The Definitive Guide to Comedy
YouTube is pivoting away from both original programming and premium subscription services. Sounds like a bad thing. And yet. Even though you shouldn’t be pitching your new original comedy ideas to the video giant, you will be able to continue watching comedy on YouTube for free. YouTube is dropping what …
If you enjoyed Get Out, and most of you certainly did, myself included, then you’ll be excited to know that Oscar-winning writer Jordan Peele is now creating a new twisted sci-fi anthology series for YouTube Premium. Weird City will debut in 2019, co-created by Peele and Charlie Sanders, nominated for …
Some parts of the Happy Ending gang are finding a new beginning in 2019 with a YouTube Red series that’ll star Adam Pally alongside Sam Richardson and Jay Pharoah. To wit: The creator of Happy Endings, David Caspe, that show’s writers Daniel Libman and Matthew Libman, executive producer Jamie Tarses, studio …
Jenn McAllister has 3.1 million subscribers and counting on YouTube (plus another 1.9 million on Instagram and 2 million on Twitter), where she documents her life as jennxpenn. Jenn started uploading videos to YouTube when she was 12. At 16, she signed a deal with Awesomeness TV, then moved from …
The O.G. Karate Kid may look ageless, but Ralph Macchio is going to find out what it’s like to be grown-up Daniel LaRusso soon enough, as YouTube Red has outbid other streaming platforms for a 10-episode half-hour series called Cobra Kai. Cobra Kai will pick up three decades after the …
Yousef Erakat has upward of 10 million YouTube subscribers for fouseyTUBE and won the 2016 Entertainer of the Year honors at the Streamy Awards, and yet he said during his acceptance speech at the Streamys that he might also be the most hated personality on YouTube. And still, he reads …
YouTube stars, like most social media celebrities, appear to enjoy the most uplifting glamorous lives. But Lilly Singh, who has 7.8 million YouTube subscribers and counting for her IISuperwomanII channel and another 1.2 million-plus subscribers for her daily Superwoman Vlogs, wasn’t always in the mood to lead her followers to her …
A few years ago, YouTube invested $200 million in boosting the profiles and content of 100 of its already higher-profile channels. This time around, YouTube is going to try to beat the other streaming giants by joining them. YouTube announced YouTube Red today, a new membership service providing ad-free videos, webseries and …
