 Hello and welcome to YouTube News for July 1st, 2015. I'm your host Alex and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, YouTube will be introducing 10 new features to video creators. Some of these features include a forum for the creator community, an increase in the training videos available at the Creator Academy, and some changes to the YouTube comments section to filter out more negative and spammy comments. If you want to hear more, check out the link in the description for the video directly from YouTube themselves. Next up, it seems YouTube is struggling to fully launch its paid subscription service for its platform. A lot of the premium content creators on TV that YouTube has reached out to to use for their new subscription service for their shows already have contracts with platforms like Netflix or Hulu that prevent them from actually fully working with YouTube and its new ad-free subscription model. And it's also been reported that the YouTube channels that did get access to the paid subscriptions for their viewers didn't get many users to sign up and actually use the new service. So hopefully YouTube can figure out how to make this new service work so we can get a public launch by the end of the year. And last up, Daily Motion, a competing online video platform that was just acquired by French conglomerate Vivendi, the owners of Universal Music Group for $240 million. Vivendi hopes to use Daily Motion to help bring in more millennial viewers to Universal Music Group and their TV company Canal Plus. Daily Motion also recently launched Daily Motion Games, a live streaming platform for gamers, but there's no word on whether or not they will actually be continuing that effort after this acquisition. Anyways, that's it for me this week guys. Tune in again next Wednesday for the latest in YouTube news. Thanks for watching. Important and interesting topics revolving around the YouTube platform. Last up, YouTube has touted itself as the home of citizen journalism for a few years now, but they just recently launched something called YouTube Newswire.