Millionaire YouTube star Zoella has therapy to ‘unravel’ the anxiety she’s been battling since the …
YOUTUBE star Zoe 'Zoella' Sugg has revealed she has weekly therapy sessions to “unravel” the anxiety she has been battling since the age of 14. The 28-year-old social media mogul, who has an estimated £2.5 million in the bank, opened up about her mental health issues in the SS18 edition …
Dunkirk Was the Most-Viewed Best Picture Oscar Nominee Trailer on YouTube
The 90th Academy Awards will be handed out Sunday night, but YouTube already presented its award for most-viewed trailer among the best picture nominees to Dunkirk. The war film's trailer had nearly 44 million views as of Feb. 14, outlasting second-place Get Out (30 million) and No. 3 The Shape …
Seattle Sounders announce live streaming partnership with YouTube TV
The Seattle Sounders announced a new media rights agreement with YouTube TV on Wednesday evening, a multi-year partnership that sees the latter become the club's official live TV streaming home. YouTube TV, a new monthly subscription streaming service, becomes the local streaming destination … Read More
In reversal, YouTube pulls neo-Nazi videos
Despite being aware of the content of AWD's videos after they were flagged by users and media outlets, YouTube said as late as Tuesday that it would not delete them. Instead, it marked the clips with a warning, telling users who clicked: "The following content has been identified by the …
YouTube moderators pull right-wing comment channels by mistake
YouTube's new moderation team appears to have mistakenly removed a number of right-wing political channels from the site. The video-streaming giant – owned, like Google, by Alphabet – is currently stepping up its efforts to remove offensive content as the US gun control debate heats up following the … Read More
Some YouTube human moderators were too trigger-happy, but it’s a mission impossible
In 2017, YouTube made moves to clean up the platform after numerous complaints. One thing it said it would do is to hire about 10,000 human moderators to keep closer tabs on content than automated filters can. This it did, but it seems some of the moderators were perhaps too …
YouTube says it ‘accidentally’ shut down conservative channels
“As we work to hire rapidly and ramp up our policy enforcement teams throughout 2018, newer members may misapply some of our policies resulting in mistaken removals,” a YouTube spokesperson told Bloomberg. “We're continuing to enforce our existing policies regarding harmful and dangerous … Read More
YouTube offline video downloads are supported in 125 countries
About a month ago, we noticed that the ability to download YouTube videos for offline viewing had rolled out to more countries. At the time, we were able to confirm Lebanon, Iraq, Morocco, Azerbaijan, and UAE had it based on our devices and reports from our comment section, but we …
Speedway memories, Mostovoi magic and bobsleigh’s worst starts
The World Speedway Championships final at Wembley Stadium in 1957. From left to right; George White, Aage Hansen and Peter Craven. Photograph: PA. 1) Let's have some speedway memories: Peter Collins v Egon Muller in 1984; Bruce Penhall in 1981 action; world championship action from … Read More
YouTube says it was wrong to remove some right-wing videos and channels
YouTube has said that new moderators were to blame for the removal of some right-wing videos from the site. Just a few days ago InfoWars' Alex Jones had a video removed for violating YouTube harassment policies and following this a number of right-wing and conspiracy theory channels received … Read More