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• Snap Poaches YouTube’s Francis Roberts To Oversee Relations With Digital Creators
• The Ad Council Taps Meghan Trainor, Addison Rae, Molly Burke For Mental Health Awareness Month

  The Ad Council -- a nonprofit that brings together players from the worlds of media, tech, and marketing to address crucial social causes nationally -- has unveiled two initiatives for Mental Health Awareness Month.

  
• IAB Unveils Lineup For First-Ever Virtual NewFronts With TikTok, Snap, More

  The schedule is set for the first-ever virtual NewFronts, which are set to take place from June 22 to 26. Organizers say the event will seek to provide advertisers with a holistic view of the streaming universe, which is currently in the midst of dramatic change, given the surge in streaming precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic.

  
• YouTube Taps ASAPScience, Kati Morton, More For Sleeping Competition Series

  YouTube Originals is unveiling the latest series to join its growing slate of pandemic-appointed programming.Dubbed Sleeping With Friends, the reality competition series will drop for free on YouTube on May 20 to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Month.

  
• NBC Picks Up ‘A Little Late With Lilly Singh’ For Season Two, But Won’t Film Remotely
• YouTube’s FameBit Shutters Self-Service Influencer Marketing Platform To Prioritize In-House Matchmaking
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• Family Of Late YouTuber Corey La Barrie Launches GoFundMe For Memorial Expenses
• YouTube TV Adds ‘Court TV’ To Expanding Channel Lineup
• Rooster Teeth’s The Roost Podcast Network Signs ‘Zane And Heath: Unfiltered’ (Exclusive)
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 5/11/2020
• Jeffrey Katzenberg On Quibi’s 1.3 Million Active Users: “It’s Not Close To What We Wanted”