Entities/Platform/YouTube

YouTube

Platform
last seen in coverage Oct 15
60
Wire items · since Feb 18
0
Sourced transactions
0
Projects
9
Months active
15
Multi-source stories

What they buy

No transaction involving YouTube is established by a headline yet.

2 records flagged as deal coverage could not be tied to YouTube, a named project, a role and a transaction from their headlines; they are not counted here and are listed with sources under Unresolved.

Slate

No project is tied to YouTube by a headline that states its role yet.

Key people · from coverage

Names as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design.

Kane ParsonsNamed in coverage6i · 0tx
Conan O'BrienNamed in coverage4i · 0tx
James WanNamed in coverage4i · 0tx
Curry BarkerNamed in coverage4i · 0tx
Mark ZuckerbergNamed in coverage3i · 0tx
Bill KramerNamed in coverage3i · 0tx
Jason BlumNamed in coverage3i · 0tx
MarkiplierNamed in coverage3i · 0tx
Neal MohanNamed in coverage2i · 0tx
Brennan Lee MulliganNamed in coverage2i · 0tx
Dylan ClarkNamed in coverage2i · 0tx
Brendan CarrNamed in coverage1i · 0tx
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL YOUTUBE COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 1 tracked title

Grosses as reported — “via” badge = released by another studio.

Obsession
latest: “$260 million worldwide” (worldwide) as reported — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

2
FEB
17
MAR
1
APR
13
MAY
9
JUN
3
JUL
3
AUG
9
SEP
3
OCT
WIRE ITEMSSOURCED TRANSACTIONS

Works with · top 8 of 25

Tap a row to expand the shared record.

CounterpartyItemsTransactions
NetflixPLAT 160
▸ shared record
DisneyCO 100
▸ shared record
ParamountCO 100
▸ shared record
ObsessionTITLE 90
▸ shared record
BackroomsTITLE 90
▸ shared record
SonyCO 70
▸ shared record
TikTokPLAT 60
▸ shared record
HuluPLAT 60
▸ shared record

Transactions · 0 sourced

One row per transaction; reports of the same transaction are merged under it. Dates are when ScreamWire first archived a report. Amounts appear only as the source phrased them.

No transaction established by a headline yet.

Unresolved · 2 deal-flagged records not counted

ScreamWire’s classifier tagged these as deal coverage, but the headline does not establish YouTube, a named project, YouTube’s role and the transaction. They are excluded from every count on this page and kept, with their sources, for review.

Sep 13 After 28.7 Million Views and a Six-Figure Deal, Kevin Cate Unveils ‘Birthday Flight’
company not named in headline“six-figure”
Dread Central
Aug 25 ‘The Attentionist’: ‘You’ Author To Direct Lakeside Slasher Series For YouTube
no stated transaction between entity and project
Bloody Disgusting

Recent mentions · 10 of 58

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 60 wire items (Feb 18 → Oct 15) matching YouTube, deduplicated by URL (0 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 1.8% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.

What counts as a transaction. A row appears under Transactions, Slate or What they buy only when the publisher’s headline names YouTube, names the project, and states YouTube’s role in a transaction (bought, set up, developing, ordered, distributing, hired or cast for…). A company mentioned alongside a film is not enough, and neither is a classifier tag. Reports of the same transaction are merged; separate transactions on one project, such as a set-up and a later casting, stay separate. 2 deal-flagged records did not meet the test and are listed under Unresolved.

Source material and medium are recorded only when the headline states them; otherwise “not stated”. Dates are when ScreamWire first archived a report, so a resurfaced older story can carry a later date; reviewed exceptions are listed in the repository’s record-review file.

Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.

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