Two French teenagers get arrested for defacing popular music videos on Vevo’s YouTube page

Last month, Vevo’s YouTube account got hacked and had defaced a number of popular music videos. Now, two 18-year-old French citizens have been arrested in Paris in relation to this incident. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office, together with the Manhattan’s DA’s office (where Vevo is based), identified the two suspects as “Nassim B.” and “Gabriel K.A.B.” and are known by their respective online handles of “Prosox” and “Kuroi’ish.” The two have been charged with six and five criminal counts, respectively.

Authorities claim the two gained access to Vevo’s YouTube account to change the thumbnail images, video titles, and descriptions of videos like Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” and other popular videos from the likes of Taylor Swift, Shakira, Selena Gomez, to name a few. Vevo has since removed all these changes.

Source: Variety

Vevo personalizes your feed further using social media

Music video app Vevo hopes to bring you more of the music that you like with its latest update. The app now lets you link Spotify, Twitter, and YouTube to look for the artists you follow on those networks. You have the option to automatically import your favorite artists to help out the apps on curation. When you sign up to use Vevo, it asks you the genre of music you like and it’ll generate artists from there. When you pick your favorite artists, these will affect the next set of recommendations. The update is coming to Android first and then will be coming to iOS in the following week or so.

Source: The Next Web