Twin brothers who have a wildly popular series of prank videos on TikTok and YouTube have been charged with false imprisonment and “swatting,” the Orange County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
Alan and Alex Stokes, both 23 of Irvine, CA, each has been charged with one felony count of false imprisonment…
Facebook said Friday it will launching a new feature in partnership with top labels to bring official music videos to U.S. users, zeroing in on a space dominated by YouTube.
Partners including Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, Merlin, BMG, Kobalt and indie labels and publishers will contribute content to a…
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As YouTube advertising firmed nearly 6% to $3.8 billion in the second quarter, Wall Street also tried to get sense of YouTube TV, which isn’t broken out in the earnings reports of Google parent Alphabet.
When one analyst asked CEO Sundar Pichai if YouTube TV would…
YouTube said Thursday that it will exclusively broadcast the 10th annual Streamy Awards on December 13. This year’s ceremony will also line up with YouTube’s 15th anniversary.
The awards, produced in collaboration with Tubefilter, dick clark productions and YouTube, seek to honor online video creators across…
Are you ready to test the science of magic in the Harry Potter films? YouTube Originals has ordered a second season of Could You Survive the Movies? — its docuseries that picked up a Daytime Emmy over the weekend.
Hosted by YouTuber Jake Roper, the series from Ample Entertainment explores the magic and science behind…
Climate change has been shoved out of the news spotlight by a few other ongoing crises in recent months, but it remains a key issue. Now a new digital series is set to use humor to help speed the topic’s spread.
The Office alum Rainn Wilson is set to host An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change, which premieres today…
Robert Downey Jr. and will.i.am lifted the lid on their YouTube series The Age of A.I. and how machine learning is going to change the world, with the latter saying the next five years are going to be "bumpy as f*ck.”
The Iron Man star and the Black Eyed Peas founder, along with exec producer Susan Downey and Nadine…
Brie Larson has won an Oscar and played one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most powerful superheroes in Captain Marvel. There is only one more thing left for her to do: start a YouTube channel.
Larson launched her YouTube channel with her first video where she is figuring out how to record, sharing photos of her…
Streaming sensation and World of Warcraft pro Byron “Reckful” Bernstein died on Thursday at age 31. His death was confirmed by his girlfriend, who said he committed suicide.
Reckful had almost a million Twitch followers and amassed more than 250,000 YouTube subscribers. He was known for broaching sensitive subjects in…
YouTuber Liza Koshy has taken to Instagram to apologize after a video of her using a mock Asian accent resurfaced. Another clip included footage of Koshy pretending to speak Japanese.
“What I once thought of as ‘innocent jokes,'” wrote Koshy, “were actually tainted with implicit bias, and what might have been intended…
K-pop continues its viewer domination on YouTube. Blackpink’s new single, “How You Like That“, has now shattered YouTube’s 24-hour viewing record, outperforming second place BTS by more than 7 million views. It tallied more than 82 million views during the 24-hour span of the video’s release.
YouTube views in the…
Jenna Marbles, who became one of the most popular YouTube vloggers and claimed more than 3 billion views and 20 million subscribers in her decade-long career, is quitting her channel.In an 11-minute video posted to her channel, Marbles apologized for past instances of slut-shaming and for doing a blackface video…
