Last November, YouTube star, filmmaker, and entrepreneur Casey Neistat announced his plan to end his daily vlog, which had previously propelled him to the upper echelon of the online video community. Four months later, Neistat is once again planning to deliver regular updates on his channel. As he prepares to launch a new company alongside CNN, he will revive his vlog to offer insights on his creative process.

While Neistat has shared plenty of videos over the past four months, his latest one marks a return to the capital-V Vlog that previously served as the mainstay of his YouTube channel. It takes place in Miami, where Neistat and his family traveled to celebrate his 36th birthday. In his address to viewers, he notes that it was two years ago, on his 34th birthday, that he first launched his vlog. At the time, he was in the process of launching Beme, an app that would ultimately be acquired by CNN.

Neistat is currently planning to reposition Beme as a versatile media brand under the CNN umbrella, and the fact that his career has come full circle has inspired him to get vlogging again. When he chose to retire his vlog the first time, he noted that it was no longer fulfilling for him. “I found a system for approaching this daily video that was no longer a challenge,” he said at the time. Now, however, his latest venture has gotten his creative juices flowing. “Here I am, exactly two years later, starting another company,” he told viewers in his latest video, “and all of a sudden I feel like I have a purpose to do this again, and that’s crazy exciting for me. That makes me feel so good.”

A main goal of Neistat’s “new” vlog will be to share updates as he develops his new business alongside CNN. As he puts it, the desire to connect with his fans through the lens of his entrepreneurism is the “exact same thought process that predicated me starting the vlog in the first place.”

As for what exactly Neistat’s new company will do, he has offered some updates about that as well. “The company that we’re building is like a laboratory where we try different apps, we build different software, we make different shows, we’re gonna start a YouTube channel, it’s a whole bunch of stuff,” he said. We’re looking forward to seeing the shape it takes.

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Rosanna Pansino, who hosts one of YouTube’s foremost cooking shows, Nerdy Nummies, and who counts roughly 8.1 million subscribers on her eponymous channel, has announced her next major business venture: a nerd-leaning baking line.

Pansino created the range, which has been dubbed The Ro Collection, alongside Wilton, an Illinois-based food and crafting company founded in 1929 with whom she has also collaborated on 23 branded videos on her YouTube channel over the years. She made the official announcement at the International Home + Housewares Show earlier this month in Chicago, and on her YouTube channel over the weekend.

The range will comprise kitchen tools (including colorful mixing bowls and spatulas printed with digital shapes), 8-bit heart-shaped sprinkles, and decorating tools (geek-chic cookie cutters and cupcake liners adorned with whimsical sayings like ‘life is what you bake it’). Prices have yet to be announced, but the products will bow in late summer at Michael’s and Jo-Ann Fabric & Crafts.

Pansino previously released her very own cookbook, appropriated dubbed The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook, in 2015. Check out some of the products from her upcoming cooking line below:

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The voting for BEST VINES EVER is well underway over on Snakt. And fans are creating their own compilations and remixes from the more than 150,000 six-second clips originally created by over 400 of the site’s biggest stars. One interesting throwback one we stumbled upon comes by way of Snakt user @lemonhead, who aggregated the first uploads from 10 well-known enterprising and early creators into one creative mix.

It’s both interesting and entertaining to see the first efforts from the laundry list of names below and to see how quickly they all joined the platform. Vine officially launched on January 24, 2013 and by the end of May 2013, all of these individuals were already on board. They also pushed the creative boundaries of the six-second, looping, no-uploading, no-editing, in-camera-only application from the start, figuring out ingenious ways to make things compelling in a very short timeframe from Day 1. Here they are in order of appearance and original upload date:

• King Bach – April 29, 2013
• Lele Pons – April 4, 2013
• Brittany Furlan – Feb 11, 2013
• Rudy Mancuso – Feb 18, 2013
• Logan Paul – March 10, 2013
• Brandon Calvillo – March 13, 2013
• DeStorm Power – May 20, 2013
• Josh Peck – April 15, 2013
• TheGabbieShow – April 6, 2013
• Jerome Jarre – Jan 28, 2013

And here’s the compilation:

A flashback to the First Vines Ever from @kingbach, @lelepons, @brittanyfurlan, @rudymancuso, @loganpaul, @bjcalvillo, @destorm, @shuapeck, @thegabbieshow, and @jeromejarre. Vote for your faves on @snakt for BEST VINES EVER! #bestvinesever #BVE #vinestar #vine #vines

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Kinda cool, right? We think so, too. You can go onto Snakt now and make your own compilation of things interesting and entertaining while voting to decide who’ll take home some accolades in BEST VINES EVER! You can find more details over at BESTVINESEVER.co, too, in addition to the information below.

Key Dates:

• Tuesday, March 14 – Vine Creators Submissions Open For BEST VINES EVER
• Friday, March 17 – Fan Voting Begins on Snakt
• Wednesday, May 17 – Invite Only Honors and Party Time

How It Works:

Any former Vine creator can participate by filling out the entry form. Then all your Vines – complete with original captions – will be available on Snakt for fans to vote. Fans can vote within the Snakt mobile app with just one touch of a Vote button.

As always, thank you for helping us pour one out to Vine one last time. It’s going to be a good one.

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[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by OpenSlate. It’s exactly what it sounds like; a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.]

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It’s another installment of the weekly Tubefilter Chart of the Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide and Indian entertainment is still on top.

Chart Toppers

T-Series‘ streak at the top of the charts begins anew as the YouTube outpost of the self-described largest music label and movie studio in India claimed the #1 spot for the second week in a row with just about 298.3 million views. Ed Sheeran is still in second place. The British singer-songwriter’s online video music library is still getting a ton of plays off its multiple recent uploads to the tune of almost 238.4 million views in the week.  

Next up in third place is WorkpointOfficial. The YouTube destination of the Thai media company with interests in television production, filmmaking, event management, animation, publishing, event marketing, and recording shot up 47% in its week-over-week view count to top out at just shy of 202.5 million views on the week. That pushed Ryan ToysReviews down to the #4 spot. The five-year-old’s toy unboxing channel hopped up 17% in views to take home almost 195.4 million views throughout the week.

And rounding out the Top 5, yet again, is SET India. Sony Entertainment Television’s Indian iteration on YouTube jumped up 28% in its view count to close out the week with nearly 182.4 million views.

Top Gainers

The honor of one of the Top Gainers on the chart this week goes to DisneyMusicVEVO.

The VEVO-operated destination for all your high-profile Disney-owned musical numbers had a great week on YouTube thanks to a live-action reprise of one of its most classic tales. The Emma Watson-starring 2017 remake of the 1991 animated feature Beauty and the Beast bowed in the US on March 17, 2017 to an absolute roar of nearly $500 million in box office sales in the first week. That translated to a ton of interest in the new flick’s soundtrack, which sent viewers by the millions to uploads like this “Beauty and the Beast” official music video. That track and more helped the Disney Music channel to a 126% week-over-week increase in views, more than 114.1 million views on the week, and the #12 spot on the worldwide chart.

Channel Distribution

The top 50 most viewed YouTube channels worldwide this week amassed a total of 5,109,650,950 views. Here’s the distribution of a few of those channels by multi-channel network:

• VEVO: 9 channels in the U.S. Top 50, with Katy Perry the highest-ranked channel of the network at #11.
• ONErpm, XMediaDigital: 2 channels each in the Top 50, with ONErpm’s Canal KondZilla at #6 and XMediaDigital’s Get Movies at #23.

And here’s the distribution of the this week’s Top 50 YouTube channels by country of origin:

• United States: 23 channels in the Top 50.
• India: 6 channels in the Top 50.
• Great Britain: 5 channels in the Top 50.
• Brazil: 3 channels in the Top 50.
• South Korea, Russia, Thailand: 2 channels each in the Top 50.
• Argentina, Canada, Chile, Netherlands, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Turkey: 1 channel each in the Top 50.

As always, keep up to speed with the latest Tubefilter Charts and all of our news at Tubefilter by following us on Twitter, becoming a fan on Facebook, and watching our videos on YouTube.

OpenSlate is a video content analytics platform that tracks more than 800,000 YouTube video channels and measures their ability to attract, engage and influence an audience. By providing one consistent measure of quality – the SlateScore™ – OpenSlate helps marketers, producers and agencies hone their online video marketing strategy.

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We receive a ton of tips every day from independent creators, unaffiliated with any major motion picture studios, television networks, new media studios, or other well-funded online video entities. The Indie Spotlight is where we’ll write about and shout out to a select few of them and bring you up to speed on the great (and sometimes not-so-great) attention-grabbing series you probably haven’t heard about until now. Read previous installments here.

If you’re going to make a show about young people trying to make it in the big city, you might as well make that show as over-the-top as possible. One of the wildest, most outrageous web series concepts I’ve ever seen is on display in Neil, Patrick, and Harris, which follows a trio of conjoined triplets as the pursue their dreams in show business.

The protagonists of Neil, Patrick, and Harris are Neil (Shannon Kiely), Patrick (Kimberly Aboltin), and Harris (Hollie Lee), and they are an aspiring comedienne, actress, and singer, respectively. Joined at the hip, they must navigate sitcom situations in which their shared physical condition contributes to the comedy. Six episodes of the show are available through WhoHaHa, the digital platform founded last year by Elizabeth Banks.

Episode #1- Neil, Patrick and Harris: The… by WhoHaha

Across its first season, Neil, Patrick, and Harris delivers some interesting twists I won’t spoil here, but it consistently delivers excellent physical comedy mixed with a snappy script. Check it out and see if you find yourself attached to its characters.

OTHER UNDER-THE-RADAR SERIES TO CHECK OUT

• Special Skills. Aspiring actors try to fail upward in Chicago.
• The Girl From Carolina. This show about a redneck detective is set to release a second season.
• Theater Impossible. An underdog theater troupe looks to beat the odds and succeed.

Got a series you’d like to see featured in the Indie Spotlight? Be sure to contact us here. For best coverage, please include a full episode in your e-mail.

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YouTube Red is getting ready to host its first original series directed at kids, and logically, it is turning to a subject child viewers love: Minecraft. The trailer has arrived for Kings of Atlantis, a series created by and starring the duo behind the popular Minecraft channel TheAtlanticCraft.

Kings of Atlantis is an animated series that stars Cody and Joe, the two creators of TheAtlanticCraft. As the name of their channel implies, many of the their videos take place underwater, and in their new show, they will voice a pair of Atlantean rules who must defend their kingdom from a usurper. The animation style, full of blocky heads and colorful settings, is designed to look like Minecraft, but this is not a machinima series and does not feature the game’s actual graphics.

With its new series and the other original programs it will release for kids, YouTube is hoping to convince children (or their parents) to grab YouTube Red accounts. While Kings of Atlantis will be available through the YouTube Kids app, it will require a subscription to the video site’s premium service, which costs $9.99.

Kings of Atlantis is produced by Omnia Media in association with Mighty Coconut. Its 13-episode first season will premiere on April 7th.

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Several more major brands have pulled their advertising from YouTube following the discovery last month that campaigns were running against extremist videos on the platform from the likes of David Duke and others who encouraged terrorism and propagated hate-speech.

The latest companies to pull their ads from the video platform include Pepsi, Walmart, Starbucks, FX, General Motors, Dish, JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson, and Lyft, Variety reports. They join AT&T, Verizon, GSK, and Enterprise Holdings, which pulled their ads earlier this week, citing the same concerns. The boycott began in the U.K., where a total of 250 advertisers have pulled ads from YouTube in the British market.

At the same time, the head of the Association Of National Advertisers (ANA) — a 107-year-old trade group that seeks to promote and protect the interests of roughly 1,000 companies who collectively spend over $250 billion in advertising — today urged Google to take steps to fix the issue. “ANA strongly believes that brand safety is of paramount importance to our members,” said CEO Bob Liodice, per Variety. “The current crisis is representative of the issues that ANA — and others — have raised with respect to fraud and risk, reduced transparency, sub-optimum measurement, and nebulous productivity.”

In response to the outcry, Google is rolling out several new safeguards for advertisers, and says it will take a tougher look at the kind of content that is allowed on YouTube. The company is making additional hires to prohibit future occurrences, said chief business officer Philipp Schindler in a company blog post, and will also employ new developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt told Fox Business Network in an interview yesterday that the company would weather the storm, and Wall Street analysts don’t expect that the issue will greatly impact the company’s overall financials, Variety reports.

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A creator with a long history on YouTube has returned to the world’s top video site. Kassem G (real name Kassem Gharaibeh), who gathered millions of subscribers and 439 million views on his personal channel thanks to web series like California On and Going Deep, has posted his first new video in seven months: a 52-minute live show set in a yard behind an old trailer.

The untitled show is a collaboration between Gharaibeh and the comedy network Jash. In its first (and thus far only) episode, Gharaibeh is joined by his brother Omar and his buddy Peter Gilroy. Together, they hang out, get high, answer questions from social media, and chat with guests like Amy Pham.

The new video is only the 11th one Gharaibeh has posted to his channel since July 2014, and fans have all sorts of theories to explain why he has returned. “Guess you’ve burnt through the Disney money,” cracked one Facebook commenter, referencing the big payday Gharaibeh received when the network he co-founded, Maker Studios, sold to the Mouse House back in 2014. “The truth is, I’m still very, very rich,” responded Gharaibeh, “and I think that’s the best time to come back and start making videos, when I don’t need to.”

There no word on Gharaibeh’s Twitter as to when he may deliver a second episode of his live show, but many of his fans are excited to see him again. “I’ve missed this man,” reads a YouTube comment that has received hundreds of likes. “That nose is still big as ever though.”

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Legendary Digital Networks is hoping to capitalize on one of its most beloved web series by bringing a new show to Alpha, its subscription video on-demand service. The show in question is called CelebriD&D, and it features a cast of TV, film, and digital media notables who will gather together to play Dungeons & Dragons.

The dungeon master for CelebriD&D is Matthew Mercer, who also hosts the popular web series Critical Role on the Legendary-owned Geek & Sundry channel. Mercer serves as the master of ceremonies for a role-playing five-person band that consists of his Critical Role co-stars Marisha Ray and Taliesin Jaffe, Dan Casey and Jessica Chobot of the Legendary-owned Nerdist network, and a guest. In the premiere episode, that guest is actor Joe Manganiello, who has a long history with Dungeons & Dragons.

CelebriD&D is a clear attempt to build on the success of Critical Role, which streams each week on Twitch and regularly reaches six-digit view counts 87 episodes into its run. While CelebriD&D may share a parent company and a theme with Critical Role, it more closely resembles another Dungeons & Dragons web series, Dan Harmon’s HarmonQuest. Both of those shows are built for on-demand viewership rather than streaming, and they’re both distributed through SVOD platforms: HarmonQuest through NBCUniversal’s Seeso and CelebriD&D through Legendary’s Alpha, which launched last year.

To watch the full, 45-minute premiere of CelebriD&D, you’ll need an Alpha account, which will run you at least $4.99 per month. Will the new series be able to translate Critical Role’s sizable audience into paying customers? We’ll find out as additional CelebriD&D episodes are released at a later date.

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Since we announced our epic contest and awards for Vine (complete with a promo video from the Epic Voice Guy himself, Jon Bailey) a laundry list of over 400 talented creators with recognizable names have entered the fray. That list includes King Bach, Brittany Furlan, Jake Paul, Logan Paul, Lele Pons, Rudy Mancuso, the National Basketball Association, Thomas Sanders, Turner Sports, Justin Bieber, Anwar Jibawi, Brandon Bowen, Brandon Calvillo, ChloeLMAO, David Dobrik, The Gabbie Show, Jérôme Jarre, Ry Doon, and many more. And it’s not too late to add your name to it, too.

Voting is already underway on Snakt, but if you want a crack at claiming some accolades from BEST VINES EVER head on over to BESTVINESEVER.co and fill out the appropriate creator submissions form. Then tell your fans to get on Snakt and start voting away. More key dates and details on BEST VINES EVER are below:

Key Dates:

• Tuesday, March 14 – Vine Creators Submissions Open For BEST VINES EVER
• Friday, March 17 – Fan Voting Begins on Snakt
• Wednesday, May 17 – Invite Only Honors and Party Time

How It Works:

Any former Vine creator can participate by filling out the entry form. Then all your Vines – complete with original captions – will be available on Snakt for fans to vote. Fans can vote within the Snakt mobile app with just one touch of a Vote button.

As always, thank you for helping us pour one out to Vine one last time. It’s going to be a blast.

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