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Organizers MRC Live and Alternative Tubefilter unveiled nominees for the 2021 YouTube Streamy Awards on Wednesday. The list of noms range from up-and-comers to global stars including Bill Gates, Lil Nas X, Nick Jonas, Hailey Bieber, Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith.

Winners will be announced in December during a livestreamed ceremony. Additional creator appearances and show details are to come.

This year’s top nominees include MrBeast (with seven nominations) along with Emma Chamberlain, true crime and makeup maven Bailey Sarian, Bella Poarch, gaming collective FaZe Clan, comedic gamer Markiplier, and “kidfluencer” Ryan’s World. Other notable names include Addison Rae, Sunisa Lee and Dream.

The Streamy Awards honor creator excellence in online video content. More than half of this year’s nominations were first-time nominees.

Here’s the full list of noms:

Overall Awards

Creator of the Year

Addison Rae

Alexa Rivera

Avani Gregg

Bella Poarch

Brent Rivera

Charli D’Amelio...

Tré Melvin has been hospitalized after a severe car accident.  On Tuesday, a statement detailing his condition was made on the YouTube star's behalf on his Twitter.  "Early Monday morning, Tré was involved in a severe auto collision with his friend Kathereya," the statement read. "Both are currently hospitalized and have suffered brain injuries. While Tré is stable, Kathy is unresponsive. Their families ask that you please send prayers, blessings, and positive vibrations their way. They will come out of this stronger and more powerful. So it is."  The devastating news comes less than one month after the 26-year-old announced his departure from YouTube....

Joey Graceffa, Hannah Hart and LaurDIY are just three of the 75 “Featured Creators” that will attend Viacom’s 10th annual VidCon U.S.

The company announced its first round of Featured Creators on Tuesday morning, which includes VidCon founders John Green and Hank Green, along with Miles McKenna, Tré Melvin, Karina Garcia, Jon Cozart, MyLifeasEva, Ricky Dillon, Safiya Nygaard, and Rafi and Benny Fine. The first round slate is available for viewing at VidCon.com.

To commemorate VidCon‘s 10th anniversary, the company is also bringing back creators who were at the first VidCon, including some of the web’s earliest viral stars like Tay Zonday, who went viral after producing and singing an original he dubbed Chocolate Rain, a video that now has more than 100 million views. Other “Founding Featured Creators” will include Michael Buckley, Julia Nunes and Brittany Louise Taylor.

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Studio71 wants to mine podcasts for more ad dollars by extending the reach of its stable of YouTube content creators into a new medium.

Over the past two months, the digital-media company has launched 11 podcasts with creator partners. Those include “Fanboi with Harley Morenstein,” featuring Morenstein (pictured above), the host and creator of Epic Meal Time. Morenstein’s podcast launched last week and hit the top five podcasts on iTunes for the Games and Hobbies category. Other include “Kayln’s Coffee Talk,” “Don’t Mess with Christine Sydelko,” and “Sh*t They Don’t Tell You” with Nikki Limo and Steve Greene.

The opportunity for Studio71 is to take digital influencers and deliver ad-supported audio-content for millennial and Gen Z audiences (18-34), said CEO Reza Izad. Podcast audiences historically have skewed older than that younger demo.

“When we saw this large, fast-growing audio business growing in front of us we...

On Tuesday, YouTube hosted its first-ever stateside FanFest event -- where a slew of top creators gathered for meet-and-greets and live performances -- at Howard University in celebration of its 150th anniversary.

The event, organized by #YouTubeBlack -- an internal effort to support the platform’s black creator community -- featured performances from Alonzo Lerone, Amber’s Closet, Dainá: Dormtainment, Miles Jai, RandomStructureTV, Spoken Reasons, Summerella, Tré Melvin, TPindell, VanJess, and Daniel Caesar.

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Ten YouTube stars try to stay one step ahead of ravenous zombies during a simulated apocalypse in Fight of the Living Dead: Experiment 88. The new YouTube Red series recently premiered on BlackBoxTV, and you can now watch the entire first episode online for free.

“10 YouTube stars face the ultimate battle to survive as the zombie apocalypse begins. After being placed into the Conops experiment facility, the group must figure out how to survive the next 72 hours without any connection to the outside world. In the first challenge, they must get out of their holding cages to the safe area, but they accidentally leave someone behind. On their way back to the safe area, a zombie ambushes their first victim. The group is paranoid that Rahat’s a mole.

About Fight Of The Living Dead

In this intense and terrifying series Fight Of The Living Dead, 10 YouTube stars are thrown...

YouTube Red has premiered its latest original series -- a simulated zombie apocalypse reality competition titled Fight Of The Living Dead, featuring a who’s-who of digital superstars. On the show, the 10 contestants -- including VitalyzdTV, FouseyTUBE, Tré Melvin, and Brittani Louise Taylor -- must fight their way through an abandoned hospital overrun by zombies. Throughout the course of 72 hours, they must also complete various challenges.

The series is available on BlackBoxTV’s YouTube channel. The studio, which says it is “increasingly focused on virtual environments, and the implications of Vr, gaming, and 360 video,” is also behind The Fourth Door, a Joey Graceffa-starring series for Verizon’s go90 platform, as well as a prior Fight Of The Living Dead series that ran in April 2015 starring Graceffa, iJustine, PrankvsPrank’s Jesse Wellens, and more. YouTube Red’s Fight Of The Living Dead was produced by Alpine Labs and Revolver Picture Company.

Are you ready for one killer experiment? Below watch the trailer for the Fight of the Living Dead TV show, premiering on YouTube Red, Wednesday, August 17, 2016. The cast includes: Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (VitalyzdTV), Yousef Saleh Erakat (FouseyTUBE), Rahat Hossain (Magic of Rahat), Tré Melvin, Jc Caylen, Brittani Louise Taylor, Dennis Roady, Shanna Malcolm, Raya, and Brandon Bowen.In Fight of the Living Dead, these 10 YouTube stars are thrown into a simulated zombie apocalypse (as opposed to an actual one) and forced to fight their way through an abandoned hospital. YouTube says, "Pushed to their mental and physical breaking points, they’ll have to work together...or they’ll die together. No phones, no internet, no escape. Who will survive?"Read More…...

Ten YouTube stars try to survive a simulated zombie apocalypse in Fight of the Living Dead: Experiment 88, a new series that’s teased in a fresh trailer ahead of its August 17th premiere on YouTube Red.

“Watch 10 YouTube stars face the ultimate battle to survive as they fight their way through an abandoned hospital overrun by bloodthirsty zombies and reach their mental and physical breaking points in Fight Of The Living Dead that will debut exclusively on YouTube Red on August 17, 2016.

About Fight Of The Living Dead

In this intense and terrifying series Fight Of The Living Dead, 10 YouTube stars are thrown into a simulated zombie apocalypse and forced to fight their way through an abandoned hospital. Pushed to their mental and physical breaking points, they’ll have to work together…or they’ll die together. No phones, no internet, no escape. Who will survive?

The Contestants:

VitalyzdTV –www.