 Hello, and welcome to YouTube News for January 28, 2015. I'm your host, Alex, and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting news topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, three famous YouTubers interviewed the President of the United States, Barack Obama, on Thursday. The interview earned over 88,000 concurrent viewers when it was live, and generated over 700 million impressions for the YouTube Ask Obama hashtag on Twitter. Amongst traditional media outlets talked down about the interview, most viewers seemed to enjoy it, and believe the questions asked the President were thought-provoking. In case you missed it, and you want to see the interview for yourself, I'll leave a link in the description down below. Next up, it looks like the MCN Fullscreen is launching a film division to develop feature-length movies using YouTube stars as the actors. While there are a lot of details on this new development, it is said that all movies will be released across all screens, and even potentially in movie theaters. Do you think this is interesting, or something an audience would be interested in seeing? Do you think freedom should be interested in developing something similar to this? Tell us in the comments section down below, and we'll be sure to read them. Lastly, the new online video platform Vessel has launched into beta. For those of you who don't know, Vessel is a platform for creators to publish their content to their audience early for a subscription fee of $2.99 per month. They tout that their CPM will be in the $50 range for the first 72 hours after a video is released, but since the platform is so new it is yet to be seen. I was personally invited to test out the Vessel platform, and from what I've seen, it's very modern and well-designed, but it lacks a lot of the features that YouTube has, and it's rather closed off to creators that don't have millions of fans. So for now, I think YouTube is the best platform for both creators, small and large, and only time will tell whether or not Vessel actually becomes a competitor in this space. Anyways, that's it for me this week, guys. Tune in next Wednesday with the latest in YouTube news. Thanks for watching.