YouTube has given a green light to Retro Tech, a docuseries from YouTube star Marques Brownlee, based on Brownlee’s Dope Tech series, from Vox Media Studios.

In the series, Brownlee, known by his channel name MKBHD, unboxes, reviews, and reveals the greatest vintage tech-driven products that defined pop culture and cha…

YouTube has named Alex Piper, Head of Unscripted, North & South America. He replaces Ben Relles, who has transitioned into a new position leading interactive programming at YouTube.

Piper will lead all efforts working with top creators to develop and produce unscripted programming across genres including, talk, action…

YouTube has canceled four shows, continuing with its going-forward strategy to reevaluate its original scripted programming strategy as it focuses on unscripted shows and specials.

Getting the ax were Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television, Champaign ILL, Sideswiped and Do You Want to See a Dead Body.

“Our goal is to…

Discovery and YouTube set a multi-year distribution deal extending Discovery programming into YouTube TV's live TV and on-demand subscription service.

The Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, and MotorTrend are all live on YouTube TV. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Net…

PewDiePie, the highly controversial but even higher trafficked YouTube star who had been the subject of a petition to ban him from the Google-owned platform, has jumped to a competing streaming arena, DLive.

The new home for PewDiePie, an independent content creator with just shy of 94 million YouTube subscribers, is a…

YouTube has tapped Ben Relles as Head of Innovation, a newly created post and division, as part of the platform’s recent shift in focus on unscripted series and specials. Relles is leaving his previous role as Head of Unscripted, a position he’s held since June 2015, to head up the new division. A replacement for…

EXCLUSIVE: YouTube and Lionsgate’s hit dance drama series Step Up: High Water has surged in viewership for its Season 2 premiere. The first episode of the sophomore season has drawn 11.5 million views in the seven days since its March 20 debut, according to YouTube. Compared with the first episode of Season 1, which…

After making its world premiere earlier this month at the SXSW Film Festival, The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story has set a limited theatrical run in Los Angeles and New York ahead of its April 3 debut on YouTube.

The Pilgrim Media Group and Lance Bass Productions' YouTube Original feature documentary will…

EXCLUSIVE: Turn alumna Heather Lind has been cast as the female lead opposite Chris Messina and RJ Cyler in Dark Cargo, YouTube Premium's drama pilot from Entertainment One and Canada's Counterfeit Pictures and Seven24 Films.

Written/exec produced by Adam and Max Reid and directed by Lodge Kerrigan, Dark Cargo is…

YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have been scrambling overnight and into Friday to remove horrific video footage recorded by one of the participants in the terrorist attacks that killed 49 people in New Zealand. A mounting backlash online suggests that many people don’t think the companies are doing nearly enough.

The mas…

Chad Hurley and Steven Shih Chen, two former PayPal colleagues who co-founded YouTube in 2005, were once so reviled in traditional-media circles that their company elicited a billion-dollar lawsuit by Viacom.

Today, they were named as recipients of Emmy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.

The entrepreneurs, who founded th…