It’s officially opening day at Steele Stadium, and Pablo Sanchez and the Backyard Baseball team are ready for their first at bat as the first-ever Backyard Sports animated special goes live on January 29. The special, which can be found on the Backyard Sports YouTube channel and playing in Dave…

EXCLUSIVE: Arcade, which reps YouTube collective The Sidemen, has restructured and brought in a Head of Original Video from News UK to lead on IP development and originals. As part of the restructure, Arcade founders Jordan Schwarzenberger and Sam Uwins have taken on formalized roles of CEO and…

While Super Bowl LX will see the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks battle for the Vince Lombardi Trophy, a day earlier, YouTube and the NFL will host a flag football game. YouTube Super Bowl LX Flag Football Game will stream on YouTube on Saturday, February 7 at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m…

EXCLUSIVE: Radial Entertainment's FilmRise has landed worldwide rights to YouTube franchise The Infographics Show. Radial struck a multi-year deal with Infographics Show producer Dark Matter Design, financial terms of which weren’t disclosed. Included in the pact for Radial's digital…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators are overtaking traditional Hollywood and should be considered “the new stars and studios.” In his annual letter to the YouTube community published Wednesday, the top exec hailed the rise of creator content and also laid out ways the Google-owned video giant…

The BBC has confirmed plans to produce original YouTube shows for the first time under a watershed agreement with the Google-owned platform. First reported last week, the BBC has earmarked pots of money from across its TV and news divisions that will be used to fund “YouTube-first” shows, an…

Alan Chikin Chow, the biggest creator on YouTube Shorts, is heading to Netflix. Chow, who created YouTube series Alan's Universe, whose channel has over 99M subscribers, is behind a new scripted series set in the world of K-Pop for the streamer. He is working with Hybe America, the U.S. arm of…

The BBC is set to produce content for YouTube under a landmark deal with the Google-owned platform, which is increasingly challenging the dominance of traditional television networks. The BBC is preparing to make original shows for YouTube, which could then later switch to iPlayer or BBC Sounds…

EXCLUSIVE: YouTube has continued to upend the natural order of UK television by overtaking the BBC on a key measurement of audience reach, according to an analysis by Deadline. In an unprecedented moment, YouTube passed the BBC in monthly audience reach figures published by Barb, the UK’s…

The Asia Pacific screen biz will hit revenues of $196B by 2030, according to a Media Partners Asia report. This represents an expansion of 2.8% average annual growth between 2025-2030, the analyst noted, with online video accounting for all net growth as it expands at an annual 7%…

The Walt Disney Co. is paying $10 million to settle allegations over the labeling of children-focused videos onto YouTube, the U.S. Department of Justice reaffirmed Tuesday. The DOJ announcement follows a disclosure of the same settlement last September by the Federal Trade…

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