YouTube

• YouTube Revamps Verification System With New Look And Eligibility Requirements
• YouTube, Facebook, Instagram Are Epicenters For Steroid Sales — And So Are Their Recommendation Algorithms (Study)

  Shady distributors are using social platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to hawk their appearance and performance enhancing drugs (APEDs) -- and those platforms’ recommendation algorithms are helping their sales, according a new study from nonprofit internet safety org Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA).

  
• Creators Going Pro: Meet Brittany Null, The YouTube Supermom Whose Channel Is A 10-Year Chronicle Of Her Life

  For the past decade, Brittany Null has shared everything with her viewers. She originally started her YouTube channel, Britt’s Space, as a hobby, something she used as a kind of digital diary. Her earliest videos are near-daily detailings of the everyday goings-on in her life. They’re frank, lo-fi chronicles of short road trips, her relationships with her then-spouse and family members, and the occasional skit and storytime. And while lots has changed in the years she’s been a creator, including the addition of three little ones to her family and a gathering of 393K subscribers, there’s one thing that hasn’t: the core of her content.

  
• Former SourceFed Hosts ‘The Valleyfolk’ Win First Season Of NBC’s ‘Bring The Funny’

  SourceFed’s spiritual successor, a foursome of the axed news/commentary channel’s original hosts now calling themselves The Valleyfolk, has won the first season of NBC’s comedy competition Bring the Funny.

  
• Google Is Adding The Ability To Search For ‘Key Moments’ Within YouTube Videos
• YouTube Is Bringing Its Most Prominent Ad Product, The Masthead, To Smart TV Screens
• YouTube Testing New ‘Profile Cards’ That Showcase Channel-Specific Comment History
• YouTube To Shutter Its TV-Optimized ‘Leanback’ Feature On Oct. 2
• YouTube’s Abbreviated Subscriber Counts Are Here
• Lilly Singh’s Talk Show To Welcome Mindy Kaling, Rainn Wilson, Chelsea Handler This Week
• YouTube Will No Longer Count Ads Toward Music Charts, 24-Hour Music Video Debuts
• Apple’s Big YouTube Stream Was Just Part Of Its Swelling Social Video Impact