The content creator’s latest stunt is paying for cataract removal for 1,000 people who were blind or near-blind but could not afford the surgery. “We’re curing a thousand people’s blindness,” says MrBeast – real name Jimmy Donaldson – in the Saturday video, which reached over 32 million views as of Sunday afternoon.

PewDiePie's almost 10 years of dominance have come to an end, as MrBeast reaches 112 million subscribers.

YouTube's extensive music library has caught the eyes of many.

MrBeast wants to raise $150 million for his YouTube channels and businesses combined.

The 58 workers want bargaining rights and formal recognition of their bargaining unit after a supermajority signed union cards..

It now costs $5 more per month.

Popular Minecraft YouTuber Dream revealed his face behind the mask, prompting mixed reactions.

In a reply to a user who tweeted that 4K was showing up as a premium-only feature, YouTube Support tweeted the user was part of an "experiment."

As you may recall, Russell Brand was once a very loud lefty progressive. He starred in documentaries about ending the war on drugs and fixing income inequality. He even once had a biweekly column in the liberal rag The New Statesman. Now look at him. After the pandemic began, he found a new audience by preaching to anti-vaxxers and other right-wing conspiracy theories — all while losing some of his old audience, who thought he’d “officially lost his mind.” Now the rebranding (so to speak) appears to be complete: He’s signed up with the far right video platform Rumble.

Learn how history/tech YouTube channel Asianometry reached 270K subscribers earning $5K per month with ads and Patreon

I am a working mom with an 11-month-old baby. What sort of picture does that paint for you? That of an individual who has little to no time to spare? Well, you’re right. I am neck-deep in it right now, and I’m sure there are many other folks, parents or not, who can empathize with an absolute dearth of leisurely time. You know what I’m talking about — those precious few minutes in the day to just lay back and watch a YouTube video or two.

Scientists at Flinders University, Australia, said YouTube delayed the time getting into bed by 11 minutes for every half-hour watched. While in bed it pushed back falling asleep by 13 minutes, they added.

In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone, Bot Sentinel founder Christopher Bouzy explains how the video sharing giant seems to be profiting off hate speech

YouTube’s royalty system has long been criticized by multiple music-industry organizations for opaqueness, a lack of oversight and, many feel, insufficient payments. But a new report in Billboard m…

YouTube is partnering with a handful of edtech companies

Many followers of "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling are pointing out that her newest book appears to bear some similarities to her own life, as the plot revolves around an artist who is doxxed online. "The Ink Black Heart," written under Rowling’s pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, follows Edie Ledwell, the creator of a popular YouTube cartoon who is "persecuted by a mysterious online figure," according to the book's Amazon description. The novel, which was released Tuesday, is the sixth book in her thriller series “Cormoran Strike.”

The days of Twitch partner exclusivity are over. Twitch told partnered streamers in an email this morning that the platform was lifting its long-standing exclusivity agreement that denied partners the ability to stream on other services. Partners will now be able to stream on YouTube, Facebook Live, and other platforms — though in some cases, Twitch still limits what they’re able to do.

Google-owned streaming platform YouTube has announced that it will pull videos with information on unsafe abortion methods on its platform. On the microblogging platform, YouTube said it will launch an information panel under all abortion-related videos.

The same goes for false claims about abortion safety.