James Hale

• YouTube’s getting rid of Simsim, but says it’s still investing in ecommerce
• YouTube Millionaires: Cleaning, organizing, couponing, creating…Kallie Branciforte does it all. But first, she needs some coffee.

  Kallie Branciforte assures us she "used to be a hot mess."

  
• ‘Fortnite’ is giving 40% of its revenue to creators

  At its 2023 Game Developers Conference March 22, Epic laid out its vision for what it calls the "Creator Economy 2.0"--a system that involves the Unreal Editor, which Epic introduced this week to allow players to design, develop, and publish their own locations and games within Fortnite.

  
• Creators On The Rise: Skaya Siberian is a “part-time wolf, full-time princess”

  Thanks to the internet's enthusiasm for Skaya, Skaya's Mom has been able to make content her full-time job--and keep an ever-growing record of Skaya's presence in her life.

  
• Twitch says it’s improving discoverability
• Amazon’s latest layoffs to hit Twitch
• ByteDance’s CapCut hits 200 million active users
• Eight finance YouTubers named in $1 billion lawsuit over FTX promotion
• Dream is headed to VidCon
• Emmett Shear is leaving Twitch
• YouTube Millionaires: Guga is doing some “crazy stuff” on his newest channel—and it’s paying off
• Michelle Khare and Andrea Botez to duke it out at Creator Clash 2 (Exclusive)