James Hale

• YouTube and Amazon partner to let creators sell a “curated catalog of highly requested and trending products”
• The BBC says it’ll pay £50,000 for YouTube-first documentaries

  
• Microdramas have the highest ad density of any app category–and user downloads have topped 1 billion

  Microseries apps had an ad density of 1,100 in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Asia-Pacific region, "making it the only category to achieve that level of density in three regions," Marketing Dive reports. In North America, microseries apps had an ad density of 977 per app.

  
• Twitch and Amazon facing class-action lawsuit over scraping streamers’ content without their consent

  "Content creators such as plaintiff and the class members will never be able to claw back the intellectual property unlawfully copied and used by defendants to train Amazon’s generative AI," Pandiscia's suit says.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Newcomers galore
• Dhar Mann is doing business with Disney
• Senators question TikTok over algorithm experiment that denied users protection from dangerous content rabbit holes
• Would you sacrifice 6 years of your life to spend 4 days playing GTA VI?
• Is Patreon planning to challenge YouTube and TikTok? CEO says the “current version of the web is a failed promise for creators and fandoms” amid rollout of 30 content tools
• YouTube is reportedly offering creators millions if they don’t sign deals with Netflix
• A new creator-financed indie horror is on the way: ‘Godmother,’ co-written by Alanah Pearce and financed by Jacksepticeye
• YouTube’s now counting public views from the “first frame,” hoping inflated numbers will help creators negotiate brand deals