Recent Headlines

• Your local TV station wants to make the news look like YouTube

  Will people turn to TV news over social media if the TV news looks like a social media video? A station in KC is experimenting with that idea.

  
• The BBC is giving production companies £600,000 to make content for YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch

  On the heels of announcing a deal with YouTube to make original content aimed at the platform's Gen Z viewers, the BBC has unveiled a shortlist of 12 companies that could receive a slice of funding from its first digital accelerator initiative.

  
• Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are everywhere, but not at the Super Bowl

  The Super Bowl will continue the NFL's season-long ban on ads for prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.

  

• YouTube is making people pay up for background play
• Youth social media bans are spreading across the world. Spain’s will be an important case study.
• Minecraft wants kids to get into good trouble with civil rights roleplays
• AI isn’t just changing where we search. It’s changing how we search.