CBS will bring a new over-the-top service to the market. The Eye network has confirmed it will launch a Showtime video subscription service in early July 2015, with Apple signed on as the service’s first distribution partner.

The upcoming service, which is slated to work over broadband internet, will cost $10.99 per month and will include access to Showtime’s library of shows. The service will be available to owners of Apple devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs (much like how HBO’s Now subscription service worked at launch). CBS may pursue other distribution partners in the future.

“Going over-the-top means Showtime will be much more accessible to tens of millions of potential new subscribers,” said CBS Corporation’s President and CEO Leslie Moonves, as reported by Variety. “Across CBS, we are constantly finding new ways to monetize our programming by capitalizing on opportunities presented by technology. This works best when you have outstanding premium content – like we do at Showtime – and when you have a terrific partner like Apple – which continues to innovate and build upon its loyal customer base.”

“We’re excited to offer Apple customers Showtime’s live channels and extensive on demand library of great TV shows and movies, without a cable or satellite subscription,” added Apple’s SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue. The Apple executive also explained how his company and CBS hope to make purchasing Showtime as “simple as buying an app.”

CBS started entertaining the idea of a Showtime service back in November 2014. Now, the upcoming service will join CBS’s previous foray into that market. The network launched its All-Access service, with access to many past and present CBS titles, in October 2014 for $5.99 per month. Since then, CBS has revealed All-Access subscribers watch twice as much content as non-subscribers. The service currently boasts over 100,000 subscribers.

The yet-unnamed Showtime subscription service will arrive in July 2015, likely around July 12 when the network’s two shows Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex debut their new season premieres.

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BuzzFeed has a new leader in its ranks. The media publisher has appointed Frank Cooper III as the company’s new Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Creative Officer.

Cooper will be in charge of overseeing BuzzFeed’s entire global business and brand. He will work alongside the company’s leadership team to conduct market research, drive revenue, develop brand partnerships, and oversee marketing. Cooper will also lead BuzzFeed’s creative team and its branded content initiatives with the company’s advertising partners. The new CMO/COO will report to BuzzFeed President Greg Coleman and work out of the company’s New York office starting in late June 2015.

Cooper arrives at BuzzFeed with over 30 years of marketing industry experience. Previously, he was the CMO of Global Consumer Engagement for PepsiCo. At that brand, Cooper was a proponent of YouTube advertising and was a key factor in Pepsi establishing its own in-house content studio called The Creators League. Before his position at Pepsi, Cooper held marketing leadership positions at AOL and Def Jam Records.

“Throughout my career, I’ve been obsessed with the convergence of four things: culture, brand marketing, data and technology,” explained Cooper. “There’s only one company today that sits at the intersection of all those things, which is why this role at BuzzFeed was irresistible to me,” said Cooper in a release. “With [CEO] Jonah [Peretti]’s vision and Greg’s world-class business acumen, the opportunity could have not been more clear. I can’t wait to get started.”

“Our company is evolving from a growing U.S. website to a global media company with massive scale,” added Coleman. “That transition, communicating the effectiveness of our advertising product, the marriage of data and branded content, and the task of building an international brand could only be handled by one of the best in the business. We couldn’t be more thrilled Frank Cooper has joined us to take on that exciting challenge.”

BuzzFeed claims 200 million unique views per month from around the globe. The company’s video content alone drives 1 billion monthly views.

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The awards ceremony that honors the most talented and successful content creators from within the online video community is coming back for its fifth rendition, and this time, it will air on TV. The Streamy Awards, co-produced by Dick Clark Productions and Tubefilter, will return on September 17th with a live broadcast on VH1 that will begin at 10 PM EST.

As in previous years, the Streamy Awards will include a pair of Audience Choice categories–Entertainer of the Year and Show of the Year–as well as dozens of other categories whose winners will be selected by a Blue Ribbon Panel. This year, a total of 44 categories will be represented; new ones include everything from Documentary or Investigative Program to Breakout Creator to a pair of Short Form categories that cover content on Vine, Instagram, and Snapchat.

The live broadcast on VH1 will be the first ever TV presentation of the Streamy Awards; in previous years, the event was only live streamed over the Internet. “The VH1 audience is connected on every platform. So it’s a natural for VH1 to celebrate the innovators who, like us, entertain literally millions of viewers,” said Tom Calderone, President of VH1, in a press release. “We couldn’t be more excited to partner with dick clark productions and Tubefilter on amplifying all of the amazing creativity of the past year by presenting the Streamy Awards for the first time ever on television.”

With the broadcast date now set, Dick Clark and Tubefilter are inviting both creators and fans to submit. On the Streamys website, creators can nominate their own work in appropriate categories. At the same time, fans can support the shows and creators that mean the most to them. In each category, the nominee who receives the most fan nominations will automatically become one of the five contenders.

Happy submitting, and good luck to the nominees. Here, via the Streamys website, is a list of all 44 categories:

Overall (9)

Animated
Animated channel, series, or show predominantly featuring non live-action elements

Breakout Creator
Individual featured in a channel, series, or show not previously nominated

Comedy
Comedy channel, series, or show

Drama
Drama channel, series, or show

First Person
Channel, series, or show predominantly featuring one character addressing the audience directly

Indie
Channel, series, or show produced primarily without funds and resources from a studio or network

International
Channel, series, or show produced outside of the United States and Canada

Non-Fiction
Channel, series, or show featuring vlogging, non-fiction, or reality programming

Spin-Off
Channels, shows, or series created as a derivative to, or extension of, an existing property such as a television show, feature film, or video game

Subject (13)

Action or Sci-Fi
Action or sci-fi channel, series, or show

Beauty
Beauty channel, series, or show including tutorials, reviews, and how-tos

Documentary or Investigative
Documentary or investigative channel, series, or show

Fashion
Fashion channel, series, or show including clothing, accessories, haul videos, and how-tos

Food
Food or cuisine channel, series, or show including cooking shows and how-tos

Gaming
Gaming channel, series, or show including let’s play, walkthroughs, battles, and machinima

Health and Wellness
Health and wellness channel, series, or show including nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle programming

Kids and Family
Kids and family channel, series, or show including children’s programming

Lifestyle
Lifestyle channel, series, or show including daily vlogs and travel

News and Culture
News and culture channel, series, or show including archival programs, current events, explainers, pop culture, and recaps

Pranks
Pranks channel, series, or show including human challenges

Science or Education
Science or education channel, series, or show including educational programming, how-tos, life hacks, technology, and tutorials

Sports
Sports channel, series, or show including traditional, competitive, and alternative sports

Performance (5)

Actor
Performance by a male actor in a comedy or drama channel, series, or show

Actress
Performance by a female actor in a comedy or drama channel, series, or show

Collaboration
Collaboration between two or more performers from different channel, series, or show

Dance
Dance performance including choreography, competitions, and music videos

Ensemble Cast
Three or more performers from the same channel, series, or show

Music (3)

Breakthrough Artist
Individual artist or group, not previously nominated, that distributes musical works primarily through an online video platform

Cover Song
Original performance of a song from another artist or group

Original Song
Original song from individual artist or group that distributes musical works primarily through an online video platform

Craft (6)

Cinematography
Cinematography for a channel, series, or show

Costume Design
Costume Design for a channel, series, or show

Directing
Directing for a channel, series, or show

Editing
Editing for a channel, series, or show

Visual and Special Effects
Visual and Special Effects for a channel, series, or show

Writing
Writing for a channel, series, or show

Social Video (4)

Short Form Comedy
Comedy videos on platforms such as Instagram, Vine, or Snapchat

Short Form Creativity
Use of creativity on platforms such as Instagram, Vine, or Snapchat

Snapchat Storyteller
Snapchat account

Viner
Personality-driven Vine channel

Campaign (2)

Brand Campaign
Brand campaign that engages audiences with innovative use of original online video and best practices in social media

Social Good
Cause-related video campaign dedicated to activism, charity, public service, or social good

Audience Choice (2)

Entertainer of the Year
Individuals or groups selected by public vote

Show of The Year
Channels, shows, or series selected by public vote

Full Disclosure: Tubefilter is the co-producer of The Streamy Awards and Tubefilter founders Drew Baldwin and Joshua Cohen are founders of the Streamy Awards, too.

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In May, YouTube announced a competition through which it would select the best ad from its first decade of existence. Instead of allowing viewers to vote for any ad from the past ten years, YouTube narrowed the selection down to 20 videos and asked its users to choose a favorite from among that group.

The voters ultimately decided on an ad driven by a pair of sporting celebrities. YouTube has announced Turkish Airlines’ “Kobe Vs. Messi: The Selfie Shootout,’ as the winner of its branded video competition.

The “Selfie Shootout” video features the two sports superstars as they jet around the world attempting to one-up each other with increasingly extravagant selfies. Since its release in 2013, the “Seflie Shootout” has become one of the most viewed branded videos of all-time, generating more than 140 million hits.

In claiming the top spot in YouTube’s competition, the “Selfie Shootout” beat out several other popular and beloved spot. The second and third spots went to a pair of Super Bowl spots: Volkswagen’s “The Force” and Always’ “Like A Girl,” respectively. Volvo’s “Epic Split” and Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” rounded out the top five.

Combined, these five videos have been watched for over 7.7 million hours,” reads a blog post from Google. “That’s over 875 years people chose to spend watching ads! Congrats to all of the winners and nominees and thanks again to all who voted.”

A second blog post outlines ten insights that can be gleaned from YouTube’s most popular ads. Spoiler alert: The most important tip of all is “More Jean-Claude Van Damme.”

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Delta has designed its new safety video to appeal to customers who enjoy watching videos on the Internet, but as it turns out, that’s not the airline’s only overture to its connected clientele. Business Insider reporter Antonio Villas-Boas, who recently flew Delta from Atlanta to New York City, chronicled his experience with what he calls “Netflix in the sky.” As it turns out, Delta is one of several airlines offering its customers a streaming video service that plays through devices like iPads.

As Villas-Boas explains, he discovered the “Delta Studio” service after connection to the plane’s in-flight WiFi. From there, he was invited to browse a selection of movies and TV shows, including Birdman (which isn’t even available on Netflix Instant) and Top Gear.

Business Insider’s commenters were quick to point out that Delta isn’t alone in its decision to implement an airborne streaming video service; Alaska Airlines, United, and Southwest all offer their own WiFi-enabled services. I can confirm that a recent Southwest flight I took invited flyers to stream video on their mobile devices. At the same time, a lack of seat-back or drop-down screens prevent flyers from watching in-flight video in the traditional manner.

Some may see this transition to streaming video as a cost-cutting maneuver from airliners, but there’s no denying that viewing movies and TV shows on HD-enabled mobile devices is a much more aesthetically pleasant experience than low-quality “seat-back viewing.” For that reason, expect these Netflixes in the sky to become much more prevalent, and remember to charge your devices before long flights.

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News just keeps getting worse for cable and pay-tv providers. The most recent American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) found consumers are more displeased than ever with their cable providers and their respective services.

According to the Index, subscription television services tied with internet service providers with an average score of 63 out of 100, based on feedback from about 14,000 surveyed customers in Q1 of 2015. This score of 63 was the worst given out of all 43 industries included in the ACSI. When subscription TV and internet providers were bundled with other information services like computer software and wireless or fixed phone line providers, the ACSI found customers gave these companies a 68.8 score, the lowest level among these categories in the last seven years.

The most notable drop in customer satisfaction came from cable TV and internet providers Comcast and Time Warner (who proposed a merger deal in 2014 but eventually called it off in April 2015). Comcast, which ACSI noted is already one of the lowest-rated providers, dropped its score 10% to 54 out of 100. Time Warner earned “the distinction as least-satisfying company in the Index” with a 9% drop, to hit a low score of 51.

“There was a time when pay TV could get away with discontented users without being penalized by revenue losses from defecting customers, but those days are over,” ACSI Chairman Claes Fornell said in a release. “Today people have more alternatives than ever before. Consumer abandonment of pay TV is shaking up the industry and lower satisfaction could mean even more cord cutting by subscribers ahead.”

ACSI attributes these overall drops in customer satisfaction scores to providers’ poor customer service, low-quality services/broadband, rising prices, lack of available options, and required contract terms. “Customers resent being locked into service contracts, and are not happy with what they see as unreliable service, slow broadband Internet speeds, and rising subscription prices,” the Index noted.

You can read more of the ACSI data and findings via the official press release on the ACSI site.

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YouTube celebrities Chelsea Briggs, Alexandrea Garza, and Meghan Rienks will help one winning couple with the wedding of their dreams. Collective Digital Studio teamed with Conde Nast’s BRIDES publication to help plan the ultimate destination wedding in the BRIDES Live Wedding web series, which debuted on May 29, 2015.

BRIDES Live Wedding was originally a live event; the magazine turned it into a digital series which garnered 6 million views in 2014. For this year’s BRIDES Live Wedding series, Briggs, who hosts the Hollywire TV YouTube channel (which boasts 1.1 million subscribers), will host each episode. Garza (with over 390,000 subscribers) is set to provide decor tips and Rienks (with 1.5 million subscribers) will help with beauty and hair so the lucky bride will feel and look her best on her wedding day.

For the rest of the BRIDES Live Wedding series, BRIDES editors will curate the wedding’s style, theme, honeymoon destination, and more. Fans across the country will be able to vote on these preferences, and with every vote BRIDES will donate funds to the winning couple’s charity of choice. Participating sponsors and vendors for the BRIDES Live Wedding series include David’s Bridal, Sandals Resorts, Delta Airlines, Carlo’s Bakery Gartner Studios, and Mary Kay.

“We are thrilled to welcome YouTube stars Chelsea Briggs, Alexandrea Garza, and Meghan Rienks to the BRIDES Live Wedding family,” said Michelle Myers, BRIDES publisher and chief revenue officer, in a release. “The episodic series has become the cornerstone of this program, and it was a natural progression to incorporate some of the biggest YouTube personalities.”

“Our audience is spending a significant amount of time on YouTube, and many already follow YouTube stars Chelsea Briggs, Alexandrea Garza, and Meghan Rienks,” added Keija Minor, editor-in-chief of BRIDES. “By incorporating them into the series, we are able to speak to our audience with trusted voices, further enhancing the full experience of BRIDES Live Wedding.”

You can watch the first episode of BRIDES Live Wedding on BRIDES’ YouTube channel. Future episodes will be released every Friday up until the official wedding on June 14, 2015, which will be held at the Sandals Whitehouse European Village and Spa in Jamaica.

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Connor Franta will be officially acknowledged for some of his good deeds. The YouTube celebrity, who has over 4.5 million subscribers on his channel, will receive the Governor’s Award at the Thirst Project’s sixth annual Thirst Gala on June 30, 2015, as a recognition for the work he’s done for the organization.

The non-profit Thirst Project was founded in 2008 and has a goal to bring fresh, clean drinking water to the African nation of Swaziland by 2022. So far, the organization has already provided more than 285,000 people in 13 different countries with safe drinking water over the last six years.

Franta initially got involved in the Thirst Project in 2014 after meeting founder Seth Maxwell for lunch. Franta, who was about to turn 22 years old, set up a Prizeo campaign to benefit the Thirst Project. Instead of asking his YouTube fans for birthday gifts, the vlogger asked his viewers to donate to the Prizeo campaign and offered to meet some fans for coffee as incentive. Franta wanted to raise $120,000 for the Thirst Project; in the end, he managed to bring in $230,000 in just 30 days.

“With the large platform that I have, I think it’s very important to utilize it for better and for change,” Franta told The Hollywood Reporter, who originally broke the story. “I think it’s really positive to be an example to my younger audience. Hopefully I can instill those same life lessons in them.”

After Franta successfully raised over $230k, he visited Swaziland to see the wells his campaign had helped build. “The most impactful part was when I saw the new water source versus the old,” he explained. “Water from the old source was green and brown, and it was all that they had.”

Since then, Franta has continued to support the Thirst Project through his own fund-raising venture. The best-selling author and vlogger, a former member of YouTube supergroup O2L, debuted his own line of coffee called Common Culture. For every bag purchased by consumers, Common Culture donates $1 directly to the Thirst Project.

The Thirst Project will also give a Pioneering Spirit Award to film producer Wyck Godfrey (known for the Twilight saga, The Maze Runner series, and the film adaptations of the Vlogbrothers’ John Green books The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns). Godfrey traveled to Africa with his family and Maxwell, where they saw the impact of clean wells on communities. Since then Godfrey has championed the Thirst Project and even enlisted acting talent from his movies to product PSAs about the youth-based organization.

The Thirst Project Gala will take place on June 30 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

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Ten days ago, YouTube sent an email to users who signed up to use the beta version of the site’s Music Key service, which it first unveiled last November. In the email, YouTube announced its plan to extend Music Key’s beta period by four months; from that decision, outlets like The Verge inferred that YouTube needs some extra time to eliminate specific issues before it offers Music Key to the public.

For those of us who have followed Music Key during its long, drawn-out development period, the news of any delay is ominous. After all, the first time we heard about a Music Key setback, it was only supposed to last a few months, but YouTube didn’t officially announce its subscription-based streaming music service until almost a year later. Given that history, it’s easy to wonder how much fine-tuning YouTube actually wants to do.

Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s Head of Content and Business Operations, does not believe potential Music Key users should worry about the delay. “We’re still going through some development,” he told Music Ally. “The launch is coming in a few months from here: there’s a little bit of a delay, but nothing too serious. We got a lot of really great feedback, and thought it was better to address most of it than to launch without [addressing] it… We’re a lot smarter about the product from those heaviest users.”

At the same time, Kyncl didn’t share many specific details about Music Key’s progress. “I can’t promise the date: it’s already going a little too far even saying ‘a few months’ – if you’re delayed another few months you keep getting asked about it,” he said.

Music Key, which will compete with existing services like Spotify (which has its own plans to step into YouTube’s territory) will offer its subscribers a one-stop platform where they will find YouTube’s massive collection of music videos. A free tier will provide users with basic access, while subscribers who pay $8-10 per month will unlock an ad-free streaming experience and other premium options.

This two-tiered model is also a feature YouTube will soon add to its main site. In a recent letter to its creators, it discussed its plan to remove ads for viewers who pay a monthly subscription fee. Music Ally asked Kyncl about those plans, too, but he mainly stressed the site’s focus on its current ad-supported model. “Our free ad-supported business is growing incredibly fast. We’ll always have that: that’s our core, and we’ll never stop focusing on it. It’s in Google’s DNA to be in the ad-supported business,” he said. “Subscription is an add-on. It’s an adjacent business that we’re building.”

While Music Key is not yet available to the public, interested users can submit their email addresses in order to receive updates as the service nears its launch.

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Cable TV channel Fusion describes its target audience as “​​​a​ young, diverse, and inclusive ​​millennial generation.” To effectively reach that generation, Fusion needs to connect with its viewers on the web, and thanks to a new partnership, it will be able to create a plethora of new videos designed for online distribution. Fusion has teamed up with the YouTube Spaces, 3 Arts Entertainment, and a number of well known comedy organizations to launch a digital studio called F-Comedy.

According to a press release, F-Comedy “will produce topical short-form content for a young, multicultural audience that could be developed into other formats including long-form comedy series, comedy news-talk shows and more.” Much of this content will be produced at YouTube Space LA, where Fusion has taken up a production residency.

Fusion’s list of partners for F-Comedy includes a number of comedy hotspots, including Upright Citizens Brigade and The Stand. In addition, existing creators from within the Fusion network will contribute to the new initiative. On the F-Comedy YouTube channel, for example, visitors can find clips from Like, Share, Die, an animated series Fusion recently launched alongside Mondo Media.

“We have understood from the beginning that comedy and satire are incredibly powerful tools to connect with our target audience and that it must be at the core of our content offering,” said Fusion CEO Isaac Lee in the release. “We know that traditional methods of identifying talent and delivering content are changing every day, and our comedy studio brings together leaders in comedy and short-form storytelling arenas to generate content that informs and provokes while also being highly entertaining.”

Fusion is certainly no stranger to the online video world. In particular, it is very active on Snapchat, where it has launched several series alongside stars like Sofia Vergara.

In addition to F-Comedy, Fusion’s YouTube presence also includes its main hub, where it shares both companions for its TV programs and made-for-digital releases. That channel has more than nine million views to date.

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Social Media Week Los Angeles (SMWLA) boasts a variety of speakers, industry experts, and well-known brands throughout the event. But some of these influencers stand out from the rest because of their global impact via social media. Tubefilter and What’s Trending are honoring these impressive movers and shakers in the fourth annual Social 25 list.

The Social 25 list was curated by Tubefilter’s Drew Baldwin and What’s Trending’s Shira Lazar. This year’s honorees include several well-known digital figures, such as vlogger Bethany Mota, Vine stars King Bach, Cameron Dallas and Nash Grier, and YouTube fitness expert Cassey Ho (of Blogilates). Several honorees are representing digital brands in this year’s Social 25 list as well, such as Ze Frank of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures and Stephanie Horbaczewski of StyleHaul.

These digital honorees join other influencers like actress Sofia Vergara (who just inked a deal with Fusion and Snapchat for a reality web series), comedienne Amy Schumer, Yael Cohen and Julie Greenbaum of Fuck Cancer, and Mark Cuban and Ryan Ozonian, who are being recognized for their self-destructing messages app Cyber Dust. All Social 25 honorees will attend a VIP opening-night celebration, sponsored by Famebit, in Santa Monica on June 8.

“We’re so excited to continue this annual tradition” said Lazar in a release. “Los Angeles continues to grow as a hub for a new class of Hollywood including social stars and tech leaders.”

“Once again, it was important to pick a scope of individuals and organizations across entertainment, social action, non-profit, gaming, and more, whose work is creating impact locally but extends globally through social platforms,” added Baldwin.

The Social 25 honorees for 2015 join influencers who made it onto SMWLA’s list the last few years. Previous traditional and digital celebrities and companies on the Social 25 list included Jimmy Kimmel, Hannah Hart, Stan Lee, The Fine Bros., Grace Helbig, Ryan Seacrest, MiTu, Endemol Beyond, Snapchat, and Digitour.

You can view a full list of the Social 25 honorees on the SMWLA website. And if you don’t already have your ticket to the five-day event, you can purchase it here and then start planning your agenda by checking out the SMWLA schedule here.

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YouTube is bringing the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) to virtual audiences worldwide. Google’s online video site is setting up an E3 hub and will live stream announcements, trailers, interviews, and more from its booth at E3, starting June 14, 2015.

YouTube’s E3 hub is enlisting host Geoff Keighley (who recently organized the Game Awards) and popular YouTube gaming talent like Rooster Teeth to provide live coverage from E3. These creators will highlight live “let’s plays” of upcoming video game titles, cover press conferences from major video game developers like EA and Ubisoft, host trivia showdowns, and interview celebrities and top YouTube creators.

“I’m thrilled to announce a partnership with YouTube, the world’s largest video platform, to bring E3 to hundreds of millions of gamers this June,” Keighley stated in a release. “We are rethinking how E3 is covered by putting the creator community at the center of the experience. I can’t wait to bring live video game programming to YouTube in a big way.”

YouTube has announced specific events, both live and on-demand, which viewers of the live stream will be able to enjoy. On June 14, viewers can watch the Nintendo World Championships, as well as the Bethesda press conference that will include a sneak peek of the newest Doom video game.

Then on June 15, YouTube and Keighley will start a 12-hour marathon, sponsored by Focus Features’ upcoming movie Self/less, at 9 AM PST. Keighley has confirmed in a personal blog post that The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Telltale Games will join him that morning, along with professional skater Tony Hawk, who will premiere gameplay from his newest title.

Additionally, viewers of the YouTube live stream will also be able to see the site’s popular Trailer Battle, Nintendo’s Digital Event, and the Treehouse Live event. YouTube’s E3 hub will also feature live streaming coverage from IGN and GameSpot.

YouTube will reveal the channel and URL of its E3 hub closer to the event’s date, so stay tuned for more information.

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