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• YouTube Integrating New Music Charts As Live Playlists In ‘YouTube Music’ App
• Netflix Testing New Feature That Asks Users If They Want To Instant-Replay Popular Scenes

  Netflix is testing a new feature that, after certain scenes, pops up a box offering to let users ‘Watch That Scene Again.' Users who click the box are zoomed back to the beginning of the section for an instant replay.

  
• MrBeast’s $100,000 Competition Pitting Top Creators Against One Another Ends In Four-Way Draw

  YouTube star Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, who has amassed 12.5 million subscribers thanks to social experiments and stunts that often involve large sums of cash, just hosted a competition pitting some of the platform’s buzziest popular stars against one another for a $100,000 prize.

  
• YouTube’s Own ‘Rewind 2018’ Becomes Most-Disliked Video Ever In Less Than A Week

  YouTube Rewind 2018 has become the site’s most-disliked video of all time -- a feat it achieved in less than a week. After premiering last Friday, Rewind 2018 has amassed 10.1 million dislikes, according to the analytics tool DBase, unseating the platform’s previous most-disliked video -- Justin Bieber’s music video for "Baby" (which counted 9.9 million dislikes at press time).

  
• Creators Going Pro: Being On YouTube Helped Musician Tyler Ward Hit All His Career Goals — Here’s What He’s Doing Next
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 12/9/2018
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai Probed Over YouTube’s Conspiracy Problem At Congressional Hearing
• The Young Turks Adds ‘Pitchfork Economics’ To Newly-Launched Podcast Network
• These Are The Brands That Had The Most-Subscribed YouTube Channels In 2018 (Study)
• Thrillist Unveils Four Shows For Foodies In First-Ever Content Slate
• David Dobrik Wanted To Stop Vlogging After 420th Video, But Forged On After Rejected Netflix Show
• Instagram Is Testing ‘Creator Accounts’ That Are Specifically Tailored For Influencers
• PewDiePie Receives Backlash After Recommending Anti-Semitic, White Supremacist YouTube Channel
• TopBuzz Creator Spotlight: This Digital Gossip Maven Is Building A Business By Spilling Celebrity Tea
• YouTube Vet Colleen Ballinger Gives Birth To “Perfect” Baby Boy
• Netflix’s Original Programming Viewership Climbs, But 63% Of Streams Still Come From Licensed Content (Study)
• After Reorg, Fullscreen Signs 4 Creators To Fully-Managed Talent Unit (Exclusive)
• Gaming Just Had Its Biggest Year On YouTube — Here’s What Comes Next
• CollegeHumor Launches Native iOS, Android Apps For ‘Dropout’ Subscription Service
• Hulu Becomes First Streaming Service To Accept Venmo Payments
• VidCon Names Former Nickelodeon Exec Sarah Tortoreti Its First VP Of Marketing
• ‘YouTube Rewind 2018’ Becomes Second Most-Disliked Video In YouTube History
• Netflix Orders First African Original, Spy Dramedy ‘Queen Sono’
• Here’s Why Netflix’s Mobile Apps Pulled In Record Revenues Last Month