Geoff Weiss

• 6-Year-Old Diana Gets 5 Billion Views A Month On YouTube. Pocket.watch Is Betting She Can Be A Billion Dollar Brand For Girls.
• David Dobrik Is Hiring As He Looks To Evolve ‘Disposable’ Camera App Into Full-Fledged Social Media Network

  David Dobrik is seeing the bigger picture with his Disposable camera app. Initially launched last Christmas and inspired by Dobrik’s Instagram account (3.5 million followers) featuring photos snapped on a disposable camera, the photo app touts a unique premise: it doesn’t allow selfies, always fires a flash, and forces users to wait a day for photos to ‘develop’ before seeing how they turned out.

  
• Lilly Singh Lands Primetime Comedy Show At NBC, Bringing Her YouTube Sketches To Primetime

  NBC is expanding its relationship with Lilly Singh -- and bringing the same kind of content that proliferates on her massive YouTube channel to primetime television.

  
• Ad Agency Mekanism Taps Curtis Roach For Back-To-School Safety Campaign On Triller

  Ad agency Mekanism is turning to burgeoning micro-video platform Triller to ease student anxieties in New York City, where schools are set to reopen in the fall. With 1.1 million public school students set to return to classrooms with different protocols and formats in place, the agency has launched a social media campaign to promote a new kind of greeting to replace handshakes, fist-bumps, and high fives.

  
• Amid YouTube Channel Exodus, Bon Appétit Taps Marcus Samuelsson As Advisor, Guest Editor
• YouTube Comes Out Swinging Against Proposed Australian Law Requiring It To Pay News Publishers
• Spotify Is Hiring A Head Of Audiobooks, Signaling Its Ambitions In The Space
• WarnerMedia Looking To Sell Anime Service Crunchyroll For Reported $1.5 Billion
• Jake Paul Signs With New Management — Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi
• Lele Pons To Chat ‘Best Kept Secrets’ With Anonymous Callers In New Spotify Podcast (Trailer)
• Brian Awadis, FaZe Clan’s Most-Followed Creator, To Headline Collective’s First Feature Film
• YouTube Reinstates Monetization For Steven Crowder 14 Months After Racist, Homophobic Harassment Of Carlos Maza