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• ‘Critical Role’ Animated Special Extended From 22 To 88 Minutes After Fans Pledge $4.5 Million In 24 Hours
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Agrees To “Tea Session” With Shane Dawson Over ‘Trending’ Tab Concerns

  Despite his overwhelming dominance of the YouTube landscape with a slew of hit docuseries that have shattered the digital zeitgeist and garnered hundreds of millions of views, Shane Dawson has some concerns about the platform -- and he’s taking them straight to the top.

  
• Disney Poaches Former Netflix Exec To Lead Business Strategy For Its Upcoming Streaming Service

  When Disney’s in-house streaming service Disney+ launches in the fourth quarter of this year, it’ll instantly become one of Netflix’s top competitors.

  
• PrankvsPrank’s Jeana Smith Reveals She Has Been Vlogging Under A Pseudonym For Roughly A Decade

  All these years, Jeana Smith has been harboring a rather innocuous secret. And the beloved YouTube star, who was something of a pioneer in the couple pranking space -- and who headlined two massive channels with her now-ex-boyfriend Jesse Wellens -- is revealing her true identity in a new video that will also mark a new beginning of sorts.

  
• Rhett & Link’s Mythical Entertainment Paid Roughly $10 Million For Smosh (Report)
• Abrams Artists Expands Gaming Roster With Caesar Noriega, Natalie Casanova, Harris Heller
• In Less Than A Day, ‘Critical Role’ Fans Pledge $3.3+ Million To Bring Animated ‘Vox Machina’ Special To Life
• TV Exec Liz Gateley Joins Spotify As New Creative Development Head, Will Lead Expansion Into More Podcast Genres
• Steven Spielberg Wants To Bar Netflix From The Academy Awards
• BBC Studios Launches ‘TalentWorks’ Podcast, Featuring Sit-Downs With Joe Sugg, Elle Mills, More
• Michael Jackson Estate Turns To YouTube To Shift Focus From HBO’s ‘Leaving Neverland’
• Amazon Becomes Latest Video Platform To Pull Anti-Vaccination Content
• Marzia Bisgonin Says She “Feels Good” About Quitting YouTube, After Adjustment Period
• Famous Birthdays Reaches 20 Million Monthly Users, Launches Trivia Outpost
• Legendary Shutters ‘Alpha’ Streaming Service From Nerdist And Geek & Sundry, Moves Programming To Twitch
• YouTube TV Crosses 1 Million Subscriber Mark, Hulu With Live TV Nears 2 Million (Report)
• Susan Wojcicki Says YouTube’s Mass Disabling Of Comments On Videos Of Kids Is “A Trade-Off” For Young Creators
• YouTube Is Demonetizing Every Video About The ‘Momo Challenge,’ Which Isn’t Actually A Thing
• Animal Publisher The Dodo To Enter Children’s Market With ‘Dodo Kids’ Imprint
• Twitch To Launch ‘Stream Star’ Singing Competition Series With $20,000 Prize
• HBO CEO Richard Plepler, Who Forever Shifted TV Landscape, Abruptly Steps Down
• Gen Z Digital Hitmaker Brat Is Getting Into The Branded Content Business (Exclusive)
• YouTube Millionaires: NEFFEX Supplies YouTube’s Creator Community With A New Copyright-Free Song Each And Every Week
• YouTube Disables Comments On Tens Of Millions Of Videos Featuring Kids In Effort To Prevent Adpocalypse 2.0