YouTube

YouTubers have survived cancellation before. Can Jimmy Donaldson do the same?

Long-time executive played key role in growth of search and video giant

IShowSpeed and KSI have been taking their YouTube audiences around Ireland. How have we left our children with these idiots to look up to?

In the world of content creation, only those who please the online algorithms survive. Adam B is one of them: his father’s background is in data science

When social media first took off, it was presented as a public commons, where people could exchange ideas and interests. What it eventually became couldn’t be further from that civilised concept

Television: Curly-haired Dutchman Jonathan Jacob Meijer is thought to have fathered some 1,100 children

Licensing negotiations come as music industry wrestles with legal and creative impact of artificial intelligence

Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes are implemented in a spirit of political correctness and woke

UK police are investigating a raft of complaints from women who have been surreptitiously filmed on nights out

Influencers like Andrew Tate and Myron Gaines feed on male insecurity by offering spurious advice on mental health, money-making and fitness, but extreme misogynistic content quickly follows

DCU research finds young males fed ‘toxic’ anti-feminist and other extremist content within 23 minutes

Unlike Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet’s YouTube has not been blocked in Russia

Spend some time with younger people and the evidence of dopamine culture is everywhere

Site claims it is ‘clearly not’ a video-sharing platform

Coimisiún na Meán said a forthcoming code will carry potential fines of up to €20 million and tackle harmful content, particularly that affecting children

Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), criticised for refusing to appear at Committee to answer questions about its response to last month’s riots in Dublin

Ireland enlisted EU officials to approach social media giants in first use of new ‘incident protocol’ but content in Irish language may have escaped attention

YouTube stops actor from making money on its platform while BBC pulls material that ‘now falls below public expectations’

Child of the accused climbed out a window and ran to a nearby house seeking help and food

Professor Paul Dunlop balances his professional life as a glaciologist with an intense investigation into the defective blocks that are steadily and irreversibly ruining his family home

Ask the Expert: Having a rule of ‘no phone until secondary school’ is a very reasonable goal, though frequently this decision is not just an individual family one

What I Do: Paddy Galloway (27) is a YouTube strategist from Carlow

Service grappling with issue, which was highlighted during pandemic

Kai Cenat's online pledge led to thousands packing Manhattan’s Union Square on Friday

Ask the Expert: ‘I worry about whether it is a good idea. Once the videos are on the internet they will be there forever’

Riga has become a hub for those trying to report on and into Russia, and for those keeping tabs on Kremlin disinformation. But even these Russia experts were taken by surprise by last weekend’s events

First episode of TV show about young people in Mogadishu tops 1.9 million views

Social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram are most popular among students who spend several hours a day online

Simon Jordan’s passionate plea to keep politics out of football seems a tad naive at a time when football and politics are practically the same thing

Could we pay a single supplier a subscription to access the internet and interact with all of its content, without any further charges or ads?

Susan McKay says there was a two-fold increase in complaints during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly over the coverage of Covid-19

It was necessary for society to communicate programmes and news during the Level 5 stages of the pandemic - Judge

Human rights group Global Witness submitted 10 ads containing extreme and violent hate against the LGBTQ+ community

Currach Books accused of turning St Brigid into a black woman

Dan Calladine, head of media futures at dentsu International, identifies key trends in media and marketing that will have a big impact in Ireland and explains what brands can do to adapt

Offaly-born gamer attracted more than one billion views, and advertisers paid an average of €7.32 per 1,000 views

Wellness rhetoric functions as a Trojan horse to smuggle in a more sinister agenda

For broadcasters and most streamers, live sport is a key way to attract big audiences – but Netflix is on a different pitch

Tate is the product of an online culture, the ‘manosphere’, that is grooming boys to not just to fear and hate women, but to loathe themselves

Whether you prefer big-budget spectacles or subversive indie splatter fests, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this Halloween