James Hale

• ByteDance Buys Up VR Maker Pico For Reported $775 Million
• DrLupo Signs Exclusive Livestreaming Deal With YouTube Gaming

  DrLupo, who signed an exclusive livestreaming deal with Twitch in 2019, has forged a new deal that’ll see him broadcasting only on YouTube.

  
• Digital Events Platform Moment House Closes $12 Million Round To “Build The Metaverse”

  Moment House CEO Arjun Mehta said the round “allows us to execute on our ambitious project roadmap, which involves deepening the consumer social experience, and on the supply-side, opening up the platform so that any creator in the world can easily make a Moment.”

  
• TikTok Wants Users To Stop Doing The Milk Crate Challenge, Please

  Users who try to search for #milkcratechallenge and #cratechallenge are served a “No results found” notification, along with a warning that the hashtag “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.”

  
• JoJo Siwa Joins ‘Dancing With The Stars’ As Half Of Series’ First Same-Sex Duo
• YouTube Millionaires: Tim Dodd Takes A Million Everyday Astronauts To SpaceX And Beyond
• GIPHY Collaborates With (And Pays) Creators As Part Of Its New ‘Creators Club’
• Bright Raises $15 Million Round Led By Guy Oseary And Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures
• TikTok’s Testing 10-Minute Uploads (Report)
• Creators On The Rise: Maddie Goetz Hacks Her Way To Great Eats—And Onto Dunkin’ Donuts’ Menu
• OnlyFans Says Never Mind On NSFW Ban
• Facebook Reopens Applications For Its $10 Million Black Gaming Creator Program