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Yogscast are set to give away more games for charity causes than they ever have before across two weeks of special fundraising livestreams
Read More »Jingle Jam 2022 will do its biggest gaming giveaway yet this December
10th annual Jingle Jam raises over $1m within first 24 hours
The festive Yogscast streamathon is back, supporting 14 charities across the UK and beyond
Read More »Yogscast CEO steps down amid further sexual harassment allegations
"I’m deeply embarrassed about this error of judgment"
Read More »Yogscast drops Matthew ‘Caffcast’ Meredith amid sexual harassment allegations
"He is no longer part of the Yogscast collective"
Read More »Yogscast’s Jingle Jam raises £3.8m for charity with Humble Bundle
Yogscast, the YouTube and livestream firm based in Bristol, raised a stunning £3.8m for charity with its annual ‘Jingle Jam’ livestream marathon in December. The event has now been running for six year, raising a total of £8.3m in total, with the festive event snowballing in size in recent years. …
Read More »Yogscast Jingle Jam cruises past last year’s total
Annual charity the Yogscast Jingle Jam has hit $3.4m, smashing the $2.57m raised in the 2016 event. Yogscast has partnered with Humble Bundle to sell an incredible $35/£26 bundle that offers $850 worth of games including sandbox survival sim Rust, Garry’s Mod, Gunpoint, Teslagrad, Chivalry: Medieval War, Guild Wars 2 …
Read More »Yogscast on YouTube vs Twitch and its future as a ‘full-blown media company’
There was a time when The Yogscast was synonymous with World of Warcraft and Minecraft Let’s Play videos. Since then, however, the Bristol-based production firm has grown into a full-blown media company with multiple brands across a variety of digital platforms. Not only does it have a network of over …
Read More »Exclusive: PlayStation Access to depart Yogscast
The team behind PlayStation Access, PlayStation UK’s award-winning YouTube channel, is to leave its current home at The Yogscast to form a new video-focused creative agency called We Are Reach, MCV can reveal. PlayStation Access will continue to be the team’s main focus at We Are Reach, but the move …
Read More »Yogscast raises over $2.5m in its 2016 annual charity month
Yogscast has announced it raised over $2.5m during its annual Jingle Jam charity month last December, making it the company’s most successful charity drive yet. $284,000 was raised on the first day alone, and the team quickly reached the 1m mark by the end of the first week. 86,578 donations …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Develop hires new editor
Jem Alexander joins from Riot Games,HTC hires new community manager and Yogscast bolsters Xbox On. Develop appoints new editor MCV’s sister title Develop has appointed Jem Alexander (pictured, right) as editor, joining from Riot Games. He spent nine months at the studio as an eSports writer and has recently worked …
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