YouTube

• YouTube Wants To Hook Its Users Up With Third-Party Video Subscriptions (Report)
• YouTube Kids’ Channel Cocomelon, Which Brings 3+ Billion Views Per Month, Expands Into Merch

  YouTube’s decision to strip personalized ads off every video that could attract young viewers has prompted one of its largest kids’ channels, Cocomelon, to finally expand into merch.

  
• YouTube Uses Trailer View Counts To Predict ‘Joker’ Will Steal Best Picture Oscar

  And the Oscar goes to Joker--or it will, according to YouTube views.

  
• Google Tells Websites–Including YouTube–To Remove “Particularly Disruptive” Ads On Short Videos

  Google has given websites—including subsidiary YouTube—until Aug. 5, 2020, to stop running three “particularly disruptive” kinds of ads on video content less than eight minutes long.

  
• Justin Bieber Docuseries Becomes YouTube’s Most-Viewed Original In One Week
• YouTube Sends Cease-And-Desist To Facial Recognition Company That Scrapes Social Media Images For Law Enforcement
• YouTube Shares Insights Into How It Will Deploy $100 Million Kids Content Fund
• YouTube Finally Reveals Exactly How Much It Makes From Ads: $34.4 Billion In Last 3 Years
• Diary Of A Web Series: Death Of The Web Series (And What Killed It)
• YouTube Emphasizes Its Ban On Birtherism, Deepfakes As 2020 Election Gets Underway
• YouTube Critic Carlos Maza Departs Vox Video Team To Launch Solo Channel
• This Is Why Researchers Studying Radicalization On YouTube Need To Be Logged In