James Hale

• YouTube Rolls Out Personalized Video Recommendation Feed ‘New To You’
• YouTube Millionaires: Lucky Maker Hopes His ‘Minecraft’ Adventures Will Take Him To 50 Million Subscribers

  Kazakhstan-based Lucky Maker began uploading Minecraft gameplay clips to YouTube's TikTok competitor, Shorts, just six months ago. In those six months, his channel has soared to nearly one billion collective views and more than 1.8 million subscribers, and his daily uploads are still growing his channel at a rate of tens of thousands of new subscribers and tens of millions of views each week.

  
• TikTok Adds Fast-Forward, Rewind For Longer Videos

  Before now, the platform provided no way for folks to affect video playthrough. If they wanted to watch one specific part of a video again, they had to rewatch the entire clip. Rewatching in full isn’t necessarily a significant undertaking with, say, a five- or ten-second clip, but it can get obnoxious with a 30-second or minute-long video.

  
• YouTube, Emojam Partnership Lets Creators Reward Channel Members With Custom Sound-Enabled GIFs, Emojis (Exclusive)

  
• NFTs Made By Two “Synthetic” TikTokers Will Go On Sale At Christie’s This Week
• Creators On The Rise: Cam Casey Spent The Past Year Conquering TikTok And Snapchat. Now He’s Making His Move On YouTube Shorts.
• TikTok May Be Testing An In-House Cameo Competitor Called ‘Shoutouts’
• Individuals Now Spend More Time On TikTok Than YouTube, Facebook, Netflix–At Least On Android (Report)
• YouTube Is Letting Some Creators Set Custom Rules For Their Channel’s Comment Sections
• FaZe Clan Fires 1 Member, Suspends 3 More Over Alleged “Pump-And-Dump” Cryptocurrency Scheme
• TikTok Taps Longer Videos, Letting Users Film Up To 3 Minutes
• Creators On The Rise: Lisa Nguyen Has Always Loved Food. Now A Million People Are Watching Her Learn To Make It.