YouTube

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

  Justin Bieber’s comeback single, "Yummy," may have failed to debut at No. 1 despite some rather questionable promotional tactics, but an accompanying YouTube docuseries titled Seasons is breaking viewership records.

  
• YouTube Sends Cease-And-Desist To Facial Recognition Company That Scrapes Social Media Images For Law Enforcement

  YouTube has sent a cease-and-desist letter to facial recognition app Clearview AI, which scrapes people’s photos from the internet and feeds them to law enforcement agencies.

  
• 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
• Congressional Committee Pens Letter Urging YouTube To Stop “Incentivizing Climate Misinformation”
• YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Try To Crack Down On Coronavirus Conspiracies