James Hale

• Jerma’s up to bat with his latest high-concept livestream
• TikTok’s infamous pink sauce is hitting grocery store shelves

  The viral condiment’s creator, Chef Pii, has signed with Dallas-based culinary company Dave’s Gourmet to put her sauce on “e-commerce platforms, in restaurants and on major food retailers’ shelves.”

  
• YouTube Millionaires: HopeScope “niched down” as YouTube’s activewear queen. Now she’s stretching her creative horizons.

  "Niching down" helped establish Allen as YouTube's activewear queen--but stretching out to a broader audience is lifting her channel to the next level.

  
• YouTube’s now auto-watermarking Shorts

  
• UTA has signed its first VTubers
• Creators On The Rise: Jordan Matter has been YouTubing for years. Now his daughter Salish is changing his channel.
• Ahead of the midterm elections, TikTok reminds users it’s not cool with paid political ads
• “TikTok Music” might actually become a thing
• Snapchat already has 1 million people paying for Plus
• Jonathan Skogmo and Lee Essner are leaving Jukin, “confident” it’s in good hands
• Facebook says it’s testing encryption that’ll actually keep users’ DMs private
• If you know a teenager, there’s a 95% chance they use YouTube