YouTube Goes for Flash With Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande at NewFrontWho can think about offensive content when there's a pop star on stage?

[Collection]Things got musical and a little meta at YouTube’s NewFront presentation at Radio City Music Hall. What started as a staid talk by chief executive officer Susan Wojcicki — who stressed the Google affiliate’s dedication to removing the “violative content” that’s become a bigger issue for advertisers over the last year as they see their brands cropping up inside of and next to videos and comments that promote violence, hate speech or are just generally obscene — morphed into a show of “razzle dazzle” that could have impressed John Kander. First, somewhere between 100 and 200 fans who had gathered outside of Radio City, apparently for a glimpse of popular YouTube personalities, were brought in to gather around the stage. Then out came Tyler Oakley, who has eight million YouTube followers and more than 650 million collective views, eliciting cheers from the audience and seemingly little recognition from the hundreds of advertisers and brand representatives in the seats. Oakley spoke of the “perfect” brand “alignments” he’d had with 23 and Me and Procter & Gamble before the stage was taken over by Rudy Mancuso, another popular YouTuber who played a variety of instruments, which followed something of a live video montage that included

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