Conquer or Die (TV show)

December 11: The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga (documentary), Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World (documentary), Maria (movie), One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part 1 (TV show), and Queer Eye season 9 (TV show)

December 12: La Palma (TV show), and No Good Deed (TV show)

December 13: 1992 (TV show), Carry-On (movie), and Disaster Holiday (movie)

 December 16: The Dead Don’t Die (movie), and The Equalizer seasons 1-3 (TV show)

December 17: Aaron Rodgers: Enigma (TV show), and Ronny Chieng: Love To Hate It (comedy special)

December 18: Julia’s Stepping Stones (documentary), and The Manny season 2 (TV show)

December 19: The Dragon Prince season 7 (TV show), Project Runway seasons 18 & 19 (TV show), and Virgin River season 6 (TV show)

December 20: Ferry 2 (movie), The Six Triple Eight (movie), Umjolo: Day Ones (movie), UniverXO Dabiz (documentary)

December 21: Flipping Out seasons 6-8 (TV show)

December 24: Your Friend Nate Bargatze (comedy special)

December 25: NFL on Christmas: Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans (live event), and NFL on Christmas: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (live event)

December 26: Squid Game season 2 (TV show)

December 28: Maestro in Blue season 3 (TV show)

December 30: Mad Max: Fury Road (movie)

December 31: Avicii – I’m Tim (documentary), Avicii – My Last Show (movie), Evil season 3 (TV show), Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall (comedy special), and The Millionaire Matchmaker seasons 5-7 (TV show)

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With these updates, DStv Stream provides seamless streaming, user-centric navigation, and innovative technology. With the new look and enhanced functionality, DStv Stream is dedicated to showcasing the wealth and diversity of its content library while keeping the viewer’s needs at the forefront.

As part of this new update, DStv Stream also introduces two impressive features designed to give users greater control and flexibility over how they watch: Reverse EPG and Cloud PVR Recordings.

Reverse EPG allows users to scroll back up to 24 hours on selected channels to watch anything they missed. Whether it’s a big sports event or a favorite show, this feature means viewers can simply go back in time and pick up where they left off. This feature is available on popular channels including SuperSport Football, SuperSport Grandstand, SuperSport WWE, SuperSport Action, ESPN, CNN Intl, and BBC World.

The Cloud PVR Recordings feature will allow viewers to save live content and enjoy it at their convenience. Recordings are kept for up to 30 days under “My Stuff,” giving customers the freedom to watch what they want when they want.

Starting this month, these features will roll out gradually across the DStv Stream apps on iOS and Android devices, as well as dstv.stream, and other supported platforms. Customers with auto-update enabled will receive these updates automatically, while others can manually update the DStv Stream app to access the latest features.

These changes are part of DStv’s effort to provide seamless streaming, easy navigation, and superior user experience. With Reverse EPG and Cloud PVR Recordings, DStv Stream continues to put customer needs first by offering more ways to stay connected and engaged with the wealth of available content.

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We explore how to use the Netflix Ads Manager to advertise on Netflix effectively. From constructing your first advertisement to advertising optimization, we will explain step by step how to use advertising on Netflix effectively.

The significance of connected TV marketing in the growing media atmosphere

When analyzing the metrics on the Ads Manager for Netflix, it is important to first understand the royalties of CTV advertising. A connected TV is any television that can connect to the internet and streaming ads, which has turned into an essential platform for marketers who want to promote to massive audiences.

The growing trend of ‘cord cutting’ where consumers end their association with traditional pay cable television has made it critical for marketers to embrace OTT (over-the-top) advertising through streamers such as Netflix and Hulu Now etc., OTT technology brings about the cutting edge innovations in the field of advertising especially targeting audiences sitting in the comfort of their living rooms as CTV ads do.

Netflix Ads Manager is the advertising network embraced by Netflix a few months back and to use that, brands will have to create and manage video campaigns directly on Netflix Ads Manager the hub is self-serve so any brand can make such campaigns. Businesses are offered a one-of-a-kind opportunity in that respect as their ads can be viewed by 238 million subscribers of Netflix worldwide. Advertisers had the option to adjust their advertisements per audience segment, location, and viewers’ behaviors so that their content reached the right audience.

Netflix Ads Manager is aimed to preorder a much better experience for advertisers in starting from the managing of ad campaigns all the way to monitoring their performance. The platform provides powerful targeting options along with tracking performance metrics making it easy for advertisers to manage their campaigns better over time.

The benefits of using Netflix Ads Manager

1. Ability to reach a very large market

Thus, using recent statistics, it can be said that today Netflix has millions of subscribers worldwide, and millions of them are in the USA. Using one of the advertising ingredients available to you through Netflix Ads Manager completely shifts this dynamic as you become able to reach out to this vast audience and force out your message.

2. Stronger engagement levels

Advertising spots on Netflix are high-quality ones and people consume these ads in a dedicated environment leading to better audience engagement. Moreover, consumers watching content through Connected TVs tend to be more engaged, hence there is a greater opportunity to reach them through effective video advertisements.

3. Customized advertising targeting

The repository of viewer data available on Netflix’s platform enables more accurate audience targeting. Advertisers can reach selected groups of people on the basis of demographics such as age, sex, location as well as the type of the viewer’s past viewing habits. This increases the chances of your ad being noticed by the appropriate audience during the peak watching hours thus increasing the chances of conversion.

4. Advertising campaign authorization

Netflix Ads Manager gives freedom to the advertisers starting from setting the overall budget to when the ads are going to show. Advertisers can adjust certain pre-defined restrictions for advertising based on periodic performance statistics aiming at optimizing the advertising campaigns for even better returns.

Establishing a campaign with the help of Netflix Advertising Manager

• Register your profile

You will need to create a profile, which is the first step towards using Netflix Ads Manager. This stage is simple and takes time, moreover, it involves entering information about the business and setting up an account, this is like how other self-serve advertising platforms work.

• Specify the key performance indicators for the campaign

Before launching the campaign, it is essential to indicate key expectations about the campaign. Would you want to enhance the recognition of the brand, boost website visits, or get more sales? Specifying your expectations will enable you to pick the ad format and targeting options that perfectly match your needs.

• Target your campaign geographically

Using Netflix Ads Manager, advertisers can target the audience in detail. Viewers can be grouped according to their age, gender, or approximate income of the household. Going deeper, however, targeting can also be done on where the user is – on Netflix for what purpose – for example, watching which content. For example, if there is a product catering to action movie viewers, one can target that specific group to view that advertisement more.

• Decide on the type of advertisement you will use

The main advertising form used by Netflix consists of videos that run before, during, or after its original content. Such advertisements are usually 15-30 seconds long and are designed for the TV screen. That is why the content of the video needs to be of good quality since the aim is to grab the viewers’ attention from that placement.

Ad Formats Available from Netflix Ads Manager:

• • Pre-Roll Ads: These play before the selected content begins.
  • Mid-Roll Ads: These play during a natural break in the content.
  • Post-Roll Ads: These are shown after the content ends.
• State your budget

Within Netflix Ads Manager, you can choose a daily or campaign lifetime budget on Your Space campaigns. There is also the CPM model which gives charges based on every impression for the advertisement. Flexible budget means that there can be use of the advertised campaigns in a way that is likely to be dictated by the performance of those given campaigns.

• Place and manage your campaign or advertisement

After your campaign or advertisement goes live, Netflix Ads Manager allows you to track the performance of your campaign via its dashboard. The platform provides detailed statistics on the number of reaches, impressions, engagement rates, and other metrics. These insights can facilitate the optimization of your campaign, such as audience targeting or ad creativity.

Improving the effectiveness of your Netflix advertisement campaign

Continuous optimization is the key to successfully managing an advertisement campaign on Netflix. Follow the rules outlined below to guarantee that your advertisement achieves excellent results:

• Utilize marketing performance ROI

Engagement metrics can also help you advocate performance marketing which translates to looking into viewer action metrics (clicks, visits, conversions, etc.) that can be measured. Sponsorship performance reporting analytics or Netflix Ads Manager can help you understand viewer engagement metrics and whether or not the ad is effective. Optimize the campaign utilizing these metrics to reach higher goals and targets.

• Try out and experiment with several Ad campaigns including video Ads

Split advertising campaigns with different messages will allow you to determine not only the most effective ad copy, but also the audience itself. Instead of the length of the videos, try altering the message that you want to convey or the call to action to determine what will produce the most response.

• Target by activity

For better targeting accuracy, users can be targeted based on activities within Netflix, such as what shows they watch or their favorite genres. Users of a brand that sells workout apparel might target users who watch fitness programs or any sports related programs.

Advantages of programmatic advertising strategies

Why not try programmatic advertising, which in its simplest sense, means that it eliminates the need for humans to buy ads by using algorithms and information to get your ads in front of viewers who count. This could make the most of your Netflix advertising since you will be certain that your ads are placed during the right periods and for the right targeted audience.

1. Enhance engagement for the connected TV

Given that ads on Netflix are most likely watched on big screens it becomes essential to also develop content that is aesthetically pleasing on the TV. Where possible, ensure that the visual quality of your ad is enough to be appealing on large screens and consider how your ad is read from far, even across the room.

How to evaluate the performance of your Netflix Ads

It reveals how each of your measures of success performed, tracking budget utilization while pursuing your campaigns is essential in getting insights into and improving on your future endeavors. All Netflix Ads Manager offers all-in-one reporting of results, such as:

• • Impressions: What Is the total number of ads shown to the viewers?
  • Engagement Rate: How many of these viewers processed your ad (they’ve clicked, visited the site, etc.)
  • Audience Reach: How many different sets of viewers were exposed to your ad?
  • Conversion Metrics: How many of those exposed to your ad acted after viewing the ad, for instance, making a buy or sitting on your site?

Netflix advertising via Netflix Ads Manager is an interesting area for brands willing to reach consumers on one of the biggest streaming platforms in the world. Because of the solid direction of focusing on audience targeting, knowing the audience, and using interesting video formats, the advertisers will manage to launch successful campaigns that will provide results. Whether it is necessary to strengthen recognition or raise the interests of potential clients, Netflix Ads Manager possesses the features needed for success.

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Some of the titles to prepare you for the holidays include “A Holiday Engagement”, “The Christman Trap”, and “My Dad’s Christmas Date” all coming to Netflix on November 8. Other shows arriving to the streamer this November include Season 4 of the hit drama series “Outer Banks” which will release part two of its new season on November 7. “Cobra Kai” Season 6 Part 2 is coming on November 15 while the Cannes-winning crime musical “Emilia Perez” will arrive on November 13.

Other titles to look forward to if you are a fan of the animated shows are “Arcane” Season 2, Act 1 (Nov. 9) and Season 2, Act 3 (Nov. 23), and “Tokyo Override” (Nov. 21), among others. For those into documentaries, a new documentary, “Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley,” will be added to the streamer’s library on November 13.

Here is what is new on Netflix in November 2024:

Coming Soon

• A Man on the Inside.
• The Later Daters.
• Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain.
• The Trunk.

Nov. 1: Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase, It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football, Let Go, 60 Days In (Season 7), A Paris Christmas Waltz, Fall Into Winter, Free State of Jones, Goosebumps, Just Go With It, Love in the Wild (Season 2), Maid in Manhattan, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Oblivion, Pompeii The Scorpion King, Sixteen Candles, Superbad, The Whale, and Whiplash.

Nov. 5: Love Village (Season 2).

Nov. 6: Love Is Blind: Argentina, Meet Me Next Christmas, and Pedro Páramo.

Nov. 7: 10 Days of a Curious Man, Born for the Spotlight, Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson, Face Off (Seasons 6-8), Outer Banks (Season 4, Part 2).

Nov. 8: A Holiday Engagement, Bank Under Siege, The Cage, The Christmas Trap, Investigation Alien, My Dad’s Christmas Date, Mr. Plankton, Vijay 69, and Umjolo: The Gone Girl.

Nov. 9: Arcane (Season 2, Act 1), and The Lost City.

Nov. 10: Focus.

Nov. 11: Rob Peace.

Nov. 12: Adrienne Iapalucci: Dark Queen, Rhythm + Flow: Brazil, The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, and Fast & Furious 6.

Nov. 13: Emilia Pérez, Hot Frosty, The Mothers of Penguins, Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley, Sisters’ Feud, and Sprint (Part 2).

Nov. 14: Beyond Goodbye, The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, and The Lost Children.

Nov. 15: A.P. Bio (Seasons 1-4), Cobra Kai (Season 6, Part 2), Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, and Million Dollar Decorators (Season 2).

Nov. 16: Arcane (Season 2, Act 2).

Nov. 18: Wonderoos (Season 2).

Nov. 19: UNT. Adam Ray / Dr. Comedy Phil Special, and Zombieverse: New Blood.

Nov. 20: Adoration, Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, GTMAX, The Merry Gentlemen, Our Oceans, Rhythm + Flow (Season 2), and Shahs of Sunset (Seasons 3-4).

Nov. 21: Maybe Baby 2, and Tokyo Override.

Nov. 22: 900 Days Without Anabel, The Empress (Season 2), Gold Rush (Seasons 1-2), The Helicopter Heist, JOY, The Piano Lesson, Pokémon Horizons: The Series (Part 4), Spellbound, Tex Mex Motors (Season 2), Transmitzvah, and When the Phone Rings.

Nov. 23: Arcane (Season 2, Act 3).

Nov. 25: Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, The Creature Cases (Chapter 4).

Nov. 26: Anthony Jeselnik: Bones and All.

Nov. 27: Chef’s Table (Volume 7), and Our Little Secret.

Nov. 28: Asaf, Is it Cake? Holiday, and The Madness.

Nov. 29: Senna, and The Snow Sister.

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The following are the five most important factors to consider when creating an effective video event promotion.

Clear Message and Goal

Start by defining the ultimate purpose of your promo video, before you even grab that camera. Do you want to create hype, deliver critical facts, or discuss the big picture of your event? Your message should be self-explanatory from the beginning. This does not mean attempting to stuff every detail into the video but also means moving away from more about this later and just focusing on why someone should attend your event.

Engaging Visuals

What can be stated about the video is that the picture paints a thousand words. Right, consumers are known to have eyes and will be attracted to objects and pictures with nice and quality seizure Ensure that you have a high quality of the promotional video. Good footage flowing transitions, and creative camera angles sets the atmosphere for your event.

If you have any previous footage of the event, use that footage to show how promising and energetic the event can be. Or, you could leverage creative animations, strong text overlays, and invigorating graphics to substitute for the absence of prior event material. Interactive visuals help to hold the attention of your audience, making them far more likely to stick around and watch all the way through.

See also: Technology’s impact on the evolution of visual content

Strong Storyline

A good video to promote an event should not just be information, your creator can help you weave some of the arbitrary observables into a story. What the event promotional video is about, why it matters and what attendees will experience can all be part of storytelling that makes viewers identify with content on a personal level.

Perfect Use of Music and Sound

Audio is one of those little things that seem to be overlooked in your promotional videos. The music you use can create an atmosphere of emotion for Energy that will give your video its message. For example, a professional but exciting corporate event might benefit from some uplifting and powerful music to help convey this mood, while the soundtrack in a video that was shot at an energy-filled concert or music festival could greatly thrive off of lively, upbeat tunes.

Be mindful of voiceover, sound effects, and ambience apart from good audio and music is a powerful demographic to create a good viewing experience where viewers can simply get lost in the video so make sure that music compliments your visuals and not take over from whatever you are creating grams.

Call to Action

On the same note, if there is a weak call to action, even an excellent video, presentation, design, and even professionalism in the making of the video are wasted. A call-to-action persuades the viewer to make a move, either flying out their site where they would now be able to provide them with your details, enrolling for this event, or observing tales on their social channels. Your CTA should be said clearly or scripted at the end of your video.

An effective your event promotional video the more attendees you are likely to drive to come, which leads directly to building up enthusiasm. By building a deep, clear message with powerful visuals fueled by great storytelling and music, paired up are the proper calls to action that give you a video that ignites excitement in hopes of moving people towards making things happen. If properly executed, a promo video is like a secret weapon; it speaks directly to your fans, increases the exposure of your event, and gets things off on the right foot.

Also read:

• • Effective strategies to promote your videos and grow your audience
  • How video transcript generators can improve SEO for your video content
  • How video marketing can improve your website conversion rates

High-Quality Visuals and Audio: Professional-looking visuals and crisp audio are non-negotiable. Whether it’s filming a speaker in action or showcasing event features like comfortable office chairs in a sleek, modern setting, make sure the imagery is appealing. Highlighting comfort elements such as ergonomic office chairs in a conference room can subtly reinforce the idea that your event is thoughtfully planned, ensuring attendees will feel both physically and mentally comfortable.

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The literal meaning of face swap is just substituting one person’s face for another on a video or an image; the technology behind this is machine learning, more specifically deep learning. The last step aims to study different facial features and movements to integrate a swapped face into the received sequence. There are programs today, that have become famous such as DeepFaceLab and Reface that enable people with different skill levels in AI to use the technology.

The use of AI face swap is in making amusing content. For example, the application features allow one to replace a head in movie clips or music videos; this is entertaining and can be shared. It should be noted that this kind of technology is popular in social media where authors aim at creating new approaches to reach the public.

On the other hand, image-to-video tools convert static images into videos. These tools apply artificial intelligence to enable the creation of motion, transitions, and effects to the images, making the images alive. Services like Pictory and Animaker let users make attractive video content from images; these tools are bundled with such tools as scene transitions and voiceovers.

The main strength of image-to-video tools is in passing information through various uses of movements and sounds. When images are animated it becomes much easier for the persons creating them to come up with videos, which will guarantee the viewers their attention as compared to images that are not animated. This makes image-to-video tools especially helpful for marketers, teachers, and any content-creating studio that wants to get the most reach.

See also: OP-ED: The rise of AI in cloud-based security: empowering a new era of video surveillance

Use cases: where each tool excels

It is therefore important to have different considerations when comparing AI face swap and image-to-video tools. AI face swap is used mostly for generating personalized humorous content. This technology is best suited for short videos produced to share or share a laugh; appropriate for social media. Using popular culture images and logos, it is quite simple for users to create interesting clips that would compel their viewers.

In contrast, the image to video tools are useful in scenarios, which demand narration and passing of information. For instance, the educators expose the capability of turning the infographics into occasional animated teaching and the marketers may transform the product images into attractive selling incentives. This essentially brings much utility image-to-video, especially for the educating and entertaining goal of creators.

1. Quality of output: A comparative analysis

AI face swap applications tend to work as expected and, when used on high-quality footage, the results are incredible. The flow of the swapped face, where the face of the subject replaces the face of the identified person can make it very hard for the viewers to notice that a face swap has been done. However, the quality of the output may vary from one source to another, depending on the algorithm used.

While image-to-video updated tools put a lot of effort into how clean the generated video looks and whether it can tell a coherent story or not, realism takes a back seat. Indeed the animations may not hit the pixel-perfect standard, especially like the AI face swap tools, but it keeps the audience engaged and makes perfect sense to use animation to retain the flow of the story. Another advantage is that animations and effects can be created and adapted according to the purposes of the content being delivered.

2. User experience and accessibility

One of the major things that differentiate these technologies is in terms of user experience. AI face swap tools are a little bit tedious and one may need to be a little knowledgeable when it comes to using them to get the best outcome. Some of them require the users to know basic concepts of video editing and some of them may take more time to learn. But once one shapes it there is no end to how it can be used creatively.

Conversely, image-to-video tools are generally more user-friendly, often featuring intuitive interfaces designed for creators of all skill levels. These platforms typically provide templates and automated features that simplify the process of turning images into videos. As a result, even individuals with minimal technical knowledge can produce polished video content quickly and efficiently.

3. Ethical considerations

Each of the two AI methods of face swap and image-to-video comes with several ethical concerns. AI face swap can be used to create fake content that is malicious or embarrassing and therefore, there are issues of privacy and consent. Such personification raises concerns as to what deepfakes mean and who will be held accountable for their production.

Similar to text-to-image tools, image-to-video tools are less sensitive as they are but also entail ethical considerations, especially the veracity of the content being passed. Some facts may be misrepresented through animated sequences or deceptive graphics hence it is wrongly acceptable to distort the truth in an animation.

See also: What is the best video encoding format?

Therefore, while AI face swap and image-to-video all work in the same area of video generation, they have different practical applications. AI face swap is best used to develop content that is entertaining and humorous for various social media applications while the image-to-video applications are most useful in narrating a story or sharing information.

It is up to the creator to decide, which technology will suit certain goals better. When the goal is to create viral content with some level of entertainment value and a hint of cheekiness, AI face swap is what would be opted for. In addition, while many creators are using image-to-video tools to share stories and communicate information, these tools are more appropriate. Since the shift in focus moves towards the generation of digital content, it becomes crucial to determine the strong and weak points of such technologies to help authors make the best use of them and make ideas stand out in the age of active competition in cyberspace.

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The service understands that while fans and creators have been interacting through the comments and the Community tab, “conversations would often revolve around a creator’s latest video or post.”

“We wanted to build a space where, for the first time, subscribers can chat with each other and the creator directly,” writes Whitney Taylor, the Head of Design, YouTube Community.

According to the blog post, Taylor says this new feature is a result of feedback from creators and their fans. They heard the creators and their fans want more ways to connect – that for the creators, their content and communities are already on YouTube, “so we have the potential to be the best place for deeper conversations too.”

“Another consistent theme was the desire for belonging – people want a place where they feel included and understood by like-minded peers.”

YouTube acknowledges the importance of balancing vibrant engagement with an environment where you can express yourself authentically, whether you’re sharing something, asking a question, or just hanging out.

“You know that feeling, that magic, that joy that comes from finding a group of people that just get you,” said the director of Product Management at YouTube Bangaly Kaba, during the event. “Communities is a place where you can choose to create that with your fans. This is a place where you and your fans can come together to build even deeper connections over the topics and videos you love, not just posting updates between uploaders or asking for opinions or ideas, but for the first time, subscribers will spark their discussions with you and with each other.”

It is important to understand that the new Communities feature isn’t the same as the already existing YouTube Community feature, which only allows creators to share text and images with their viewers, but doesn’t allow viewers to interact with each other.

The Communities feature is currently being tested on mobile devices with a small group of creators, however, YouTube plans to test it with more creators later this year before expanding to additional channels next year.

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Now, for the fans of Selling Sunset, you will be happy to know that the eighth season of the reality show premiers on Netflix on Sept. 6, while Part 2 of the fourth season of “Emily in Paris” comes to Netflix on Sept. 12, and the Netflix original film “Uglies” starring Joey King hits the streamer on Sept. 13.

Netflix users should also be looking forward to a new Netflix original film “Rebel Ridge”( Sept. 6), the second season 2 “Of Outlast”(Sept. 4), and the seventh season of “The Circle”(Sept. 11) all coming to the streaming service this September.

As for me, I will be waiting for Nicole Kidman in “The Perfect Couple” a six-episode murder mystery drama based on a 2018 bestselling book by Elin Hildenbrand that hits Netflix on Sept. 5. Another title I’m excited to stream is “His Three Daughters” (Sept. 20), a family drama starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne.

Here’s what’s coming to Netflix in September 2024:

Coming Soon

• An Invisible Victim: The Eliza Samudio Case.
• Bangkok Breaking: Heaven and Hell.
• Divorce.
• The Great Indian Kapil Show (Season 2).

Sept. 1: 300, 5 Centimeters Per Second, Along Came Polly, BLUE GIANT, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Dragnet, The Expendables (1, 2, 3), Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Field of Dreams, Jaws (1, 2, 3), Legends of the Fall, Magic Mike, Midnight Run, Paul Blart: Mall Cop (1,2), Shark Tale, Sonic the Hedgehog, Stand by Me, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Wipeout: Batch 3.

Sept. 2: Call the Midwife (Series 13), Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef, and The Hughleys (Seasons 1-4).

Sept. 3: Last One Standing (Season 3), Phil Wang: Wang in There, Baby!, and Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer.

Sept. 4: Outlast: Season 2.

Sept. 5: Apollo 13: Survival, Caught in the Web: The Murders Behind Zona Divas, and The Perfect Couple.

Sept. 6: Disco, Ibiza, Locomía, Rebel Ridge, and Selling Sunset (Season 8).

Sept. 7: Edge of Tomorrow.

Sept. 9: Hot Wheels Let’s Race (Season 2).

Sept. 10: Ahir Shah: Ends, and Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood with My Father

Sept. 11: Boxer, The Circle (Season 7), and Technoboys.

Sept. 12: Angel Di Maria: Breaking Down the Wall, Billionaire Island, Black Mass, Emily in Paris (Season 4 Part 2), Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter, and Midnight at the Pera Palace (Season 2).

Sept. 13: Officer Black Belt, Sector 36, and Uglies.

Sept. 15: Ancient Aliens (Season 8), Heels (Season 1-2), and Intervention (Season 23).

Sept. 16: 30 for 30: Catholics vs. Convicts, 30 for 30: Pony Excess, 30 for 30: Rand University, 30 for 30: The U, 30 for 30: The U Part 2, American Gangster, CoComelon (Season 11), and Entourage.

Sept. 17: Culinary Class Wars, and Live from The Other Side with Tyler Henry.

Sept. 18: Envious.Lopez vs. Lopez (Season 2), and What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates.

Sept. 19: Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Mendez Story, The Queen of Villains, and Twilight of the Gods.

Sept. 20: His Three Daughters, and KLASS 95: The Power of Beauty.

Sept. 24: Penelope (Season 1).

Sept. 26: A True Gentleman, Everything Calls for Salvation (Season 2), and Nobody Wants This.

Sept. 27: Lisabi: The Uprising, Rez Ball, We Were Kings, and Will & Harper.

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Just like Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video has quite several TV shows and films that they will be adding to their library this month for their watchers —among which include Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy & The Hobbit film trilogy, buddy cop action comedy film; 21 Jump Street (1 and 2), The Superman film series, Mark Herman’s holocaust historical drama film; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and a pseudo-documentary horror film; The Poughkeepsie Tapes as well as one of my favorites (really! I don’t know why) Stardust. As for kdrama fans (Korean films and dramas have gained so much attention and are loved by many, at least), you get to watch No Gain No Love at the end of the month.

These are just a few Prime Video is adding to their list. The video on-demand over-the-top streaming service is adding movies from way back to 1949 to the current; 2024. The list is pretty much dominated by older movies with the oldest being Sullivan’s Travels; a comedy film about Hollywood director John L. Sullivan who sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. Others include; Little Women (1949), When Worlds Collide (1951), Invaders from Mars (1953), There’s Always Tomorrow (1956), Psycho (1960), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Warriors (1979), Terms of Endearment (1983), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).

So you can dive back —to old school, way before chroma key screens—more commonly known as green screens were extensively like today.

Here’s a full list of movies added to Amazon Prime Video this month;

Between Aug 1 – Aug 4

• Howard the Duck
• Influenced
• The Return of the Living Dead
• The Poughkeepsie Tapes
• From Beyond
• The Terminal
• Windtalkers
• Showgirls
• Ghost
• The Crow
• Upcoming Green Zone PosterWant to See
• Seen It
• Green Zone
• The Wood
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Extended Edition Scenes
• For Colored Girls
• Batman: Caped Crusader
• Eastern Promises
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Monster Trucks
• Narc
• American Graffiti
• No Manches Frida 2
• Superman (1978)
• Face/Off
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Diary of a Mad Housewife
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Troll
• What Lies Beneath
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Frogs
• 21 Jump Street (2012)
• Fargo
• Looper
• Annie (1982)
• Bad News Bears
• Basic Instinct 2
• Passengers
• Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
• There’s Always Tomorrow
• Breakdown (1997)
• Adventureland
• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
• How to Be a Latin Lover
• Road to Perdition
• Superman Returns
• War of the Worlds
• The Losers
• Troll 2
• Lover Come Back
• Three Days of the Condor
• Stardust
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
• 22 Jump Street
• Overboard
• Fatal Attraction
• Trauma Center
• The Whale
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story
• The Day of the Jackal
• Perfect Strangers
• Death Becomes Her
• Terms of Endearment
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• The Dark Half
• Upcoming Once Upon a Time in the West Poster
• Seen It
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• The Firm
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Traffic
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Little Women
• Flight of the Intruder
• Mousehunt
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
• Superman II
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Annie (2014)
• Pulp Fiction
• Psycho
• Bowfinger
• Sense and Sensibility
• Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Scarface
• Cinema Paradiso
• Ronin
• Dante’s Peak
• Imitation of Life
• Superman III
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown
• When Worlds Collide
• Good Boys
• The Zookeeper’s Wife
• Southland Tales
• Upcoming Invaders from Mars PosterWant to See
• Seen It
• Invaders from Mars
• The Warriors
• Darkman
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• For Love of the Game
• Jacob’s Ladder
• Emma
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Between Aug 5 – Aug 11

• Judy Justice
• The Mallorca Files
• French Girl
• One Fast Move
• Nadie nos va a extranar

Between Aug 12 – Aug 18

• Night Swim
• Paddington
• Jackpot!

Between Aug 19 – Aug 25

• Drive-Away Dolls
• 10 Cloverfield Lane

Between Aug 26 – Aug 30

• No Gain No Love
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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