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Watch: Casey Neistat interviews YouTube Head of Business

Popular YouTuber Casey Neistat has been very vocal about the company’s failings in cultivating a healthy platform for users and creators. He’s made multiple videos…

YouTuber boxing match brings in 1.6m viewers

A boxing match between YouTuber rivals KSI and Joe Weller, livestreamed Saturday night, was at its peak watched by 1.6-million viewers. Two days later,…

YouTube CEO offers vague plans for 2018

After a tumultuous 2017, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has published a blog post highlighting the company’s five priorities for 2018 — but the post…

Namibia’s ‘shithole’ video campaign reaches 600m users online

Earlier this month, we uncovered a novel advertising campaign subverting Donald Trump’s “shithole countries” remark. We thought it was pretty damn funny. And it…

YouTube ‘Remix’ music service to launch in March?

YouTube is readying its own music streaming service for debut in March 2018, according to a report by Bloomberg. The service, which is known…

Here are the YouTube videos South Africa was watching in 2017

YouTube this week announced the most watched videos of 2017 worldwide — but there aren’t exactly the videos South Africa was watching. Instead, South Africans were…

[Watch] Top 10 YouTube videos of 2017

YouTube has released its two top 10 lists — one for general content and one for music videos — so without further ado, here are…

YouTube Go turns YouTube into offline video portal

Google’s latest app YouTube Go, aims to make it easier for those with limited connectivity to watch videos offline. YouTube Go will initially launch…

YouTube goes social, launches a community tab for creators

YouTube is now going beyond being a video-sharing platform and is implementing a community tab that is meant to strengthen the bond between creators and…

YouTube censorship: what’s all the big fuss about?

If you haven’t heard by now, YouTube content creators have been up in arms this week as their old videos will no longer gain…

Avalanche rocking Himalayas peak caught on YouTube

Climbing any of the the Himalayas’ many peaks is dangerous enough, but what if you throw an errant avalanche into the mix? Well, you…

PewDiePie tweets about ISIS, gets account suspended

There’s never a dull moment in the life of Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie, and that usually extends to his YouTube videos. But the infamous…

YouTube Backstage is Google’s incoming Facebook rival

Does Google have plans to turn YouTube into a Facebook pretender? According to a report by VentureBeat, yes. Dubbed YouTube Backstage, the feature will…

YouTube Live: 4 ways businesses can use Google’s streaming app

Faced with stiff competition from Facebook, Twitter, and a handful of upstarts, Google-owned YouTube has announced it will be adding a live mobile streaming…

Liverpool to livestream friendly football match on YouTube in 360 degrees

Liverpool might not’ve had a stellar campaign in the last Premier League football season, but the club is at least spending time on new…

Discovering YouTube: 6 binge-worthy YouTube channels for cinema lovers

Education and entertainment are two faculties that aren’t usually seen together, except perhaps on YouTube. Using this as a lens for our latest series…

Family car in Kruger National Park smashed by stampeding buffalo

South Africa’s famous Kruger National Park can be navigated using personal vehicles, which makes impromptu animal sightings a fairly frequent occurrence. Although these tw0…

YouTube vs TV: the battle lines for advertisers are being re-drawn

Spare a thought for today’s TV executives. Not too long ago they were the kings of all they surveyed, smiling sympathetically at their struggling…

YouTube now supports 360 live video. Is this VR’s killer app?

Between the Gear VR and PC-based headsets, virtual reality is slowly gaining steam. But the technology needs all the content it can get to…

YouTube: brands and South African YouTubers should cozy up

Last night, YouTube hosted an event in Cape Town in which it played matchmaker between South African YouTubers and brands. The event saw some…

7 gorgeous 360 degree videos that will ignite your wanderlust

Wanderlust is a brilliant and terrible thing. Brilliant, when you’re on a boat in the Med plotting your next destination, and terrible, when you’re…

White House wins global political YouTube shootout

We all know that most world governments and political leaders have woken up to the fact that they need to be active on social…

Move over Psy, Adele’s ‘Hello’ is fastest video to hit 1bn views mark

Since Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ became the first video to hit one billion YouTube views back in December 2012, a number of others have reached…

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