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Popular YouTube star and one of the platform's biggest and most successful creators, PewDiePie has once again found himself in hot water over racial insensitivity and controversial action. The Let's Play YouTuber, real name Felix Kjellberg, casually dropped the N-bomb in a stream of game Battlegrounds. This led to a huge public outcry, as the YouTuber is[...]

John Cena continues his long, slow, (really, it's very slow) climb to the top of the Hollywood mountain with a new role in an animated series from the producers of Robot Chicken. According to a report on WWE.com, Cena will join Thor star Kat Dennings to voice characters in a space buddy comedy to air exclusively[...]

Promising a diverse mix of "unapologetic" scripted and unscripted programming, Stage 13 will debut that month via YouTube, Facebook and at Stage13.com with a monthly rollout of series premieres Two Sentence Horror Stories will also premiere that month on Verizon's go90 platform, joining original horror-comedy series Snatchers. For Diana Mogollón, Stage 13's senior vice-president and general manager,[...]

Miyagi (Pat Morita) uttered the famous "wax on, wax off," line and Kreese (Martin Kove) ordered Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) to sweep Daniel LaRusso's (Ralph Macchio) leg, YouTube Red is reuniting Macchio and Zabka for Cobra Kai, a 10-episode half-hour comedic series set to premiere on YouTube Red in 2018. Here's how YouTube Red describes the[...]

Only days after announcing the return of Total Request Live (TRL) to its airwaves as part of an overall initiative to maintain and diversify its summer viewing audience, MTV announced that YouTube star and media personality Liza Koshy (Freakish) has signed a first-look deal with the network Koshy's contract would include her hosting the revival[...]

Back in April of this year, YouTube collectively gave millions of content creators a collective heart attack at once by running no ads on their service for almost a solid month This meant that some creators who had monetized their videos saw no share of the advertising income that had allowed them to profit from[...]

Internet and TV personality Stevie Kathleen Ryan, best known for her YouTube series Little Loca and her VH1 comedy series Stevie TV, was found dead Saturday at her home in what the L.A County Coroner's Office is ruling a suicide by hanging She was 33 years old. Ryan first made her mark on the pop culture[...]

YouTube Red continues adding to their original programming slate with the announcement that Impulse, directed and executive-produced by Doug Liman (Swingers, Edge of Tomorrow) from author Steven Gould's Jumper series, has received a series order for a 2018 premiere. By green-lighting the sci-fi thriller/drama, YouTube Red is adding to a lineup that also includes recently-announced sci-fi[...]

Step Up: High Water has tapped Ne-Yo (The Wiz, World of Dance), Naya Rivera (Glee) and Faizon Love (Elf) to lead YouTube Red's new original drama series based on the popular film franchise The series, created and executive produced by showrunner Holly Sorenson (Recovery Road), is YouTube Red's's first attempt at a big-budget drama series[...]

As the competition for original programming content between the networks, cable channels and streaming servcies grows, YouTube Red is attempting to boost its standing by ordering four new shows to full series, including the eSports comedy Good Game from Dan Harmon's Starburns Industries (set for an August 30 premiere); and action-drama Lifeline, produced by Dwayne[...]

The totalitarian future of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 continues to take shape as HBO Films announced the casting of YouTube personality Lilly Singh in their film adaptation of the iconic novel Under the direction of Ramin Bahrani and from a script by Bahrani and Amir Naderi, the adaptation also stars Michael B Jordan (Fruitvale Station), Michael Shannon[...]

We briefly touched on the topic in yesterday's post about YouTube's demonetization problems and the new rules they've set up for running ads on their website, but checking around the web today, we're seeing that there are still groups who are going through issues of receiving income to fuel their jobs One of those groups: pro-wrestling[...]

After a month of having their livelihoods screwed with, a lot of Let's Players and other gaming content creators are looking for answers from YouTube as to why they had to lose ad revenue for nearly two months Now after the "ad-pocalypse" has some and gone, YouTube have responded in both a non-direct and confusing[...]

With the popularity of superhero and comic movies and TV shows, this is just getting more and more common and often, but it can be a tough question to answer. Partly for the same reasons that many who have struggled to start getting into comic books might suggest: there's just so much out there, how can[...]

Activision and Treyarch's 2017 addition to the massive Call of Duty franchise has barely managed to get itself officially announced and already Youtubers are claiming they won't be able to make any money off the game Granted, most of this has to do with Youtube's own subscription and age restriction changes, but it has hit the COD community[...]

Streamers and Youtubers Criken, Vaatividya, and Bed (currently going by BedBanna) have been running an ongoing series of, well, essentially in-character streams as they play through Dark Souls III The series follows Criken's character Edwad Emberpants as he fails his way through the story of Dark Souls III and both of it's subsequent DLCs The Ashes of Ariandel and The[...]

  I'm just going to leave this one here for you, with very, very little commentary. Game Informer unearthed a video of Mass Effect's Commander

Yang apparently hopes this will 'push people to challenge their assumptions about sex, kink, and their own bodies'. Of course, when the majority of people know his games from the likes of straight YouTube gamers who dismiss his games as simply 'messed up' or vomit inducing, it is plain to see that many perhaps will not[...]

Were you hoping to see a stream or a series on Persona 5? Chances are you might be seeing many of those videos come down or not even happen as Atlus issued a warning today to all YouTube and Twitch streamers who may potentially play the game If your content gives away any of the[...]

Continuing our coverage of #YouTubeAgeGate, this time on the advertisement side of things AT&T announced today that they are pulling advertisements from YouTube This comes as a wave of advertisers have started boycotting YouTube because their ads are being placed next to hate speech videos, and the company took a step to cutting ad ties[...]

Ever since PAX East ended, Twitter has blown up with the hashtag #YouTubeAgeGate You may not be entirely aware of what it is, but in a few short days, it has become one of the most talked about issues that looks to be the next step for YouTube regulating content It has implications of doing[...]

Did anyone truly think Nintendo would stop being sticklers on YouTube once the Switch was released and people were having fun with it in videos? For over three years now, Nintendo has been one of the most aggressive content hunters on YouTube, demanding that gamers and Let's Players work with them and forfeit a portion[...]

The praises of millions of YouTube viewers have slightly been answered as it was announced yesterday that Google will finally be ending the tyranny on our streaming souls that is the unskippable 30-second ads But don't get excited just yet, the change doesn't come until 2018. In a statement that was originally given to Campaign (and later[...]

The corporate backlash against PewDiePie keeps growing today as the entertainer has now received punishment from YouTube, the very website he makes a living from Earlier today we reported that Disney-owned Maker Studios severed ties with Felix Kjellberg after anti-Semitic videos on his channel caused a great deal of controversy Now YouTube, the distributor of his[...]

So this story has been running for a few weeks, and it looks like it is going to come to some kind of conclusion very soon. In case you hadn't heard Felix 'Pewdiepie' Kjellberg, the biggest YouTuber in the world, has been vowing to delete his channel if he reach 50 million subscribers This was started in[...]

Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUHi-vlACJIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Satoru Iwata: CEO, Game Developer, Gamer – Did You Know Gaming? Feat Furst (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUHi-vlACJI) Did You Know Gaming?do great work, downsizing important aspects of popular games and platforms, packaging them into nice videos to act as little history lessons about the industry. Their latest one is[...]

YouTubers or internet personalities saying something ill advised is nothing new It just somewhat happens since these people came out of their bedrooms and not through PR or media trained avenues most of the time. Felix "Pewdiepie" Kjellberg has found himself the center of attention though after making a joke about being part of ISIS[...]

Brands reaching out to YouTube stars is nothing new The influencers have a huge and hungry audience who really do listen to what the personalities say However, it becomes a problem when the work of these brands are paid for and not fully disclosed. That is what has gotten Warner Brothers and other YouTube stars, including[...]

(Well, his second, more remorseful one at least.) In a video the YouTuber set out an apology for fans and users of the site, saying that he was sorry that his role as the company's leader wasn't clear He also attempted point out that the site said it should only be for 18 and older[...]

YouTube as an idea has changed the game, certainly in our field as a pop culture website, but also in just about every industry with an online presence It's a ludicrously powerful tool with a huge influence across the entire world, and viewerships that dwarf those of most television shows Many see it as the[...]