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• Discord’s Working On An Official YouTube Watch Party Feature
• YouTube Unveils Star Author Slate For First Season Of ‘BookTube Jr.’

  Each episode of BookTube Jr. will bring in a guest author to read their book out loud to a handful of kiddos. Authors will also talk about their creative process, and will “hear real kids’ questions about their books and inspire them to continue their exploration of the author off screen,” per a press release from YouTube.

  
• YouTube’s First Original Podcast Will Track “The Rise Of The Creator Economy”

  Called The Upload: The Rise of the Creator Economy, the series is co-created with National Public Media (the owner of NPR) and hosted by Brittany Luse, an award-winning journalist and culture critic who also cohosts the For Colored Nerds podcast.

  
• YouTube’s VP Of Engineering Just Answered Creators’ Recommendation Algorithm FAQs

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/13/2021
• YouTube’s Chief Business Officer Says Revenues Are Larger, Growing Faster Than Netflix
• YouTube Is Shuttering Discord’s Most Popular Music Bots
• TikTok Is The Most Downloaded, Most Watched App In The United States (Report)
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/06/2021
• Kelly Merryman Has Resigned As YouTube’s Longtime VP Of Content Partnerships
• YouTube Music Crushes 50 Million Subscribers
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 08/30/2021