YouTube search results for celebrities hijacked by conspiracy theorists
YouTube’s algorithms have yet again fallen victim to manipulation by black hat conspiracy theorists. A far-right conspiracy group believing in “Qanon,” a theory centered around allegations that...
View ArticleYouTube to beef up HQ security, expand campus with 10,000 new jobs
YouTube is making moves in their San Bruno headquarters. According to plans filed with the city of San Bruno, the company hopes to expand their campus by adding 2.3 million square feet of new office...
View ArticleTanaCon founder to pivot into content production, launches OTT platform
Michael Weist, the 22-year-old infamous for the TanaCon disaster, is pivoting his company from live events to original content. Good Times Entertainment, the company that previous tours and conventions...
View ArticleViacom plans for AwesomenessTV layoffs, weeks after low-value acquisition
Viacom has plans to lay off nearly one hundred AwesomenessTV employees in an internal streamlining of its workforce, just weeks after it acquired the Gen-Z media company. “As we begin to integrate...
View ArticleNetflix testing ads-that-aren’t-really-ads during viewing sessions
Netflix is testing the waters with promotional videos inserted in between episodes and movies, and users are up-in-arms. The videos, which promote other pieces of Netflix original content, are inserted...
View ArticleYouTube Music inks partnership with American Music Awards
YouTube Music will be the first-ever presenting sponsor of Dick Clark Productions’ American Music Awards this year, the two companies announced Wednesday morning. The deal will promote YouTube Music...
View ArticleYouTube Premium to debut 50 original shows in 2019
YouTube announced that they plan to release 50 original shows during 2019, the platform’s EMEA head of originals, Luke Hyams, shared at the annual Edinburgh TV Festival today. Hyams, who previously...
View ArticleInstagram opens highly-coveted verification form to the public
Ah, the coveted blue check mark, distinguishing the most elite and influential Instagram users from the plebeians. The process for getting one has largely been a mystery to the general public – but for...
View ArticleSocial Blade launches Report Cards for YouTube
Social Blade is excited to launch our latest product offering: Report Cards! Report Cards for YouTube aim to help you show off your channel’s key metrics in an easy, succinct way. Generate a report to...
View ArticleAbbreviated Subscriber Counts on YouTube
As you likely have heard by now, as of September 2019, YouTube will be abbreviating subscriber counts everywhere except in a creators private studio dashboard. This will cause the subscriber number...
View ArticleThe Social Blade Decade
tl;dr Today’s news is our Chrome / Firefox extension has been updated to allow creators to watch their own live counts again! Internet & Social Media History And just like that another decade has...
View ArticleMade For Kids & COPPA – Initial Look At The YouTube Data
It’s been about two weeks since YouTube rolled out the COPPA restrictions across the platform where creators need to pick either on the channel or video level whether their content is made for kids or...
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