NextVR has raised $80 million in Series B funding mostly from Asian investors as the company looks to establish a worldwide footprint for its platform for sports, concerts and other live events.

With lots of young fans, and an easy way to communicate with them, a few YouTube Vloggers have used their influence to get sexual favors. For underage fans, that's dangerous for them and serious trouble for the YouTube star. 

With some low Nielsen ratings for the first days of the games, NBC is hoping that streaming is where's it's at, and where the missing viewers are too.

Though YouTube Red has been around since last October, the pay version of YouTube still feels a need to explain itself to TV critics meeting in Los Angeles. They're usually more involved with broadcast and cable fare. 

 SheKnows Media BlogHer Conference in LA this weekend will let five female entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of judges – and GoDaddy will be live-streaming the event as a native ad unit.

Fast Company gives tips about how to watch the Rio games via streaming and notes, "In the United States, NBC has partnered with Instagram and Facebook, Snapchat and BuzzFeed to offer video clips from the Olympic Games—a list that conspicuously excludes Google and Twitter."

Maybe we're stretching a little But a Wall Street Journal podcast features Hearst Digital President Troy Young talking about Cosmopolitan's Discover page on Snapchat that gets an amazing six million viewers a day, which he brags "is the size of a cable channel. It's enormous." So yes, size does matter.

Gaming content maker Machinima has a three-pronged approach to its business; earlier this week it made a deal with Amazon Prime which will begin offering the app to its subscribers. 

For now, Facebook Live says it is letting a small group of publishers insert the ads directly into their Live broadcasts. They can appear five minutes into the video and last up to 15 seconds. 

Advertisers aren't impressed with the stand-alone app from Verizon, though they say it's also new enough that the jury is still out.