Geoff Weiss

• NFT Startup Pixel Vault Raises $100 Million To Build A Decentralized Entertainment Giant
• Valkyrae Scrapped Her Skin Care Venture Over Blue Light Claims. Now Addison Rae’s Giving It A Go.

  Valkyrae is a bit flummoxed about another creator’s moves in the skin care sphere, following a kerfuffle that emerged around her now-defunct cosmetics venture, RFLCT.

  
• YouTube Made $8.6 Billion In Ad Revenue Last Quarter, Calls Future Commerce “A Whole Other Layer Of Opportunity”

  For last year’s fourth quarter, during the ever-lucrative holiday shopping season, YouTube said it sold a massive $8.6 billion in ads – roughly 25% above the $6.9 billion that the company did in the final quarter of 2020.

  
• TikTokers Want To Copyright Their Dance Moves. Westbrook Is Making A Movie About It.

  Westbrook Media, the digital content division of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s multimedia outfit, has partnered with Logitech on a short film for Black History Month. 

  
• YouTuber Ice Poseidon Appears To Admit To $500,000 Pump-And-Dump Crypto Scheme Conducted On Fans
• YouTube TV Launches Referral Program
• Valkyrae Re-Signs With YouTube Gaming
• Spotify, Joe Rogan Respond To Mounting Uproar Over Vaccine Misinformation
• Spotter Spends Millions to License YouTubers’ Back Catalogs. Rob Gabel Just Joined the Team.
• Airrack Raises $3 Million For YouTuber Film School
• MrBeast Has Gone Full Willy Wonka
• Twitch Forges Pact With UMG, Continuing To Improve Its Music Industry Cred