James Hale

• Wattpad’s taking 5 million authors to school with new YouTube series (Exclusive)
• Grammy nominee Omar Apollo “started from zero” on YouTube

  Twenty-five-year-old Omar Apollo, who just released his debut album Ivory in April 2022, is one of 10 acts nominated for best new artist at the 2023 Grammys.

  
• Elon Musk says Twitter is now sharing revenue with creators. How does that work? No one knows.

  You'd think an announcement like this would be followed up by even the slightest scrap of information about how it's going to work, but nope! We have no idea if this policy is fully functional and rolled out or if the idea of it is just something Musk decided to tweet.

  
• YouTube DIY duo Vanwives sign with Night (Exclusive)

  The couple (who just hit 325,000 subscribers) can't reveal too much about what they and Night have in the works, but say they're "super excited to expand our lane and continue to do what we're doing, but bigger—and hopefully gaining a stronger community through it as well."

  
• YouTube Millionaires: Jeffrey Bui took a chance and went full-time on YouTube. Five months later, he’s gained a million subscribers.
• Twitter’s new policy will kill beloved content bots
• Pinterest just cut another 150 employees
• Creators On The Rise: Erin Miller’s nostalgia chic channel is a time warp to 2003
• Atrioc goes offline after getting caught with deepfakes of female content creators
• Creative Juice commits $25K to helping Black creators grow their businesses
• ‘Ashfall’ taps TikToker Michael Le for cosplay countdown series
• This Valentine’s Day, Snapchat is paying creators for their bad date horror stories