News

• Facebook Opens Instagram’s AR Filter-Building Tool, ‘Spark,’ To Everyone
• 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.

  
• Social Good Creators: Ashley Villa Is Changing The World For Female Entrepreneurs

  Ashley Villa wants women to have it all. Unlike our previous featurees for this column, Villa isn’t a YouTube creator. But as cofounder and CEO of agency RARE GLOBAL, where she’s also a talent manager and attorney, she spends 24/7 thinking about and working on behalf of digital creators across industries.

  
• Half Of Teens Turn To YouTube For News, Preferring Influencers Over Traditional News Organizations (Study)

  A new study has confirmed the irrefutable power of YouTube. The poll, conducted by survey software company Survey Monkey and child education nonprofit Common Sense, found that teens today are turning away from traditional news organizations to find out about current events from online influencers on social media and video platforms like YouTube.

  
• YouTube Testing Program That Lets Certain Demonetized Channels File Immediate Appeals Via YouTube Videos
• Apple TV+ Gives First Glimpse At Billion-Dollar Originals Slate With ‘Morning Show’ Teaser, Starring Jennifer Aniston
• Snap Unveils Third Generation Of $380 Spectacles, With Two Cameras To Create AR Effects
• 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
• U.K. Vlogger Marina Joyce Found Safe By Police After Going Missing For 10 Days
• New Study Demonstrates YouTube’s Role In Far-Right Radicalization, Spread Of Conspiracies In Brazil
• Brat Branches Into Audio Business Alongside Podcasting Platform ART19
• Complex Hires Key Execs On Production, Marketing, And Branded Content Teams
• Twitch CEO Apologizes To Ninja After His Defunct Account Was Used To Promote A Porn Stream
• Vice Appoints Former Munchies Exec Cliff Gulibert To Oversee All Digital Video Production
• UTA Signs 21-Year-Old Twitch Newcomer BrookeAB
• YouTube Unequally Applies Policies, Giving Favor To Creators Who Bring In Big View Counts, Content Moderators Say
• In Wake Of Brooke Houts Incident, PETA Asks Platforms To Enact Zero-Tolerance Animal Abuse Policy
• Ninja’s New Cross-Platform Video Strategy Since Leaving Twitch For Mixer
• Students Can Now Snag Three Free Months Of YouTube Premium And YouTube Music
• Insights: With Ninja’s Nifty Mixer Move, Live Streaming Leaps To Its Next Era
• Tech Reviewer Marques Brownlee Drops ‘Waveform’ Podcast Alongside Studio71
• Instagram Is Rolling Out The Ability To Natively Pre-Schedule Grid Posts, IGTV Videos