YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
YouTube suspended comedian and actor Russell Brand on Tuesday from making money from videos posted to the social media platform, three days after British news organizations published an investigation in which several women accused Brand of sexual assault.
The channel is a potentially significant source of income for Brand, who was earning money through advertisements and paid promotions.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in Data ScienceVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Applied Business AnalyticsVisitNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Digital MarketingVisit A spokesperson for YouTube said in an email that Brand, whose channel on the platform has 6.6 million subscribers, was suspended for violating YouTube's «creator responsibility policy.»
«If a creator's off-platform behavior harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community,» the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson did not respond to an inquiry about how long the suspension would last.
Brand on Friday posted a clip to his channel denying what he called «serious criminal allegations.» That statement was released the day before The Times of London and Sunday Times of London newspapers, and Dispatches, a TV program, published their joint investigation in which four women accused Brand of sexual assault, including one accusation of rape.
Brand once was a TV and radio star in Britain and in 2007 published a bestselling memoir. He had a brief Hollywood career that included a role in the 2008 rom-com «Forgetting Sarah Marshall,» but he has lately pivoted to making online videos, running
