YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are facing a flood of AI-generated content aimed at children. It’s easy and quick to create, and production is rampant. But it has the inherent flaws of AI-generated video: visual inconsistencies, narrative gaps, and a lack of realism. While it’s still too early for comprehensive studies, experts have already raised concerns about the impact of these videos on children’s cognitive development.

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YouTube will partner with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to stream next week’s Sports and News & Documentary Emmys. The Sports Emmys will stream live on May 26, and the News & Documentary Emmys will be shown on May 27-28 on the NATAS YouTube channel, starting at 7 p.m. ET each evening. […]

EXCLUSIVE: L.A. publisher and entertainment company Gungnir is launching a YouTube series, Badd, Gramm-mar. The comedy series, which is from Gungnir founder and publisher Matthew Medney, launches on June 30, billed as “part-review, part-social experiment and part-emotional group therapy disguised as fandom discourse.” We’ve got a trailer above, which you can watch exclusively. Comedians such […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired two more seasons of animated series Masha and the Bear and extended its deal for previous and spin-off seasons of the hit show. Based on a Russian folk tale, the Animaccord-produced and distributed show revolves around the adventures of a little girl named Masha and a bear. The Russian show has […]

The power of Backrooms extends beyond the global box office and to TV markets in Germany. This week’s Cologne confab Seriencamp, which has become a crucial cog in the international TV calendar machine, was replete with chatter about the new generation of creatives propping up the box office, with Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, Curry Barker’s Obsession […]

TikTok executives decided not to disable notifications during school hours, ignoring recommendations from their own safety team, and paid millions of dollars to parents’ and teachers’ associations to promote the social network in schools. Snapchat sent alerts to teenagers while they were in class urging them to share what was happening in the classroom. Google executives knew that YouTube was recommending videos to students during the school day that were unrelated to their lessons. Meta paid “teen ambassadors” to promote Instagram and hand out gifts to their classmates.

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As the start of the World Cup draws near, the United States government has set its sights on foreign influencers. Immigration authorities have warned that individuals entering the country on a tourist visa may not use their stay to produce content intended to generate income on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook or other online platforms — a practice that for years has been common among digital creators worldwide.

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KSI, one of the world’s most popular YouTubers, is exiting his collective The Sidemen. In a video titled ‘I’m leaving the Sidemen’ posted on YouTube to his 18.4 million subscribers, KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji, said he has been “pulled in a lot of directions” over the past few years but the “decision is completely […]

"Charlie Bit My Finger" -- a private family video which unexpectedly became one of the earliest global viral videos on YouTube -- has been officially preserved by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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“Open Door,” Kevin Cate’s viral sci-fi short with nearly 15 million views across YouTube shorts, TikTok and Instagram, will be adapted into a feature-length film through a six-figure development deal. The news follows the success of breakout horror films “Obsession and “Backrooms” as the industry invests in YouTube creators and younger filmmakers with established audiences. […]

With late-night at a crossroads, Ben Gleib is forging a new path. On May 28, just a week after the permanent shuttering of The Late Show, Gleib is set to launch Good Night with Ben Gleib, the world’s first late-night talk show built specifically for YouTube. It’s a bet rooted in the belief that late-night as a […]

Fans are mourning the loss of John Davis. The YouTuber, who made videos alongside his mother Frances "Tootsie" Davis in a series titled “Coffee Time With John and Momma,” died on June 10 following...