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YouTube Global Head of Original Content Susanne Daniels has resigned after over six years, during which she built the original content division of the company. Her last day will be March 1. YouTube Originals is coming off Q4 2021 as its most-watched quarter ever with 1.3 billion views. Daniels, a respected veteran TV…

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of nearly a dozen pre-teen and teenage social media influencers seeking millions of dollars in damages against their former manager, the mother of a noted YouTube figure, alleging sexual battery and failure to fully pay them for their contributions. The Los Angeles Superior Court…

The House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol has issued subpoenas to four major tech companies, including Alphabet, Meta, Reddit and Twitter, for documents related to the spread of election disinformation on social media and the use of platforms by violent extremists. Bennie Thompson, the…

UPDATED, 10:12 AM: Fourteen months after “Baby Shark Dance” swam past “Despacito” to become the most-viewed video in YouTube history, the clip has hit another milestone. The song that sticks to parents’ brains like epoxy today became the first clip to hit 10 billion views on the video-sharing platform. It has been the…

Some 50 years after its debut, Joni Mitchell’s melancholy song River finally has its own video. River first appeared on Mitchell's 1971 album, Blue.  "River expresses regret at the end of a relationship… but it's also about being lonely at Christmas time," Mitchell says in a statement at the end of the animated…

Roku and Google have resolved their longtime differences over the YouTube and YouTube TV apps, reaching a multi-year carriage extension a day before a key deadline. The two tech companies have waged a war of words throughout much of 2021, but reached an agreement ahead of Thursday’s expiration of the YouTube…

Google parent Alphabet rode continued momentum in digital advertising in the third quarter, reporting total revenue of $53.6 billion in the quarter, not counting traffic acquisition costs. Earnings per share came in at $27.99, far ahead of analysts’ consensus expectation of $23.50 and up 71% from a year ago. The…

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) opened a Senate hearing on Tuesday with a warning to the three witnesses: “Being different from Facebook is not a defense.” As the Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant has faced a daily slew of new revelations from a whistleblower’s release of documents and emails to media outlets, lawmakers…

Roku says its impasse with Google over carriage of its YouTube and YouTube TV apps has remained despite six months of efforts to resolve it. The distribution deal for YouTube’s main app is set to expire on December 9. YouTube TV, the pay-TV service with more than 3 million customers, already reached the end of the…

Organizers MRC Live and Alternative Tubefilter unveiled nominees for the 2021 YouTube Streamy Awards on Wednesday. The list of noms range from up-and-comers to global stars including Bill Gates, Lil Nas X, Nick Jonas, Hailey Bieber, Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith. Winners will be announced in December during a…

EXCLUSIVE: Smosh, the longtime supplier of YouTube comedy videos, has hired its first CEO. Daniel Tibbets, a media veteran who most recently served as general manager for Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network, will guide the company as it looks to broaden its reach. Smosh, which has 45 million subscribers and 10 billion…

2ND UPDATE with Katty Kay resignation, 9:30 AM: Ozy Media’s star journalist, former BBC anchor Katty Kay, resigned from the embattled news site Wednesday, calling recent allegations surfaced in a New York Times story “serious and deeply troubling.” "I had recently joined the company after my long career at the BBC…