YouTube is rolling out changes to its verification program for creators, making it tougher for growing channels to earn a checkmark beside their name and removing verification badges from people who don’t meet the heightened criteria.

Creators describe it as "kind of detrimental."

The video giant’s recent travails underscore a basic question: How “neutral” should social-media platforms try to be?

The Pew Research Center suggests children's content is among the most popular on YouTube, even though the company discourages children under 13 from using its platform.

YouTube's creator backlash is occurring as TikTok emerges as a creator favorite.

YouTuber Grant Thompson died in a paragliding accident in Utah Monday night.

Moderators say YouTube overrode them when high-profile creators went too far.

Making it easier for creators to earn money

YouTube views can translate into serious dollars, but if you're a student athlete, you may want to think twice about trying to earn money on the platform. A football player for the University of Central Florida has lost his place in the team, and hence his scholarship, due to his YouTube channel. UCF kicker Donald De La Haye runs "Deestroying," which has over 90,000 subscribers and has amassed 5 million views, thus far. It's not the channel itself that cost him his scholarship, though -- it's the fact that he has athletics-related videos on a monetized account.

Minecraft and gaming creators were allegedly affected.

'Forcing animals to fight is not allowed on YouTube,' the site's guidelines state

YouTubers can get their entire channels demonetized, losing out on their livelihoods, only for YouTube to restore their channels without explanation.

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YouTube is going to make it harder for small video makers to make money. The world’s largest video site will kick thousands of people out of its ad revenue-sharing program, and will make it much harder for new ones to get into the program. The change, which goes into effect today, is one of YouTube’s responses to a year of criticism it has generated for a series of scandals involving questionable and offensive content that has appeared on the site.

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A new study finds that the odds of striking it rich on the video service, or even making a modest living, are tiny.

The video giant isn’t doing enough to combat its burnout crisis

YouTube’s creators do some soul-searching.

Youtube is littered with sketchy mass-produced videos made by automated bots, and Google is doing almost nothing to stop it.

No matter what it calls its shift in strategy, the premium scripted content game is all but over.