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• The Root’s Danielle Belton Named Editor-In-Chief Of BuzzFeed-Owned ‘HuffPost’
• YouTube Is The First Digital Platform To Receive Brand Safety Certification From Media Rating Council

  The audit covered YouTube ads sold through Google Ads as well as YouTube’s Display, Video 360, and YouTube Reserve ads.

  
• YouTube Test Will Auto-Detect Products Featured In Videos, And Suggest Content Accordingly

  YouTube is experimenting with a new tool that will auto-detect products that appear in users’ video, and then provide pertinent links to related content below.

  
• YouTube Launches Shorts Beta In U.S., Says It’s “Actively Working On” Monetization

  Since introducing Shorts last year, product lead Todd Sherman notes that the number of Indian channels using YouTube's creation tools has more than tripled since December, and that the YouTube Shorts player has now surpassed 6.5 billion daily views globally.

  
• Instagram Announces New Teen Safety Features In DMs Amid Gradual Move To Encryption
• YouTube To Exclusively Broadcast 21 Major League Baseball Games This Season
• Facebook Adds Creator Monetization For Shortform Content, Stories
• Netflix Is Warning Users To Stop Sharing Their Accounts
• Creators Can Now Use YouTube’s Merch Shelves To Sell Digital Products
• BuzzFeed Studios Signs With CAA, Looks To Develop Projects For TV, Film, Streaming
• Facebook Gaming Finally Reveals Eligibility Criteria To Achieve ‘Partner’ Status
• YouTube Adds Nielsen Measurement For Ad Campaigns, Citing Growing Connected-TV Audience