Back in September rumors started flying about regularly scheduled programming coming to YouTube in 2012.  There was talk that YouTube was negotiating with some big studios and celebs to bring a constant stream of TV-quality content to their viewers.  Well folks, the time has come.  Just hours ago, YouTube announced that new original channels will start appearing on YouTube next month.  Over 90 channels have been announced so far.


Read More: YouTube Announces New Channel Lineup Including Madonna, Jay-Z, Tony Hawk & More

Over the summer, YouTube revealed that hundreds of partners are now making six-figure incomes, but how much do individual video partnerships make?  Earlier this week Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times reported that it may be more than you think.  Cute videos of kids going viral could be enough to send the kids to college and more, and though YouTube expressly forbids their partners to reveal exactly how much money they make from YouTube, they’ve revealed some pretty nice estimations.
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When looking for inspiration for what to be for Halloween, there's no better place to turn than YouTube!  Last year we brought you a roundup of awesome Halloween costume makeup tutorials on YouTube, including tutorials on everything from Edward Scissorhands to Seductive Vampire makeup, Avatar, the Dark Knight Joker and more.  This year, we bring you ten more fun Halloween makeup tutorials.  If you aren’t sure yet what you are going to be for Halloween, perhaps this list will inspire you!


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On Sunday a major 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Turkey.  At least 240 people have been confirmed dead and over 1,000 have been injured.  As people around the world pray for those affected by the quake, videos of the disaster are rolling into YouTube, giving us a firsthand look at the disaster.


Read More: Scenes From Earthquake In Turkey Hit YouTube [Video]

Exactly one week after the Sesame Street YouTube channel was hacked, with children’s videos replaced with porn, another major brand has fallen victim to YouTube hackers—Microsoft.  Microsoft’s YouTube channel was hacked on Sunday afternoon.  All of the videos were taken down from the site and personal videos were uploaded, asking viewers to submit content, including background images, for the channel.


Read More: YouTube Hack Fest Claims Its Next Victim: Microsoft

The YouTube NextUp program takes an interesting approach to creating YouTube superstars. The project wants to find talented people and turn them into video savvy content generators. With better quality...

Read More: YouTube NextUp focuses on helping chefs and personal trainers become video stars

YouTube’s library of licensed music just got a whole lot bigger thanks to a new deal with Merlin, the world’s fifth largest music label after Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group.  Merlin represents 14,000 artists including Aphex Twin and The Prodigy and now, when YouTubers upload videos with music from Merlin artists, instead of having the soundtrack removed from the video, the artists will receive royalties.


Read More: YouTube Scores Licensing Deal With World’s 5th Largest Music Label

In recent years we’ve seen a rise in government on YouTube, from the United States to the UK, Israel and beyond.  More and more politicians are making their way onto YouTube, to open up a new channel of conversation with their constituents, and the latest to jump on this bandwagon is Germany.  Yesterday, the German federal government launched their new YouTube channel, Bundesregierung, and announced that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be answering citizens’ questions via YouTube next month [...]

Read More: German Government Launches YouTube Channel, Lets Citizens Interview Chancellor

YouTube today expanded its international offerings to include Singapore, launching a localised version of the website in the country, according to a report by ZDNet Asia. YouTube Singapore can be reached...

Read More: YouTube continues SE Asia push with localised Singapore offering

It appears that YouTube is becoming the popular method for governments to reach out to the public. You may have heard that YouTube...

Read More: The Federal Chancellor of Germany now has her own YouTube Channel

Chefs and trainers on YouTube are in for a treat—today YouTube announced that they’re kicking off two new YouTube Next Creator Programs and will be rewarding participants with a whole slew of free goodies and training.  The YouTube Next Chef and YouTube Next Trainer programs will each accept sixteen lucky participants who will take part in a three month virtual course on Google+ Hangouts, and will also each receive an equipment kit worth more than $5,000, filming and editing lessons, more than $ [...]

Read More: YouTube Offering Free Training, Equipment & Promotion To Top Cooking & Fitness ...

Yesterday afternoon the Sesame Street YouTube channel was taken offline following a lewd hacker attack in which many of the channel’s videos were taken down and replaced with pornographic video clips.  The channel returned to YouTube this morning, but the incident has left a bad taste in the mouth of Sesame Street fans the world over because, seriously, who would do something like that?


Read More: Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, Videos Replaced With Porn

YouTube has just become the next site to hop on the social commerce bandwagon with the announcement that they are launching a new feature called the Merch Store through which YouTube partners can offer merchandise directly from their channels.  The store will be rolled out over the coming weeks, starting with music partners.  Through the Merch Store, fans will be able to buy anything from digital downloads, concert tickets, meetups, t-shirts and more.


Read More: YouTube Launches Merch Store, Lets Music Partners Sell Merchandise On Their Channels

Children hoping to watch Sesame Street on YouTube on Sunday were greeted with quite the opposite. The channel was hacked, all videos deleted, design modified and graphic porn uploaded. A...

Read More: Sesame Street’s YouTube Channel Gets Hacked. Badly.

8 year old Sophia Grace Brownlee went viral last week, racking in over 7.6 million views so far for her cover of Nicki Minaj’s ‘Super Bass’.  Of course, it was only a matter of time before Ellen got ahold of her.  Earlier this week, Sophia Grace and her cousin Rosie came on The Ellen Show and got the surprise of their lives when their idol Nicki Minaj showed up.


Read More: Watch: 8 Year Old YouTube Sensation Sophia Grace Meets Her Idol Nicki Minaj

It was due time for a refresh, when you consider how much work Google has done with the rest of its services across the Internet, and it appears that YouTube...

Read More: YouTube is rolling out a new 12-choice pane for related videos

Ever wondered what it’s like to work at YouTube?  Your wondering days are over.  YouTube has launched a brand new series that gives viewers an inside look at life at YouTube.  Meet the employees, check out the San Bruno office, and get a taste of what it would be like to work at the one and only YouTube.


Read More: New YouTube Series Gives You A Glimpse Into Life At YouTube

Only eighteen YouTube channels have accomplished the feat of surpassing 1 billion YouTube views, among them Machinima, FAIL Blog, Expert Village, Ray William Johnson, and Barely Political.  Mondo Media, the animation distributor behind Happy Tree Friends, Dick Figures and other "deadly funny" series, is about to become number 19.


Read More: YouTube’s Billion Views Club About To Welcome A New Member

Earlier this year the NASA crew fielded YouTubers questions live from space and now YouTube is headed galaxy-ward once again.  Yesterday YouTube announced their new YouTube Space Lab project with Lenovo.  They’re asking students, ages 14 to 18, to submit videos explaining ideas for science experiments for space and the winning ideas will be performed and live streamed from the International Space Station.


Read More: Students: YouTube Space Lab Wants To Conduct Your Science Experiments…From Space!

Reports have been coming through on Twitter today that Internet filtering in Iran was lifted. Iranian residents were reportedly able to access sites that are usually inaccessible in Iran, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. While these sites were accessible, it was also reported on Twitter that HTTPS was not available for many sites. Speculations behind [...]

Read More: YouTube, Facebook and Twitter reportedly temporarily accessible in Iran due to “disruption”