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Paul Harrell, YouTube Gun Safety Advocate, Announces His Own Death in Video Message
Gun safety advocate and YouTube personality Paul Harrell announced his death in a prerecorded video, which was posted to the platform on Wednesday. Harrell was 58 years old. In the video, created on Dec. 20, Harrell sits on a snow-covered log near his home in Oregon and shares that while his pancreatic cancer diagnosis was […]
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YouTube Develops Tool to Allow Creators to Detect AI-Generated Content Using Their Likeness
One of the side effects of generative artificial intelligence tools proliferating is a surge of misuse. Actors, musicians, athletes, digital creators and others are seeing their likenesses digitally copied or altered, sometimes for less-than-noble reasons. The video platform YouTube says that it is developing new tools to tackle those problems, as well as the issue […]
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Hawk Tuah Girl Haliey Welch to Launch Podcast ‘Talk Tuah’ From Jake Paul’s Media Company
After making a splash on social media as “Hawk Tuah Girl,” Haliey Welch is continuing to shut down the haters as she lands a new gig. Welch is set to host the podcast Talk Tuah as part of the Betr banner, with the first episode debuting Sept. 10 on social, digital and audio platforms. The […]
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Apple Revamps Sports App Ahead of Football Season
Apple is ready for some football. The tech giant is revamping its Apple Sports app to take advantage of the looming NFL and college football seasons, most notably by adding live NFL and college football scores and a new “drive tracker,” but also with new features and functionality. Perhaps the most notable new feature: Support […]
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How ‘Gracie’s Corner’ Brought Black Rhythms to Preschool Content, With Help From Snoop Dogg and Big Freedia
The animated educational series Gracie’s Corner does numbers many kids’ shows would envy. Its YouTube channel boasts four million subscribers, with 100 million-plus monthly views and over 2.1 billion lifetime views. But to judge its success simply by its ratings is missing the point, say husband-and-wife creators Javoris “Jay” Hollingsworth and Arlene Gordon-Hollingsworth (new additions to this year’s Kids Entertainment Power […]
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AI Is Coming for Our Kids (or at Least Their TV Shows)
Last year, Kartoon Studios (then Genius Brands) unveiled two educational animated series that were almost completely created by artificial intelligence. ChatGPT wrote the scripts, with other AI tools generating the animation and voicing the characters. In one, Warren Buffett’s Secret Millionaires Club — intended to teach kids financial literacy — a 3D animated Buffett is […]
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‘Fortnite’ Returns to the iPhone (at Least in Europe), as Game Launches Marvel-Themed Season
After four years, the popular game Fortnite is back on iPhones — albeit only in Europe — right as the game launches a big Marvel-themed season. Epic Games said Friday that Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys are now available on iPhones in the E.U. and on Android phones worldwide, accessible via an Epic Games […]
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Rhett & Link Say They “Took a Big Creative Risk” With New Comedy Series ‘Wonderhole’
YouTube stars Rhett & Link celebrated their new comedy series with a premiere at the Academy Museum Wednesday night. The Good Mythical Morning co-hosts are expanding into the comedy space with a new series on their YouTube channel called Wonderhole. The series “combines docu-comedy, sketch comedy, original music, visual FX, celebrity cameos and outright bonkers […]
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He’s Got 83 Billion Views, But Can 12-Year-Old Ryan Kaji Open a Movie?
Twelve-year-old Ryan Kaji lives with his parents and younger twin sisters in a Honolulu neighborhood that is so idyllic it feels almost impossible. As you leave behind the tourist center of Waikiki Beach, the looming time share towers and overpriced T-shirt stores start to recede, making way for the winding roads and lush landscapes that […]
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Bowen Yang, Charlamagne Tha God, Rachel Maddow and More Reveal Their Podcasting Secrets
As part of its annual list of podcasting’s most powerful players, THR asked every honoree to fill out a questionnaire about the state of the industry, the challenges holding it back, their recording booth habits, and what they consider to be the most underrated podcast. A selection of our favorite responses below, from the likes […]
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“None of the Apps Are Great”: Top Podcasters Reveal Biggest Challenges
In coordination with The Hollywood Reporter‘s list of the most important people in podcasting, the industry’s leaders were asked to identify the sector’s biggest challenges, as the no-longer-so-new medium enters its third decade. And while podcasting seems to have bounced back from last year’s slowdown, there are still plenty of forces holding it back, including […]
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Al Pacino Just Watched ‘The Godfather’ for the First Time in Decades: “Humbling”
It’s the movie that changed the course of his life — and American cinema — but Al Pacino had not seen The Godfather in its entirety in decades. So when he invited me to watch Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 gangster epic with him and some of his friends at a small screening room in Hollywood […]
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“It’s for Sociopaths”: Top Podcasters Deeply Divided Over 1.5x Listening Speed
Listening to podcasts 50 percent faster is either a convenient way to maximize your pod consumption or an unforgivable insult to the craft, depending on who you ask. As part of its annual list of Podcast power players, THR polled the industry’s top practitioners about accelerated listening. The answers were more mixed than we expected, […]
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The Most Powerful People in Podcasting in 2024
Podcasting has entered its maturity, in which the eye-watering spending sprees of the early 2020s have given way to more rational dealmaking. But even amid last year’s relative slowdown, the sector saw several marquee acquisitions. Among those, SmartLess, hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, moved from Wondery over to SiriusXM in a […]
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Wondery Partners With Live Events Producer Mills Entertainment to Launch Live Tours
Wondery is going on tour. The premium podcast studio from Amazon has partnered with live events producer and promoter Mills Entertainment for a “multi-year strategic relationship” that will see the companies come together to mount live tours based on various genres across the Wondery universe. The first live offering to roll out from the collaboration […]
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11 Best AI Headshot Generators in 2024
This story was created in paid partnership with Al Pal. In any profession, having an internet presence is essential for doing business. Whether it’s a bio on your company’s About page, an online portfolio to share your best work or social media profiles, you need to display a professional photo of yourself front and center, […]
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