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Anthony Padilla is turning his flagship I Spent A Day With YouTube series into a podcast in collaboration with Rooster Teeth’s podcast network, The Roost.

The Roost will work to expand distribution and head up sales for the series across all distribution platform. In addition to Padilla, The Roost reps podcasts from fellow YouTube creators like Garrett Watts and Andrew Siwicki (Sweet Boys) and Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar (Unfiltered).

I Spent A Day With sees Padilla sitting down with groups from marginalized communities or those who have undergone traumatic situations -- those suffering from dissociative identity disorder (Did), for instance, or coronavirus survivors. On YouTube, the series has garnered 100 million views to date. And last month, Padilla formed his own production company, Pressalike Productions, which oversees I Spent A Day With and will also develop an original programming slate. Pressalike's first feature-length documentary is I Maid A Mistake...

Garrett Watts and Andrew Siwicki, two long-time friends who both rose to fame as affiliates of beleaguered YouTube star Shane Dawson, have launched a new joint venture: the podcast Sweet Boys.

Watts was a familiar presence in Dawson's videos who subsequently became a massive YouTube star in his own right, while Siwicki served as the videographer and editor on several of Dawson’s hit docuseries -- ultimately emerging as an on-camera character, as well.

Sweet Boys is a nod to the guys' affability and their desire to be "anti-shock jocks," per a press release. The show is being produced by Rooster Teeth’s podcast network, The Roost, which reps a whole host of creator-led podcasts, including Zane & Heath: Unfiltered. Each week, Watts and Siwicki will deliver their perspectives on life and the internet -- in both audio and video form. The series launches Nov. 18 on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else...

After roughly a year of anticipation and hours of docuseries content -- including boundary-breaking glimpses into the machinations behind today’s makeup industry and countless emotionally-charged moments of both awe- and cringe-inducing vulnerability -- Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star’s Conspiracy Collection is here.

The makeup range, which serves as the holiday outing for Jeffree Star Cosmetics (Jsc) -- in an increasingly influencer-dominated makeup market -- launches on Friday and was inspired by Dawson’s abiding love for conspiracy theories, which he has covered on his channel for years. The collection was revealed in the sixth episode of The Beautiful World Of Jeffree Star, which has amassed 7.6 million views since being posted last night and is standing tall at No. 1 on YouTube's 'Trending' tab.

The flagship item in the collection is the $52, 18-shade Conspiracy palette, which has no cohesive color story but does boast several cleverly-named shades inspired by...

Shane Dawson is making the transition from acclaimed documentarian to beauty entrepreneur.

As part of his next docuseries, another collaboration with Jeffree Star for which the concept has not been officially revealed -- although it appears as though Dawson may be trying his hand at being a beauty guru -- the YouTube vet will be creating his own makeup palette with Star's Jeffree Star Cosmetics. While it has long been rumored that Dawson and Star were collaborating on a product launch, Star confirmed the news at a public appearance in California over the weekend to cut the ribbon on a new Morphe store in Sacramento (see below).

Dawson joined Star on the trip -- decked out in a Jeffree Star-branded tracksuit on a private jet, naturally -- as Dawson's co-producer Andrew Siwicki tagged along to chronicle the voyage, including swarms of fans that greeted Star in Sacramento. This marked the...

After launching his channel roughly a decade ago, Shane Dawson remains one of the platform’s most influential creators today, with long-form programming that has served to re-imagine the bounds of what a YouTube video can be.

On Saturday, Dawson ticked off his latest accomplishment, surpassing 20 million subscribers -- a feat he celebrated with cake and diet rootbeer while slogging away at his next project, Conspiracy Series. “My heart is gonna burst,” he tweeted. “Thank you guys for supporting my channel for so long and for changing my life. Editing today is gonna be even more inspiring.” He also thanked his filmmaking partner Andrew Siwicki and his boyfriend Ryland Adams.

Dawson wasn’t the only creator to hit 20 million subscribers over the weekend -- a feat that has only been managed by 76 million channels to date: Olajide 'Ksi' Olatunji also crossed the milestone yesterday. Olatunji has been on YouTube for roughly eight years,...

We have the winners of the eighth annual Streamy Awards, which were doled out tonight at the Beverly Hilton and livestreamed on YouTube.

The eponymous series from comedy quartet The Try Guys, who also hosted tonight’s trophy show, won the Audience Choice: Show of the Year prize, and Shane Dawson won the Audience Choice: Creator of the Year prize. Also among tonight’s winners was Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls, in the Sports category.

David Dobrik came into the night with a leading six nominations for the Streamy Awards, which recognizes athletes, celebrities, gamers and creators in the online space who have established themselves as emerging talent that have broken new ground and utilized digital platforms to entertain, educate and inspire on a massive scale. Veteran creator Casey Neistat and the show Escape the Night were next with five noms each.

Here is the complete list of winners at the 2018 Streamy Awards,...

The speculation was on point: YouTuber Shane Dawson’s next investigative series will focus on YouTube megastar and merch factory Jake Paul.

Dawson, who has also done exposé docuseries about TanaCon and, most recently, Jeffree Star, today tweeted a minute-long teaser for the eight-part series The Mind of Jake Paul, revealing it will begin airing Sept. 25.

Dawson’s trailer opens with a splashy compilation of Paul’s infamous antics, which often feature physical stunts, fire, and general destruction. “This is gonna be a nightmare,” Dawson says in the next clip, right before the trailer cuts to a clip of Paul howling.

However, what may most intrigue fans is the trailer’s very ending, where Dawson hints The Mind of Jake Paul may be more than meets the eye. When someone off-camera asks him what he’s most worried about, Dawson mumbles, “That he’s gonna be mad when he finds...

Shane Dawson is hard at work on his next YouTube docuseries, he says -- although unlike with past projects, the 30-year-old has kept his current subject under wraps.

That hasn’t stopped online sleuths from speculating that Dawson is shadowing the notorious YouTube star Jake Paul. In July, conceding that he “knows it’s controversial,” Dawson tweeted that, “the ups and downs of Jake Paul’s life and persona is something I would Love to see from the inside.” To this, Paul promptly responded, “Let's do it.” Given that Paul has earned a reputation for being something of an public nuisance -- having been in the subject of several lawsuits for his over-the-top pranks and destructive antics -- fans were dubious about the team-up.

The initial courtship on social media took place back in July, however, before Paul’s high-profile win in the boxing ring against Deji Olatunji. More recently,...