YouTube creators are gaining a number of new tools to generate revenue from their videos outside of traditional advertising, as well as those that will help them better engage their fans, according to news the video streaming site announced today at the VidCon conference in Anaheim, California.

Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' and the 'Blender Foundation,' have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed that they are not available in their country, suggesting that YouTube's piracy filters have been triggered. It's unclear, however, who or what is to blame.

James Bridle’s essay on disturbing YouTube content aimed at children went viral last year. Has the problem gone away – or is it getting worse?

According to a study at Offenburg University, 96.5% of YouTubers don’t make enough annual ad revenue to reach the U.S. federal poverty line.

Its algorithm is still punishing LGBT creators

‘This is all I’ve ever wanted. Why am I so unhappy?’

YouTube is getting ready to a launch a new version of its music service — and at the same time it is getting ready to charge more to see originals shows like a “Karate Kid” spinoff. Background: Two years ago, YouTube launched YouTube Red, a service that gave subscribers an on-demand music service, more or less similar to Spotify or Apple Music — as well as access to original programming created just for the service. YouTube Red also removed ads from the world’s largest video service.

Google waited until late at night on a Wednesday to announce its new music-streaming service YouTube Music. That seems odd in itself, but now that the service is actually live something even weirder is happening: only certain people can sign up. Considering this new YouTube Music service has been in the works for at least a year, and also considering that YouTube already has a service remarkably similar to YouTube Music (YouTube Red), it’s a real head-scratcher as to why the launch of this brand new product is such a mess.

It’s not so harmful for parents to show YouTube videos to their toddlers, but it is officially foolish to think they’ll learn anything from the experience. Because even if young children seem to be engaging with the characters on the screen, a new study shows that they aren’t really absorbing anything developmentally beneficial from YouTube.

Police identified Nasim Aghdam, 39, as the suspect in yesterday's shooting at YouTube's headquarters.Tonight San Bruno police identified the shooter at YouTube's HQ as Nasim Aghdam, a 39-year-old woman from San Diego and said there is no evidence she knew the victims or that they were specifically targeted. While the sources have not confirmed a reason behind the attack, now that her name is known we've found a number of videos from her posted on YouTube and other sites saying that she was a vegan athlete and animal rights activist.

Nasim Aghdam sought to build a mass following online but seemed to shun connections in the real world, a world she saw as dark, diseased and unjust. She chased eyeballs on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube with homemade videos that attracted hundreds of thousands of views, yielding not just an income source but an identity.

You already know that there just isn’t a more effective way to reach your intended audience than video. You can share videos on your website, post them on various social media channels, and use your YouTube channel to provide amazing content to your subscribers.

"Information cues" — links to Wikipedia — will appear alongside videos about topics that have inspired significant debate, like the moon landing and chemtrails.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said today that the video-hosting platform has started limiting the number of hours its part-time content moderators can view disturbing videos to four hours per day.

Police say they are responding to an "active shooter" at the company's office in northern California.

Bruce Hornsby & the Range's official music video for 'The Way It Is'.

She was a fabulous Russian gymnasts who never made it to the Olympics due to injuries.

In the now all-too-familiar search for a motive that follows mass shootings in America, few recent cases have provided as seemingly clear a narrative as that of Nasim Aghdam, the woman who sneaked into the headquarters of YouTube, in San Bruno, California, on Tuesday and opened fire with a handgun, wounding three employees before killing herself. Aghdam was a YouTube content creator by trade; she starred in her own kookily amateurish music videos, sketches, fitness how-tos, and rants, many promoting veganism and all filmed in the same eerie, oversaturated hue.

YouTube, one of the world's most popular websites, has been accused of improperly collecting the personal data of young children. In a complaint filed to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday, a coalition of more than 20 advocacy, consumer and privacy groups claim that Google's video platform is violating U.S. child protection laws by collecting personal data on users aged less than 13 years old.

YouTube appears to have fallen victim to hackers today, as a number of high-profile music videos have been defaced. The most-viewed YouTube video of all time, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” disappeared from YouTube today after being defaced by hackers. The video’s image was altered and replaced with a masked gang holding guns (from Netflix show Casa de Papel), and the description was changed by hackers calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi’sh.

Some creators say privacy concerns, censorship, and a coming ban on cryptocurrency ads are driving them away from the big names.

Mark Wiens never had a 9-to-5 job after graduating college. Now he has nearly 1.8 million subscribers and has visited dozens of countries.

Researchers followed YouTube's channel recommendations wherever they led and often found Alex Jones and other fringe channels.

Some YouTube's videographers take out frustrations on company's employees.

Ads from over 300 companies and organizations -- including tech giants, major retailers, newspapers and government agencies -- ran on YouTube channels promoting white nationalists, Nazis, pedophilia, conspiracy theories and North Korean propaganda, a CNN investigation has found.

Multi-channel networks hit hard by ‘Know Your Customer’ policy

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After nearly two years, it finally returns

A Singaporean YouTuber who allegedly posted videos defending paedophilia has had his channel terminated. Amos Yee, 19, is currently living in the United States having been granted asylum there. He had previously been imprisoned twice in Singapore over videos that criticised religion and state authorities. His YouTube channel had attracted 40,000 subscribers, according to the South China Morning Post.

What’s going on with YouTube’s most popular vlogging team?

From Beyonce’s livestream at Coachella to landmark videos like “Despacito,” “New Rules” and “This Is America,” more than 1 billion music fans come to YouTube each month to be part of music culture and discover new music. It’s also where over 2 million artists come to share their voices and art with the world. YouTube is where artists and fans connect: creating and discovering a world of music.

Jordan Peterson has become one of the most known clinical psychologist in less than two years. He has more than a million followers on YouTube and thousands of supporters on other social media channels. I'm finding out how was he able to get that much exposure and support from the marketing perspective.

Vevo, the music industry’s attempt to create its own video hub, isn’t dead. But it doesn’t look very healthy for the company, which launched nine years ago. A series of moves over the past few months have removed most of Vevo’s reason to exist, capped off with the news today that it’s not going to run its own site or apps anymore. In essence, Vevo is going to stop pretending that it is anything other than a shell company that delivers videos from the big music labels to YouTube.