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This week, YouTube announced that they have signed a new exclusive streaming deal with Canadian gaming creator Andre "Typical Gamer" Rebelo. He announced the news yesterday in a new video, which you can watch below, as he'll be holding a celebratory livestream today. The details of the new deal were not made available, but we're […]

The growing outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is being felt all across the pop culture landscape. Earlier today, we reported on how Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune have shifted to tapings without studio audiences over health concerns. As public health official continue to warn against attending events with large crowds, we're learning that shortform digital […]

Well, now we know what got Activision Blizzard to move from Twitch to YouTube so quickly with their broadcasts with a very lucrative deal. Last month the company abruptly moved over to the platform for all their esports streaming in what at the time was simply announced as a "multi-year strategic partnership". We now know […]

If you're still on the fence about subscribing, CBS All Access wants to remove any doubt by making one of the most highly-anticipated series premieres of 2020 available for free: Star Trek: Picard premiere episode "Remembrance" is now avaialble on the streaming service's YouTube channel – but only for a limited time (see below). "Star […]

StreamElements announced today that they are giving streamers from all platforms a new custom merch store option called SE.Merch. The shorthand is that those who decide to sign up for it will be given a storefront in which they can pick from an array of items to have their branding attached to and sold through […]

StreamElements has announced today that they have formed a new partnership with Wizards of the Coast to forge the Magic: The Gathering Creator Program. The program will be using StreamElements' SE.CAP system, which will allow them to manage and grow their influencer program across YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, Instagram, and Twitch. The program is now open […]

YouTube finally makes a bit of noise in the streaming game this month by signing three gamers to exclusive deals on their platform. The three gaming creators signed to new deals are LazarBeam, Muselk, and Valkyrae. The deals officially go into effect starting tomorrow, January 14th, 2020. To mark the occasion, Muselk will host a […]

This week, StreamElements along with Arsenal.gg released a report on the Q4 results of streaming media and the trends within that industry. You can read over the full report here, but here's a shorthand of the highlights. Facebook Gaming managed to grow on several fronts, due in part to their recent signings of permanent streamers. […]

Channel 4 has released six new comedy shorts, 'Blaps' just in time for Christmas, the largest amount ever released in one go. Available for free on All 4 and on YouTube, feature up and coming talents Sam Campbell, Fran Bushe, Tash Marshall and Jonny Pelham alongside Marek Larwood (Sorry I've Got No Head, Fast and […]

I was wondering what this weekend's long Doctor Who archival recap video would be. Without any new episodes this year, the BBC is trying to keep fans hyped up with retrospect videos and clips. This time, it's a half-hour compilation of the modern era companions' first moments. By "modern era", I mean the current version […]

Another streamer makes a play to call somewhere else beyond Twitch home as Lachlan announced he is moving to YouTube Gaming. The gamer has been on the rise the past couple years and scored big earlier this month during Fortnite's "black hole" event where they trolled their fans. Aside from signing with YouTube for a […]

Markiplier is no stranger to making interactive adventures, as he's made a couple for his own channel. Now he's making one specific for YouTube. Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach got together with the folks at Rooster Teeth to produce a brand new adventure, which will debut on October 30th, 2019. We have the trailer and brief description […]

This morning, Nike showed off a new set of Colorways coming to a few of their basketball signature lines, each of them coming with a geeky theme. The four lines have designs matching up with items for SpongeBob SquarePants, YouTube, and NASA. You can check out all four here, along with their descriptions and release […]

StreamElements, who work with all four of the major social streaming services we know, released new numbers that negate Ninja's move to Mixer. As we all know, Ninja made the move to the platform a few months ago, both for money and to find some freedom from Twitch's system. According to a new infographic released […]

And so it came to pass… for the past ten days, WEBTOON has run a serialized animated promotional short of Leeane "Mongie" Krecic's popular webcomic series Let's Play – with the tenth and final episode going live this past Wednesday evening. Let's Play is the story of Sam Young, a programmer at a tech company […]

Let's Play, the popular webcomic serial on WEBTOON has been adapted into an anime short this week. WEBTOON is the most-read comics publisher in the world here. They're the most-read digital publisher in the world, and they want to be much more. They want to be a multimedia empire and are slowly working away at that. One of […]

With Transformers Cyberverse – Chapter Two: Power of the Spark set to return to the Transformers YouTube channel for a second season beginning Saturday, September 7, both the Autobots and Decepticons continue to wield an incredible new force from the Allspark! Both sides continue powering up and mastering their mysterious new abilities by converting Earth vehicles […]

The first season of Cobra Kai, the TV spinoff from the Karate Kid films, will be available to stream for free with YouTube's shift to AVOD (ad-supported video on demand). The streaming service is hoping that the Karate Kid sequel series starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka will enough of a hook to sell the […]

One of the more prominent names in the Let's Play community who haven't abandoned YouTube yet is Craig Thompson, better known to his fans as Mini Ladd. With a career that's been over a decade long and a healthy gaming career, Thompson has decided to embark on a brand new venutre: touring. The Demonetized Tour […]

Confession Time: despite the plethora of summer viewing options, how I've spent most of my time in front of my television over the past few weeks has been watching YouTube and Twitch. I've especially been interested in the resurgance of … Minecraft videos?!? I'm as surprised as anyone, really. But what has gotten most of […]