James Hale

• Want more tourists in your country? Pay IShowSpeed to come visit
• 40% of digital ads will be made with gen AI in 2026

  86% of companies told the IAB they either already do use gen AI or are planning to use gen AI to build their video ads. Their top two reasons for using it? (1) to create different versions of the same ad to target different audiences, and (2) to make "visual and style changes."

  
• Amid money troubles, Scholastic is seeking its next chapter on YouTube

  
• Roblox’s new initiative gives creators the legal A-OK to make games based on major IPs like Twilight, Saw, Squid Game, and Stranger Things

  Big news for Roblox game developers: If they've ever wanted to make games based on blockbuster IPs like Squid Game, Stranger Things, Twilight, and Saw (and not worry about entertainment lawyers breathing down their necks with cease & desists…), they now have their chance, thanks to Roblox's new IP licensing platform.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Chicken Shorts and Kill Tony, with bonus Prime Day
• Indie game creators are making millions selling their Roblox worlds
• Netflix’s latest digital creator pickup is webnovel ‘Solo Leveling’
• A new creator horror movie hits theaters, despite lawsuit from 50 Cent
• OpenAI’s next project is a browser to beat Google Chrome
• TikTok yanks funding from Canadian cultural institutions ahead of potential shutdown
• Meta wants more creators to pay for verification. So it’s giving them 12 months for free.
• Quackity’s back, and says he’s invented an app to let streamers speak “any” language