Variety is reporting that YouTube will be acquiring the video game streaming company Twitch to the tune of $1 billion. You can read a report from Variety below after the jump.
BIG news!
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Do you remember this? YouTube’s first video? WOW.
Today in Internet history: YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video “Me at the zoo” to the website on April 23, 2005, at 8:27 p.m, according to the description of the video, which now boasts more than 14 million views.
Top 10 Takeaways from Digital Hollywood Fall 2013 ‹ Studio System News:
A great write-up of the Fall Digital Hollywood!
What was your favorite takeaway?
Amazon Is Courting YouTube Networks for Short-Video Push: 
Amazon has pitched online video networks to distribute their short-form videos through the e-commerce company’s a la carte Instant Video service.
Not content to contend only with Netflix and Hulu for long-form video content like movies and TV shows, Amazon is exploring a push into the short-form territory dominated by YouTube.
YouTube Gets A Secret Retro Look For #GeekWeek:
This is so cool.
YouTube is prepping the world for its upcomingGeek Week (which begins on August 4) and it’s going retro!
YouTube revealed a secret search term users can type into the site that will return an old school, retro look.
Bedrocket Takes Stake in YouTube Channel 'What's Trending':
Digital Hollywood Content Summit participant, “What’s Trending" has partnerned with Bedrocket Media Ventures, an Internet media firm and YouTube multichannel network operator, in a seven-figure investment.
What’s Trending is a YouTube channel whose daily talkshow that generates more than 2 million views per month. It airs daily on YouTube at 3 p.m. Eastern.
Internet talkshow is hosted by Shira Lazar and produced by Lazar and Damon Berger.
Check out Digital Hollywood Content Summit speaker, Josh Bednarsky’s latest series, Crowned, where “Being a Princess is No Fairytale.”
Here’s a brief synopsis:
In the MAGICAL WORLD of PARTY PRINCESSES, there lived a young fair maiden named Macey. She is a damsel in distress (“getting evicted from her apartment”) and needs a job fast! Her best friend, Vianka, already a gainfully employed Party Princess, helps her get a job with her Princess company, Crowned Entertainment. Together, the Princesses are dispatched to parties to bring beauty, mirth, and magic, to the birthday children of the world.
Check out their IndieGogo page to learn more and donate if you can.
The series starts airing this summer, so subscribe to the YouTube channel and follow on Tumblr to keep up with their shenanigans.
Congrats Josh! We can’t wait.
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