Geoff Weiss

• Hannah Stocking To Front Shots Studios’ New YouTube Music Brand, ‘Mindie’
• Dez Machado, The Stokes Twins, Ben Azelart Named Featured Creators For 11th VidCon

  VidCon will return to Anaheim for its 11th annual gathering next summer from June 17 to 20, the Viacom-owned convention announced today. 

  
• Nerd City Calls On YouTube For More Demonetization Transparency Amid New Study About LGBTQ+ Video Titles

  Nerd City, a YouTube commentary channel with 700,000 subscribers that looks into online trends and crucial goings-on across the platform -- and which previously made waves with an investigation into whether Jake Paul hawking merch to minors crosses legal boundaries and delved into YouTube's alleged secret rating system -- has conducted yet another study into a radioactive theory: that using LGBTQ+-related words in videos titles conclusively causes demonetization.

  
• Vevo Looking To Supercharge OTT Distribution

  Vevo sees itself as the largest ad-based business in today’s music industry, the company’s SVP of sales, Jesse Judelman, told Tubefilter during an interview at the second annual NewFronts West, which took place earlier this month in Los Angeles.

  
• Twitch, In Bid To Lock Down Top Talent, Inks Exclusive Streaming Deal With ‘NickMercs’
• Gaming Talent Management Firm ‘Loaded’ Signs Jordan Fisher, Its First Traditional Star
• Influencer Sinead Burke Unveils Series With Just-Launched Podcast Network Lemonada
• Facebook, Like Instagram, To Test Hiding ‘Likes’, Reactions, And Video Viewcounts
• Kids’ Content Upstart Moonbug Names Former ProSiebenSat.1 Exec Head Of EMEA
• Musician And Patreon Investor Serj Tankian Launches Page On Platform
• TikTok Says It No Longer Uses Guidelines That Could Censor Content Criticizing Chinese Government
• Podcast Platform Art19 Touts New Listener-Targeted Ad Innovations