Washington: YouTube is going to scale back a significant portion of YouTube Originals, which produced original content including scripted series, educational videos, and music and celebrity programming. As per The Verge, going forward, the company will only fund originals in the YouTube Kids Fund and the Black Voices Fund, a program created in 2020 that committed USD 100 million to …
Susanne Daniels, YouTube’s global head of originals, inside the YouTube sound stage at the Spruce Goose Hangar in Los Angeles in 2019. YouTube, long known for its user-generated videos, began paying for Hollywood productions and launched shows including “Cobra Kai,” a spinoff of 1984’s hit movie “The Karate Kid;” and series that highlighted the video giant’s stars like Liza Koshy …