YouTube

• YouTube Debuts First Shoppable AR Ad With Beauty Vlogger Roxette Arisa And MAC Cosmetics
• YouTube Testing Mega-Sized Thumbnails On Desktop Homepage, Much To Some Users’ Chagrin

  YouTube appears to be testing larger thumbnails on its desktop site, much to the chagrin of select users who balked at the changes as soon as they started rolling out yesterday.

  
• YouTube Is Beta-Testing The Ability For Creators To Publish Members-Only Videos

  YouTube is reportedly building on its existing Memberships feature -- which enables fans to pay support channels via $5 monthly subscriptions -- in a way that will allow creators and publishers to offer member-only videos.

  
• YouTube Mom Indicted On 30 Counts Of Child Abuse Declared Incompetent To Stand Trial

  Machelle Hobson, the former proprietor of a popular YouTube children's channel who was indicted on 30 counts of child molestation, child abuse, unlawful imprisonment, and child neglect in March, has been declared incompetent to stand trial by doctors on behalf of both the state and Hobson's defense.

  
• Half Of Teens Turn To YouTube For News, Preferring Influencers Over Traditional News Organizations (Study)
• YouTube Testing Program That Lets Certain Demonetized Channels File Immediate Appeals Via YouTube Videos
• Russian State Watchdog Tells YouTube To Stop Sending Push Notifications About Mass Protests
• YouTube Rolls Out ‘Super Chat’ Feature To 19 Additional Countries
• Diary Of A Web Series: 5 Things I Learned About Location Scouting
• YouTube Unequally Applies Policies, Giving Favor To Creators Who Bring In Big View Counts, Content Moderators Say
• Students Can Now Snag Three Free Months Of YouTube Premium And YouTube Music
• U.S. Navy Taps Kevin ‘VSauce2’ Lieber, Jake Koehler, William Osman For Inaugural Influencer Campaign