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Oscars move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime home ABC

December 29, 2025 Jake Coyle

In a seismic shift for one of television’s marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last week. […]

MrBeast CEO, ‘Beast Games’ winner rally brand partners, rare disease support on Wall Street

August 2, 2025 James Pollard

NEW YORK — MrBeast’s new CEO hit Wall Street last Wednesday as YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson’s media empire looks to develop long-term brand partnerships and, in turn, unlock more funding for its charitable content. Venture capitalist […]

YouTube creators will soon have to disclose use of gen AI in videos or risk suspension

November 16, 2023 The Associated Press

YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including a requirement that creators reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos. In a blog post Tuesday outlining a number of […]

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NC YouTube star rethinks business of philanthropy

December 29, 2021 Mark Kennedy, Associated Press

GREENVILLE — The line of cars started forming at dawn. It was early November in Greenville, N.C., and drivers waited in a line that stretched for miles to pick up Thanksgiving turkeys — 10,000 free […]

YouTube bans videos questioning vaccine claims

September 29, 2021 Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

YouTube is wiping vaccine skeptics from its popular video-sharing platform. The ban on so-called vaccine misinformation, announced in a blog post on Wednesday. YouTube’s new rules will prohibit “misinformation” about any vaccine that has been […]

Trump files suit against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

July 9, 2021 Jill Colvin and Matt O'Brien, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country’s biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored. Trump announced the action against Facebook, Twitter and […]

YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown

October 16, 2020 Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — YouTube is following the lead of Twitter and Facebook, saying that it is taking more steps to limit QAnon and other conspiracy theories that can lead to real-world violence. The Google-owned video […]

Revamped YouTube Music aims to better appeal to local audio tastes

May 19, 2018 admin

SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is hiring music experts across the world to make its revamped music streaming subscription more locally “authentic,” officials at YouTube, a unit of Google, told Reuters on Friday. Music programmers in […]

YouTube attacker was vegan activist who accused tech firm of discrimination

April 4, 2018 North State Journal Staff

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The woman identified by police as the attacker who wounded three people at YouTube’s headquarters in California was a vegan blogger who accused the video-sharing service of discriminating against her, according […]

Google raises price of YouTube TV, adds sports, Turner

February 28, 2018 admin

NEW YORK — Google is raising the price of its YouTube TV online service for new customers as it adds channels from Time Warner’s Turner, National Basketball League and Major League Baseball, the company said […]