Ryan’s World ‘child influencer’ also made estimated $200m from branded toys and clothing

YouTube is nixing its Community Contributions feature which let users help creators by translating titles, descriptions, closed captions, and subtitles.

A group of Black YouTubers is suing YouTube and its parent, Google, alleging that the companies discriminate against their videos based on race. The suit claims that YouTube uses its automated tools to "restrict, censor and denigrate" Black creators, hurting their subscribers and revenue, while videos with racist hate speech are hosted and allowed to make money on the site even after being flagged for violating YouTube's rules.

Creators can chop up the YouTube seek bar into segmented, titled chapters.

Joe Rogan has announced today that his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience will become a Spotify exclusive starting later this year. The show is currently available on a variety of platforms, with full video versions posted to YouTube. As of today, it sits in second place on the Apple Podcasts charts.

Mention North Korean propaganda in casual conversation (as you do) and one name is likely to come up: Ri Chun Hee, the hanbok-wearing, effervescent bearer of news, good and bad, on the DPRK’s screens for over four decades.

YouTube has deleted conspiracy theorist David Icke’s account. The video-sharing site said the 68-year-old violated its policies on sharing information about coronavirus.

YouTube said Monday that because of reduced in-office work, the platform is relying more on machine learning than on humans to review videos.

Three teens will be crowned ambassadors: "I feel it's really important to pass the mic to them."

Popular vloggers are influencing how students learn and where they study. But are universities keeping up?

Forget lemonade stands. The big money is in children making content for children.

YouTuber Simone Giertz gave up wildly popular but barely functioning machines and confronted her fears of imperfection (while facing her own mortality and making an awesome Truckla EV).

Having achieved success, some top influencers are deciding to disconnect from the video-sharing platform, worn down by what some say are the demands of YouTube’s algorithm for fresh content to promote.

The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.

YouTube's annual Rewind video was released Thursday, and has already accrued significantly more dislikes than likes from upset users.

Clive Palmer, an Australian billionaire often called the Donald Trump from Down Under, is threatening to sue YouTuber Friendly Jordies for defamation if he doesn’t pay $500,000. The popular YouTube personality and comedian, whose real name is Jordan Shanks, posted a video with the threatening letter he recently received from Palmer’s attorney which, among other things, claims that Palmer was defamed because the YouTuber called him “Fatty McFuckhead” and a “dense Humpty Dumpty.”

Almost a complete reversal of new policies

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."

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