YouTube

• YouTube Videos Featuring Young Children Get Triple The Views Of Videos That Don’t (Study)
• YouTube’s New Feature Requires Creators To Self-Rate How Ad-Appropriate Their Videos Are

  Nearly a year and a half after YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki revealed the platform was developing a self-rating monetization system, that system has rolled out to a number of creators, asking them to self-verify before uploading their videos as to whether those videos are safe for all ads, safe for limited ads, or are not suitable for ads at all.

  
• YouTube Will Exclusively Livestream Fuji Rock, Japan’s Largest Outdoor Music Festival

  Coachella isn’t the only music fest coming to YouTube this year. The platform has announced it will exclusively livestream the Fuji Rock Festival, Japan’s largest annual outdoor music event.

  
• Odell Beckham Jr. Forms Content Company To Launch His Own YouTube Channel

  Breakout NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. is the latest figure from the world of traditional celebrity to launch his own YouTube channel. Beckham and his business partner Ajay Sangha are partnering on the YouTube venture with Wheelhouse Entertainment, with whom he has formed a new content company called ITN Productions.

  
• YouTube Music Now Lets Users Switch Seamlessly Between A Song And Its Music Video
• Creators Say Competition Would Force YouTube To Be Better — But Right Now, There Are No Competitors
• Over 1,500 Creators And Industry Pros Flocked To Tubefilter’s 9th Annual VidCon Party
• Cracking The YouTube Algorithm In 2020
• Joey Graceffa’s ‘Escape The Night’ Spawns Actual Escape Room In L.A. This August
• Joe Sugg Lands Cameo In Animated Feature ‘Farmageddon’
• YouTube Updates Video Editing Tools, Allowing Creators To Automatically Release Manual Copyright Claims
• FTC Reportedly Considering Asking YouTubers To Turn Off Ads In The Name Of Child Privacy