New Delhi, April 28 (Ians) Google Cloud and Polygon Labs have announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate adoption of core Polygon protocols, making it easier for developers to build, launch, and grow their Web3 products and decentralised applications.
Google Cloud will support all Polygon protocols, including Polygon PoS, Polygon Supernets, and Polygon zkEVM, with Google Cloud infrastructure and developer tools.
To help developers overcome the time-intensive processes and costly overheads associated with provisioning, maintaining, and operating their own dedicated blockchain nodes, Google Cloud will bring Blockchain Node Engine, its fully managed node hosting service, to the Polygon ecosystem.
“Google Cloud supporting all of the Polygon protocols is a step in the right direction to help onboard more people into Web3,” said Ryan Wyatt, President, Polygon Labs, during the ‘Consensus 2023; event.
To provide founders in the Polygon ecosystem with more resources to scale their innovative Web3 products and decentralised applications, eligible...
Google Cloud will support all Polygon protocols, including Polygon PoS, Polygon Supernets, and Polygon zkEVM, with Google Cloud infrastructure and developer tools.
To help developers overcome the time-intensive processes and costly overheads associated with provisioning, maintaining, and operating their own dedicated blockchain nodes, Google Cloud will bring Blockchain Node Engine, its fully managed node hosting service, to the Polygon ecosystem.
“Google Cloud supporting all of the Polygon protocols is a step in the right direction to help onboard more people into Web3,” said Ryan Wyatt, President, Polygon Labs, during the ‘Consensus 2023; event.
To provide founders in the Polygon ecosystem with more resources to scale their innovative Web3 products and decentralised applications, eligible...
- 4/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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YouTube has hired Leo Olebe, a games partnerships executive at parent company Google, to lead the video giant’s gaming division, a Google spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
Olebe will fill the top gaming executive role at YouTube roughly nine months after Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s former head of gaming, exited in February to become the CEO of the Web3 company Polygon Studios.
At Google, Olebe currently leads the games partnerships team for Google Play, where he works closely with developers and publishers. He previously spent more than five years at Facebook, now known as Meta, where he led the company’s global games partnerships and business development and launched Facebook Gaming’s Black gaming creator program.
Olebe will join YouTube as the company has begun poaching a number of top gamers — including Benjamin Lupo (“DrLupo”), Tim Betar (“TimTheTatman“), Rachell Hofstetter (“Valkyrae”), Elliott...
YouTube has hired Leo Olebe, a games partnerships executive at parent company Google, to lead the video giant’s gaming division, a Google spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
Olebe will fill the top gaming executive role at YouTube roughly nine months after Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s former head of gaming, exited in February to become the CEO of the Web3 company Polygon Studios.
At Google, Olebe currently leads the games partnerships team for Google Play, where he works closely with developers and publishers. He previously spent more than five years at Facebook, now known as Meta, where he led the company’s global games partnerships and business development and launched Facebook Gaming’s Black gaming creator program.
Olebe will join YouTube as the company has begun poaching a number of top gamers — including Benjamin Lupo (“DrLupo”), Tim Betar (“TimTheTatman“), Rachell Hofstetter (“Valkyrae”), Elliott...
- 10/19/2022
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Following the departure of global content head Susanne Daniels, YouTube is losing three more executives at its top echelons.
YouTube’s head of gaming Ryan Wyatt; its senior director of creator partnerships, Jamie Byrne; and VP and global head of product partnerships Heather Thompson Rivera have all exited the company. Rivera is reportedly joining Instacart, though there’s no word yet on Wyatt or Byrne’s future plans.
Wyatt manages global teams and is responsible for all aspects of YouTube gaming business, including creator acquisitions, esports league agreements, and publisher partnerships. He joined YouTube in Oct. 2014, having previously served as head of live and esports at early McN Machinima.
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YouTube’s head of gaming Ryan Wyatt; its senior director of creator partnerships, Jamie Byrne; and VP and global head of product partnerships Heather Thompson Rivera have all exited the company. Rivera is reportedly joining Instacart, though there’s no word yet on Wyatt or Byrne’s future plans.
Wyatt manages global teams and is responsible for all aspects of YouTube gaming business, including creator acquisitions, esports league agreements, and publisher partnerships. He joined YouTube in Oct. 2014, having previously served as head of live and esports at early McN Machinima.
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- 1/25/2022
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
YouTube global gaming head Ryan Wyatt teased some features that are slated to arrive in 2022, he said -- many of which were developed in response to creator feedback
YouTube is exploring ways to let creators turn Clips -- in which viewers share the best moments from a live broadcast -- into Shorts, its TikTok-like format. “We’re also looking to bring over some of the most popular gaming tools to Shorts,” Wyatt said.
Other imminent product launches include Gifted Memberships and Live Redirect For Gaming -- a feature inspired by Twitch Raids that lets creators send viewers directly to another stream upon the conclusion of their own.
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YouTube is exploring ways to let creators turn Clips -- in which viewers share the best moments from a live broadcast -- into Shorts, its TikTok-like format. “We’re also looking to bring over some of the most popular gaming tools to Shorts,” Wyatt said.
Other imminent product launches include Gifted Memberships and Live Redirect For Gaming -- a feature inspired by Twitch Raids that lets creators send viewers directly to another stream upon the conclusion of their own.
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- 10/29/2021
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Denver-based indie production company Listen Productions has tapped 20-year film festival veteran Britta Erickson as Head of Distribution. She will work with Listen founder Mitch Dickman and Head of Development Suz Loshin as the company grows its slate of film and series content across traditional and digital media platforms.
Erickson had been the director of the Denver Film Festival for the past 12 years; she remains a program consultant. With the move to Listen, she is attending this week’s Telluride Film Festival on behalf of Denver Film and representing Listen and its slate, which includes a scripted comedy series currently in development and two documentary features in postproduction.
“Having worked with Britta for years on various projects, we knew she was the perfect fit to join our team as we entered the next all-important phase of content production here at Listen,” said Dickman. “We are funding, producing, and going to...
Erickson had been the director of the Denver Film Festival for the past 12 years; she remains a program consultant. With the move to Listen, she is attending this week’s Telluride Film Festival on behalf of Denver Film and representing Listen and its slate, which includes a scripted comedy series currently in development and two documentary features in postproduction.
“Having worked with Britta for years on various projects, we knew she was the perfect fit to join our team as we entered the next all-important phase of content production here at Listen,” said Dickman. “We are funding, producing, and going to...
- 9/3/2021
- by Valerie Complex and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
With 2020 drawing (mercifully) to a close, YouTube Gaming head Ryan Wyatt is looking back at the platform’s biggest year ever.
This year, Wyatt says, YouTube's gaming vertical accrued 100 billion hours of global watch time (10 billion of which hailed from live streams). This means that annual watch time on YouTube Gaming has doubled since 2018, when the platform garnered roughly 50 billion watch hours. Additionally, there are currently 40 million active gaming channels active on the platform.
In a blog post, Wyatt attributed some of this growth to the pandemic, with fans increasingly turning to gaming as both a means of connection and entertainment, resulting in the industry hitting an unfathomable inflection point of growth, he said. “At these numbers, I believe our competition is now more the likes of Netflix than any other gaming video platform,” Wyatt tweeted. “Gaming video is becoming the primary source of content consumption for entertainment.”
And...
This year, Wyatt says, YouTube's gaming vertical accrued 100 billion hours of global watch time (10 billion of which hailed from live streams). This means that annual watch time on YouTube Gaming has doubled since 2018, when the platform garnered roughly 50 billion watch hours. Additionally, there are currently 40 million active gaming channels active on the platform.
In a blog post, Wyatt attributed some of this growth to the pandemic, with fans increasingly turning to gaming as both a means of connection and entertainment, resulting in the industry hitting an unfathomable inflection point of growth, he said. “At these numbers, I believe our competition is now more the likes of Netflix than any other gaming video platform,” Wyatt tweeted. “Gaming video is becoming the primary source of content consumption for entertainment.”
And...
- 12/8/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Today, Google announced its ambitious bid for a slice of the video game development sphere.
That bid is called Stadia, and it's a cloud-based game platform where users will be able to play games instantly -- no download required -- on computers and mobile devices via Google’s Chrome browser. Google also unveiled Stadia Games & Entertainment, its own in-house game development studio, which will be headed by Jade Raymond, the founder of Ubisoft Toronto.
On top of those announcements, though, Google revealed that Stadia is coming with some major streaming features built specifically for YouTubers.
“We’re always looking for ways to strengthen the connection between creators and viewers, and Stadia is designed to bring them together like never before,” Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s head of gaming, said during Google's announcement at the 2019 Game Developers Conference. Gaming creators are particularly important to YouTube because, collectively, they rake in a 200 million viewers per day,...
That bid is called Stadia, and it's a cloud-based game platform where users will be able to play games instantly -- no download required -- on computers and mobile devices via Google’s Chrome browser. Google also unveiled Stadia Games & Entertainment, its own in-house game development studio, which will be headed by Jade Raymond, the founder of Ubisoft Toronto.
On top of those announcements, though, Google revealed that Stadia is coming with some major streaming features built specifically for YouTubers.
“We’re always looking for ways to strengthen the connection between creators and viewers, and Stadia is designed to bring them together like never before,” Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s head of gaming, said during Google's announcement at the 2019 Game Developers Conference. Gaming creators are particularly important to YouTube because, collectively, they rake in a 200 million viewers per day,...
- 3/19/2019
- by James Loke Hale
- Tubefilter.com
In the year since its release, battle royal game Fortnite has become a massive moneymaker for YouTube creators and Twitch streamers alike. Its popularity has given rise to stars like Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins, who just became the first pro gamer to appear on the cover of ESPN The Magazine. And on YouTube's brand new 'Gaming' hub, the platform frontloaded Fortnite, offering links to current livestreams 24/7.
However, according to a conversation Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s director of gaming content and partnerships, recently had with The Verge, Fortnite is not actually YouTube’s No. 1 game.
That spot still belongs to Minecraft, the open-world, multiplayer sandbox game that singlehandedly kick-started the YouTube gaming craze seven years ago. Like Fortnite, Minecraft turned into a lucrative career for some creators, the majority of which posted ‘Let’s Play’ videos, recording the process of building their intricate architectural creations, or journeying through Minecraft’s landscape with friends.
However, according to a conversation Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s director of gaming content and partnerships, recently had with The Verge, Fortnite is not actually YouTube’s No. 1 game.
That spot still belongs to Minecraft, the open-world, multiplayer sandbox game that singlehandedly kick-started the YouTube gaming craze seven years ago. Like Fortnite, Minecraft turned into a lucrative career for some creators, the majority of which posted ‘Let’s Play’ videos, recording the process of building their intricate architectural creations, or journeying through Minecraft’s landscape with friends.
- 9/19/2018
- by James Loke Hale
- Tubefilter.com
YouTube is putting its standalone gaming app out to pasture. YouTube Gaming, which the platform launched as a specialized destination for gaming creators and viewers in 2015, is officially being retired in March 2019. And while the app will be no more, it will be replaced by a new landing page for desktop users: youtube.com/gaming.
On the new hub — already live and still called ‘Gaming’ — YouTube brings together live streams and video content from popular creators and up-and-coming gamers alike. It will also spotlight newer creators each week with its ‘On The Rise’ feature. YouTube is trying to use the new landing page and associated features to boost creators' visibility in a way the Gaming app did not, as Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's head of gaming, told Polygon.
“The problem is, if you didn’t have the app, or you weren’t using the gaming hub to kind of like discover this content,...
On the new hub — already live and still called ‘Gaming’ — YouTube brings together live streams and video content from popular creators and up-and-coming gamers alike. It will also spotlight newer creators each week with its ‘On The Rise’ feature. YouTube is trying to use the new landing page and associated features to boost creators' visibility in a way the Gaming app did not, as Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's head of gaming, told Polygon.
“The problem is, if you didn’t have the app, or you weren’t using the gaming hub to kind of like discover this content,...
- 9/18/2018
- by James Loke Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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