EXCLUSIVE: The biggest players in UK children’s TV are being asked to attend a summit early next year to try and resolve grave funding issues amidst existential questions over the genre’s future. The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) has been preparing the summit for months including via a series of consultative meetings with all the major
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Donald De La Haye Jr., aka Deestroying, started making YouTube videos well before earning a football scholarship as a kicker at the University of Central Florida. His path took a number of surprise turns before he found himself sharing a stage with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — not as a draft pick but as a
Kai Cenat, the popular YouTube and Twitch streamer who instigated an out-of-control gathering Friday near Union Square Park in Manhattan, will be charged with inciting a riot. Cenat will be charged with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly, police said at a press conference. He could face up to three years in prison if convicted. Thousands
YouTube drew a round of applause from advertisers at its annual Brandcast event by announcing it would let them run 30-second commercials that can’t be skipped by viewers on connected-TVs. The feature will be available via YouTube Select, a curated platform for top-end advertisers Introduced several years ago. The new 30-second initiative will affect 70%
A group of YouTube TV subscribers has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Disney, claiming that the company’s business deals with competitors have inflated the amount consumers pay for streaming live TV services. The plaintiffs from four states claim that, because Disney requires streamers including YouTube TV to include ESPN in base packages, they are paying
YouTube said today that more than 1.5 billion logged-in users are watching YouTube Shorts every month as it moves to cement its role as rival to short-form juggernaut TikTok. Google’s YouTube launched Shorts in late 2020 to compete with the ubiquitous social media platform owned by ByteDance of China. TikTok, which saw its global popularity
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube has ordered five new original projects as part of its Black Voices Fund. It will launch Recipe for Change: Amplifying Black Women featuring Mary J. Blige, Saweetie, Tabitha Brown, Jackie Aina, which will see them come together to to celebrate the stories, traditions, identities and experiences of Black women as they gather around the
Russian air strikes have hit a TV tower in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and TV channels have stopped broadcasting in the past hour, according to local reports. The Kyiv Independent published a photo of the strike saying that the TV channels had gone down and AP also reported the Ukrainian parliament saying Russian forces had