James Hale

• DBA just launched a UGC division (Exclusive)
• Viral Nation’s going 360 with new creator representation execs

  Content creator-focused marketing and tech company Viral Nation has brought in three new executives to expand its talent management division.

  
• TikTok’s reportedly figuring out how to pay creators more for their content

  
• Nick Symmonds’ new YouTube series will pay you $25,000 to do the impossible

  Symmonds, a two-time track and field Olympian whose fitness-focused YouTube channel recently crossed one million subscribers, spent the past three months and $100,000 building what he calls the "Impossible Obstacle Course."

  
• Hasan Piker raises $1.3 million for earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria
• Jay Shetty’s new talent agency says it will help creators “unleash their inner greatness”
• Creator Ink launches new animation studio for YouTubers
• YouTube Millionaires: Aquarium Info’s swimming transformation from niche blog to video empire
• Creators On The Rise: Artist Scott Christian Sava broadcasts live from his very own hobbit hole
• Studio71 signs the Stokes Twins for ad partnership
• YouTube’s selling its masthead one hour at a time
• WME taps Twitch, Team Liquid alums to be esports talent agents (Exclusive)