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If the number of people watching the Republican and Democratic national conventions on YouTube can shed any insight, this could be a close presidential race.The Young Turks were among the shows live streaming on YouTube during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Terry Collins/CNET More 9 million people saw YouTube's live steam of the conventions, the Google-owned site said Friday. YouTube staples, Th...

YouTuber PewDiePie made almost as much as "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt in 2015. Getty A clamoring mob is a clamoring mob, regardless of who's at the center of the throng.That's the lesson companies like Facebook are leaing about inteet celebrities. Is Swedish YouTube personality PewDiePie on par with Brad Pitt? In a sense, it doesn't matter. In June, The Wall Street Joual found that Facebook is payi...

[embedded content] Fresh off being named 2015's highest paid actor in Hollywood by Forbes last week, The Rock launched his own YouTube channel on Monday and he's called in a few ringers to show him the ropes.Chief among them is vlogger and comedian Lilly Singh, who gives Johnson the guided tour of YouTube's secret volcano lair recording studio. The online venture comes from a partnership between Johnson's 7 Bucks Productions, which he runs with ex-wi...

If you love "Ghostbusters," chances are you already know all too well the controversy ping-ponging between diehard fans over whether the mostly all-female "Ghostbusters" reboot starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones will be funny or is just a gimmick to sell tickets. Some people can't wait to see what "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig does with the well-known humor tropes from the original '80s "Ghostbusters," but due to the vocal critics who ...

Hang out on social media channels long enough and you're bound to run into a hater or two. YouTuber Simone Giertz decided to respond to killjoys by creating a "deal with it" meme droid. The "deal with it" meme is a popular online response to those who criticize your actions or comments, basically meaning "accept it" and accompanying that with an animated GIF of someone putting on a pair of dark sunglasses.Giertz posted a video on Wednesday showing off a rather unique robotic arm th...

The music video was inspired by a painting by Vincent Desiderio. Screenshot by Xiomara Blanco/CNET Kanye West's infamous music video for "Famous" is now available to on YouTube. After its world premiere, live-streamed on Tidal, it was available exclusively on the streaming-music service for a week. Of course, that didn't stop it from being the talk of the inteet.The NSFW video features Kanye buck-naked in a big b...

YouTube u200bYouTube A video pirate going by the YouTube useame Thuy Pham surreptitiously embedded a copy of the 1995 teen movie "Clueless" in a 360-degree video uploaded to YouTube this week. The video (now removed) starts by showing a slightly sped-up version of the film in a normal YouTube screen dimension, but clicking the 360-degree arrows rotates the plane to reveal a larger viewing environment, essentially...

Facebook is among a group of companies reportedly using automated technology to identify and remove terrorist propaganda. CNET Facebook and YouTube are among a group of popular web sites that have quietly begun using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, Reuters reported Saturday. Originally developed to identify and remove copyright-protected material, the technology is looking for unique hash...

YouTube Red, the online video giant's paid subscription service, scores its first big TV drama series. Sarah Mitroff/CNET YouTube Red is reportedly shelling out the green for its first big-budget, Hollywood-produced television drama.The online video giant's paid subscription service has snagged a scripted series based on "Step Up," a 2006 dance movie that kickstarted actor Channing Tatum's career, the New York Ti...

YouTube is about to push live streaming from the web to your mobile device. The video-sharing site will soon offer support for live streaming on its YouTube app, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Thursday at the VidCon conference in Anaheim, Califoia.YouTube will soon offer live streaming baked into its mobile app. YouTube The Google-owned company also promises that live streaming will have all the regular feat...

[embedded content] Much like hit records ea awards, YouTube channels get special commemorative trophies for reaching subscriber milestones. The first of these is the Silver Play Button for racking up 100,000 subscribers. It's silver-plated and personalized with the channel name. The Hydraulic Press Channel, a goofy channel dedicated to crushing things in a hydraulic press, recently received its Silver Play Button and naturally attempted to smoosh it ...

The lonelygirl15 YouTube series is getting a reboot. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET In 2006, Twitter was just a few months old, your MySpace Top 8 was prime real estate and lonelygirl15 captivated the inteet with her first vlog. What started as a series of webcam videos, filmed by a 16-year-old girl in her bedroom, lonelygirl15 soon tued into a massive sensation, pulling in millions of views. But after just a f...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageSo very clever. Licor Beirão; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You don't like soccer? OK, you can go. But wait. You like liquor, don't you? Please stay then and consider the clever maneuverings of Portuguese liquor brand Licor Beirão. It placed an ad alongside the field at a recent soccer match bet...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePlease don't ask me what this is all about. Old Spice; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET If you're selling vaguely masculine smells to recently pubescent boys, it's best to move them in unexpected ways.These boys, after all, aren't consistent creatures. They sleep until noon. They have mood swings. ...

[embedded content] From photography to racing, drones are becoming increasingly useful as people explore the evolving technology. On Tuesday, Simone Giertz, a YouTube blogger known for making humorously dodgy robots, tried to take drones to their next logical frontier of glory: hair cuts.She paired up with computer Samy Kamkar to make the above video, which sees the duo attempt to give a mannequin a stylish new 'do.As you'll see, this isn't something...

Enlarge Image Universal Pop stars. Comedy stars. The Lonely Island are all these things and more. No wait, just those two things. Anyway, we met up with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, the comic minds collectively known as The Lonely Island, to talk about their first feature film "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping", how they invented YouTube, and how they chose the perfect male nudity for the mov...

Enlarge Image YouTube As part of the VI Scholas World Congress, the Catholic Pope has for the first time met with a bunch of YouTube creators for the purpose of promoting empathy.The 11 creators were from 10 different countries around the world, and have 27 million subscribers between them. Louise Pentland of the UK, Lucas Castel of Argentina, Matemática Río of Brazil, Hayla Ghazal of the United Arab Emirates, Du...

"Where is my YouTube check?" WireImage via Getty Video streams don't pay the bills.That's the takeaway from a report on UK musicians' revenue in 2015 by the British Phonographic Industry, the record label association that promotes British artists including Adele and Sam Smith.The number of views on YouTube and other sites was explosive last year, rising 88 percent from 2014, to 26.9 billion plays, BPI said. Yet, ...