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Gangnam Style breaks YouTube record
[View the story "Gangnam Style breaks YouTube record" on Storify] Gangnam Style breaks YouTube record Noted in the L.A. Times: The rapper Psy has surpassed the prince of pop to become the new king of...
View ArticleBaby-snatching eagles: why video has lost credibility
Before photography, newspapers hired illustrators to draw the news. Seriously, illustrators weren’t artists, they were reporters. Readers took drawings for truth. Why else would they be in the...
View ArticleYouTube’s online video audience surpasses 1 billion
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – YouTube says more than 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch everything from zany clips of cute kittens to sobering scenes of social unrest...
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Google ready to launch paid Youtube channels: report
(Torsten Silz/AP) Google is getting set to unveil its first series of paid-content Youtube channels, according to a report in the Financial Times. Sources tell the Financial Times that the announcement...
View ArticleCanadian companies Corus, DHX Media, OUTtv help YouTube launch pay TV channels
HALIFAX – Canadian TV producers Corus Entertainment (TSX:CJR.B), DHX Media and OUTtv are among the partners helping Google’s YouTube move into monthly subscription streaming. YouTube announced Thursday...
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Youtube’s new Hollywood studio is free, for some
Google has quietly been launching state-of-the art production facilities for YouTube creators. Check out its crown jewel, the 41,000-square-foot, $25-million YouTube Space LA, a vast building complete...
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Cringeworthy! Celebrating the best of the worst on YouTube
Andrew Gunadie and Andrew Bravener In the early 2000s, two Wisconsin teens named Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher began assembling a collection of old VHS tapes they found at garage sales and thrift...
View ArticleThe 2013 Buffer Festival: YouTube filmmaking celebrated in Toronto
It seems inconceivable that there has yet to be some sort of major event devoted to YouTube videos and their creators. Even the iPhone has its own film festival, while YouTube itself just held its own...
View ArticleThe Top 10 YouTube videos of 2013
The Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis’s song What Does the Fox Say? (“Ring-ding-ding-dingdingeringeding”) was the YouTube hit of the year, racking up more than 230 million views. But plenty of other videos...
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Oprah Winfrey never approached Doug and Rob Ford about a show
Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford In news that will likely shock no one, the Ford brothers have been caught up in another one of their infamous battles with the...
View ArticleWhen a cereal bathing social media star interviews U.S. president
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for interviews Thursday with YouTube celebrities known for their varying degrees of eyeball-grabbing acts. One has bathed in milk and cereal, and once...
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‘Little Women’ 2.0: The classics take over YouTube
(Photo by Joanna Haughton) The opening lines of The March Family Letters hit a familiar note: “Dear Marmee, Merry Christmas! We’re all doing perfectly well. Hannah is checking on us every other day. We...
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‘We have flowers.’ Video of father explaining attacks goes viral
LONDON — A father’s heartwarming explanation to his son about the Paris terror attacks is electrifying social media, with more than 29 million views on Facebook alone. The video shows an interview...
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CrossFit enthusiast Lindsay Hilton becomes YouTube sensation
Lindsay Hilton, who was born without full arms and legs, coaches rugby at Dalhousie University in Halifax on Monday, March 28. (Andrew Vaughan, CP) HALIFAX — A rugby player without full limbs is...
View ArticleGreg Fergus takes the 60-Second challenge
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YouTube star Dr. Michael Evans on common-sense health care
Dr Mike Evans at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. (Photograph by Jaime Hogge) It seems a little implausible that a man who studied English literature at university, drilled holes in an island in the...
View ArticleMaxime Bernier takes the 60-Second Challenge
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View ArticleInside the sale of Lawren Harris’s ‘Mountain Forms’
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View ArticleBus Bonspiel: Jennifer Jones narrates Montreal’s car curling
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View ArticleAlan Shepard takes the 60-Second Challenge
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View ArticleJames Daschuk takes the 60-Second Challenge (captioned)
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View ArticleHow to regain control of your kids in seven steps
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View ArticleMarching with Donna: The Women’s March through a camera lens
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View ArticleNine quotes to know from the Washington Women’s March
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View ArticleNine ways Donald Trump is a threat to women
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View ArticleSeven tips from an ‘alternative’ doctor that you shouldn’t take
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View ArticleiPod Across America: A diary project from every U.S. state
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View ArticleMia Herrera takes Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge
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View ArticleIn conversation with Marc Raboy
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View ArticleWhat do you mean, health care reform is complicated?
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View ArticleWhat Canadians can expect when crossing the Canada-U.S. border
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View ArticleBrian Pallister takes the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge
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View ArticleEverything Canadians need to know about the solar eclipse, in 100 seconds
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Why the Rebel’s yell won’t be stifled so quickly
Ezra Lavent. (Photograph by Chris Bolin) It’s never a good week if you have to loudly and repeatedly profess to the world that you’re not a white nationalist or racist, like Rebel Media “commander”...
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Why we need to regulate social media – before it’s too late
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Natasha Tusikov is an assistant professor of criminology at York University. This piece first appeared at The Conversation. In the past week,...
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Can you keep your kids safe watching YouTube?
YouTube has been under fire for exposing kids to harmful content. How can you keep your children safe and what are some safe viewing options? (Shutterstock) David R. Brake is a researcher and educator...
View ArticleThe Americans: The real-life Russian spies that inspired the FX show
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View ArticleYouTube shooting: A gunwoman who injured four is dead
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — A woman opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday, wounding four people before she shot and killed herself and prompted panic as employees hid and...
View ArticleYouTube’s plan to fight conspiracy theories only exposes a crisis of authority
YouTube has a credibility problem. On Google’s video-sharing service, amid the music videos, make-up tutorials, album reviews and cooking instructions, people peddle half-truths about climate change,...
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