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• Philanthropic YouTube Star Lilly Singh To Headline Mashable’s 9th Annual ‘Social Good Summit’
• YouTube Millionaires: Multilingual Travel Vloggers ‘Damon And Jo’ Want Their Subscribers To “Shut Up And Go”

  Travel-savvy millennials Damon Dominique and Jo Franco share a love of language that makes their vlog channel Damon And Jo accessible to viewers all around the world. And obviously, people from all around the world are watching, because the BFF pair recently became YouTube Millionaires.

  
• Netflix Eyeing New Theatrical Distribution Strategy For Upcoming Films By Alfonso Cuaron, Paul Greengrass

  Netflix will release veteran filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron’s forthcoming Roma in theaters as part of a new hybrid distribution agreement. While specific details of its plan have not been disclosed, speculation that the streaming giant would relax its simultaneous-digital-and-theater-release rule began circulating yesterday.

  
• Stareable Fest 2018 Marks The Era Of The Producer

  Perhaps the only thing that is clear about the state of the television industry is that change is coming to how Hollywood creates content.

  
• Amazon Taps Longtime ESPN Exec Marie Donoghue To Oversee Sports Programming
• ‘Twilight’ Alum Ashley Greene, YouTuber Todrick Hall To Star In Second Season Of YouTube Premium’s ‘Step Up: High Water’
• Amazon Readying Free Streaming Service Exclusively For Fire TV Owners (Report)
• Facebook Watch Now Available Globally, Offering Expanded Creator Tools To More Countries
• KSI Wants To Push Logan Paul Rematch From February To May, Envisions Setting Outside U.S.
• Creators Going Pro: How Logdotzip Turned A Passion For Gaming At 14 Into A 10-Person Business A Decade Later
• You Can Now Apply To Be Verified On Instagram Via Form Within App
• Nickelodeon Partners With VRV To Launch Streaming Channel For Nostalgic ’90s Shows Like ‘Doug’, ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark?’
• YouTuber Jack Douglass Is Turning His ‘Yesterday I Asked You’ Series Into A Game Show On Twitch
• Snap, Viacom Digital Studios, YouTube’s FameBit To Headline Inaugural NewFronts West
• Netflix Allegedly Bars ‘The Innocents’ Cast From Using The Term ‘Binge-Watching’
• New Media Org ‘Progress News Network’ To Launch Daily Facebook First Newscast
• BTS Surpasses Taylor Swift To Nab Biggest 24-Hour YouTube Video Debut Of All Time
• Shots Studios Unveils YouTube Channel Solely Dedicated To Vertical Videos
• Insights: Amazon’s Brand Ambassadors Swear Everything’s A-OK
• The Young Turks Network Lays Off Staff, Retires Entertainment Shows
• BuzzFeed News Is Asking Readers For Donations — But Has No Immediate Paywall Plans
• YouTube Rolls Out New Dashboard To Tell Users Exactly How Much Time They Spend Watching Content
• YouTube Beauty Mogul Jeffree Star Breezes Past 10 Million Subscribers In Roughly 3 Years
• BuzzFeed’s Hit Interactive Dating Show ‘RelationShipped’ Returns To Facebook Watch (Trailer)