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• Rooster Teeth’s Podcast Network, The Roost, Unveils Slate Of 3 Scripted Series
• Guns N’ Roses Lays Claim To Only Music Videos From The ’90s — And Now The ’80s — With 1 Billion Views

  The eighties are still booming on YouTube. Rock band Guns N’ Roses just made platform history with its black-and-white music video for "Sweet Child O' Mine," which is the first music video from the ‘80s to cross the billion-views threshold, Billboard reports.

  
• ‘Bon Appétit’ Magazine Is Making Cover Stars Out Of Its Beloved YouTube Crew

  Bon Appétit, the 63-year-old, Condé Nast-owned food magazine, has turned several of its editorial staffers into veritable YouTube stars, who regularly appear on its channel (4.6 million subscribers) in highly-viewed series. 

  
• Shane Dawson Launches Online Store With Jeffree Star’s Killer Merch, All Items Promptly Sell Out

  Amid the rollout of their second docuseries, of which three episodes are available to date, Dawson has launched a new online merch storefront with Killer Merch, a production and distribution firm in which Star is a co-owner, and which supplies merch services for other massive stars like Kevin Hart, Lil Dicky, and the Tiny Meat Gang.

  
• YouTube Pacts With MerchBar To Help ‘Official Artist Channels’ Drive Merch, Vinyl Sales
• Viral Video Upstart ‘Doing Things Media’ Appoints Former Group Nine Exec President, Taps Starry Advisers
• Pocket.watch Greenlights Shows With The Onyx Family, Eh Bee Family, Expands Hulu Pact
• YouTube Drops Trailer For Latest Learning-Focused Original, Starring VSauce3’s Jake Roper
• Sardonic Twitter Account ‘Dril’ Nabs Weekly Web Series On Adult Swim
• Grace Helbig To Sit Down With Powerful Women In Studio71 Facebook Series
• Moonbug Inks Distribution Deal For ‘Little Baby Bum’ Spin-Off in The Nordics
• As Halloween Looms, Sam And Colby Unveil Four-Part U.K. Series, ‘The Graveyard’