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Viacom today confirmed it’s acquiring digital media company AwesomenessTV, whose network reaches 158 million subscribers and approximately 300 million monthly views. The news follows a report from earlier this week…

Viacom acquires Gen Z digital media company AwesomenessTV

Awesomeness, the digital media company programming content for a young, YouTube-obsessed audience, is getting into news. The company announced a new project called Awesomeness News. The editorial brand will focus…

Awesomeness is launching a news division aimed at Gen Z

Consumer watchdog groups, CCFC, Public Citizen, and the Center for Digital Democracy, are again targeting the deceptive advertising practices of “influencer marketing” in a new complaint filed with the FTC on…

FTC complaint alleges Google, Disney & others profit from deceptive ads aimed at kids

Remember MCNs? Those quaint multi-channel networks — aggregators of YouTube channels — that generally focused on a specific vertical audience? In the past year or so, something curious happened –…

Whatever happened to MCNs?

Verizon this morning has made another move to ramp up its media business, and specifically, bring new content to its mobile video streaming service, go90. The company (and AOL parent, which…

Verizon buys a stake in AwesomenessTV to bring exclusive videos to its streaming service go90