Web Series

• T-Series Surpassed PewDiePie For 10 Minutes Following Routine YouTube Audit
• It’s Official: Smosh Has Been Acquired By Rhett & Link’s Mythical Entertainment

  In something of a full-circle moment, storied YouTube comedy brand Smosh has been purchased by another digital-native best friend-slash-creator duo after the channel was temporarily left in limbo following the abrupt -- and scandal-ridden -- shutdown of parent company Defy Media.

  
• Who Won The PewDiePie And T-Series YouTube Subscriber Battle? The Two Canadian Teens Behind FlareTV.

  Late last August, as a critical contest between two massive YouTube channels came into focus, a Canadian creator duo sensed an opportunity and seized it.

  
• Elon Musk Says He Filmed PewDiePie Collab As T-Series Subscriber Race Heats Up

  Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg, YouTube’s most-subscribed creator who has been in a protracted battle to fend off Indian production company T-Series to maintain that title, may have just recruited his biggest ally yet.

  
• Rhett & Link Launch Subscription Service, Will Bestow $1,000 Creative Grants To Select Members
• Vice To Cut 10% Of Workforce, Becoming Latest Digital Giant Hit By Layoffs
• Channel Frederator Network Signs Gamers Mithzan And Lindsay Elyse
• The Young Turks Adds ‘Pitchfork Economics’ To Newly-Launched Podcast Network
• YouTube Vet Colleen Ballinger Gives Birth To “Perfect” Baby Boy
• Team 10’s Justin Roberts Buys ‘Subscribe To PewDiePie’ Billboard In Times Square
• Markiplier Launches Last-Minute Pro-PewDiePie Stream, Supercharging His Subscriber Lead Over T-Series
• ABC Buys, Puts Into Development ‘East WillyB,’ Based On YouTube Web Series