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• YouTube Says Watch-Time On ‘Borderline’ Content By Non-Subscribers Has Dropped 70% This Year
• YouTube Officially Separates Ad Policies For Video Game And Real-World Violence

  Following up on CEO Susan Wojcicki’s promise to gaming creators last month, YouTube has rolled out a policy change that officially separates real-world violence and video game violence.

  
• YouTube Has Removed At Least 300 Donald Trump Campaign Ads Since 2016

  In October, YouTube (along with Facebook and Twitter) came under fire for refusing to remove a Donald Trump campaign ad that propagated a blatantly false conspiracy theory about Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden. The platform’s decision not to remove it was recently reaffirmed by CEO Susan Wojcicki, who told CBS’s 60 Minutes that the ad “right now would not be a violation of our policies.”

  
• MrBeast Just Got His Very Own Youtooz Figure. Here’s A Look At The Collectibles Company Cornering The YouTube Market.

  Pop culture fans all over the world have shelves lined with Funko Pop! figures -- cute, compact versions of seemingly every major character and celebrity out there, from Alien’s xenomorphs to Disney’s full roster to Mariah Carey. There are more than 8,000 different Pop!s, and last year, they raked in $686 million in sales for publicly-traded Funko. The vinyl figures have become universally popular across fandoms...but one notable space the company behind them hasn’t broached is the digital arena, where plenty of YouTubers have thousands, even millions of fans who’d be ready and willing to snap up their miniature likenesses.

  
• How To Make A ‘Heist’: Markiplier’s Interactive Special Is A Whole New Kind Of Content For YouTube
• YouTube Is Still Struggling To Label Videos From State-Controlled Outlets
• Bill Nye, Casey Neistat, iJustine Among Guests For Marques Brownlee’s YouTube Original ‘Retro Tech’
• Donut Media Drives In Creators MatPat, Linus Tech Tips, Gus Johnson, ChrisFix For Kia Challenge Series
• YouTube Launches Largest ‘Masthead’ Ad Format On TV Screens Globally
• MrBeast And Mark Rober’s #TeamTrees Fundraiser Is Getting A Discovery Channel Special
• YouTube Test Matching “Edgy” Creators And Advertisers Has Resulted In Hundreds Of Thousands In Ad Dollars
• U.K. Fashion Vlogger Kofi McCalla Teams With Label EJDER On Voter-Registering T-Shirts