YouTube bans staged animal rescue videos

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• YouTube bans staged animal rescue videos.
• Vice Media layoffs.
• NBCU mulls a subscription-based video service.

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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2018.

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YouTube plans to ban videos showing staged animal rescues. The policy shift comes after the platform was found running ads from major brands on videos depicting animal cruelty.

• YouTube has been running ads from major brands on videos depicting animal cruelty, Lara O'Reilly reports.
• YouTube says it removed videos or stopped running ads on some of these videos.
• It also plans to ban staged animal rescue videos from the platform.

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Vice Media just laid off a handful of digital staffers

• Vice Media laid off a handful of top digital staffers on Thursday, Steven Perlberg reports.
• A spokesperson attributed the layoffs to a recent shift in the digital leadership team's makeup.
• The layoffs did not include anyone in editorial, a source said.

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Universal

NBCUniversal has discussed a new subscription video-streaming service separate from Peacock

• NBCUniversal has discussed a subscription streaming service under the name "Universal Stream," Claire Atkinson reports.
• NBCU has its Peacock streaming service, but the brand isn't well known around the world.
• Such a new service could cost billions to launch, though.

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