The Starcount Social Star Awards are on May 23 and they're getting serious: YouTube stars help Jesse Heiman become a YouTube great through the "most epic montage ever montaged." You know it's on when the montage happens. Don't think for one moment it isn't on with a montage.

SourceFed is getting geeky. One of the most successful channels to come out of YouTube’s $100 Million Originals Initiative just announced it’s launching a spinoff channel targeted towards the not-so-niche anymore nerd demographic. SourceFed Nerd is slated to premiere May 20 and feature the familiar Streamy Award-winning faces of SourceFed (including Elliott Morgan , Joe Bereta , Lee Newton , Meg Turney , Steve Zaragoza , and Trisha Hershberger , and cameos by SourceFed creator and citizen number zero of the Phil DeFranco Nation, Phil DeFranco ) talking about things tech, comic book, anime, movies, apps, collectibles, toys, board games, R2D2 dresses , and more

Google wants their new VP9 codec to be royalty-free, but patent disputes could prevent that from happening. Meanwhile, VP9 is supposed to have double the image quality using half the compression of H.264. In other news: H.264 could be H.265 soon, so there's that

Peanuts Worldwide, a new company that owns the rights to Charles Schultz's "Peanuts" comic strip, has signed Khoa Phan to create 12 "Peanuts" Vines as the company hopes to enter Charlie Brown and the gang back into public consciousness as a movie is planned for 2015.

Smosh is closing in on becoming the first YouTube channel to reach eight digit subscribers, and one of the duo’s secondary channels is now looking to use their influence to power an entire network of creators.

You got an account in good standing? 1,000 subscribers? You're set up with SMS verification?

In terms of volume of traffic to US homes, video is the star of the internet with over half of mobile and fixed data usage attributable to video content alone. Netflix and YouTube lead the way, of course, with YouTube now responsible for over 20% of mobile downstream traffic in North and Latin America and Europe.

If Youtube wanted to solicit any valuable information they would break down where the views are directed towards. As youtube continues to blossom, I feel less interested in what the company can provide to me as a hosting service for my explanatory videos.

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YouTube's Comedy Week looks like it might be really funny. But they're not relying on merely spreading the word: they've got videos chock full of stars promoting the event. From The Lonely Island to Sarah Silverman to Epic Meal Time to even Arnold Schwarzenegger.