James Hale

• Creators On The Rise: How two talking corgis are taking over the internet
• YouTube bets big on shopping with buyable Beauty Festival, live creator-brand collabs

  Forget QVC and the Shopping Network—YouTube wants creators, viewers, and brands to turn to it for live product-picking.

  
• Vanessa Guthrie is leaving Snapchat

  “During her time with us, Vanessa has been a trailblazer for women in tech and has played an integral role in launching content for the mobile-first generation,” Snap said in a statement. “While we will miss her tremendously, we’re excited to see what she tackles next.”

  
• YouTube greenlights more ‘Retro Tech,’ ‘Recipe for Change’ in new Black Voices slate

  YouTube shuttered most of its original content efforts in January 2021, but said it would continue making productions funded by the Black Voices Fund and the YouTube Kids Fund.

  
• Night finds its first beauty creator: Safiya Nygaard (Exclusive)
• YouTube Millionaires: ZHC says if you’re a YouTuber and you’re not making Shorts content, you should start “right now”
• Creators On The Rise: The animators behind The Land of Boggs gave up trying to make it on YouTube. Then their channel got 300 million views.
• Instagram thinks the future of memes has “infinite possibilities.” That’s why it’s holding an official MemeCon.
• Whatnot wanted eyes on its ecommerce site. So it made 80,000 viewers work together to win $400,000 in Pokémon prizes.
• NFTs are coming to Instagram
• U.S. podcasts will rake in $2 billion this year, and $4 billion by 2024
• TikTok is replacing its Discover tab with Friends