James Hale

• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Footballers, fentanyl, Ghostface
• DOGE cut decades-old climate science departments. So 200 scientists are sharing their research on YouTube.

  
• Some streamers think breaking Twitch’s rules guarantees them big money on Kick. Kick’s CEO says nope.

  
• Heads up for the extremely online: Sydney Sweeney is selling her bathwater

  Following in the footsteps of Belle Delphine and Amouranth, Sweeney is selling "Sydney's Bathwater Bliss," a men's medium grit soap bar that Dr. Squatch swears is made with her actual bathwater.

  
• Kai Cenat’s Streamer University hit 27 million hours of watch time, with Amazon and Netflix (maybe) salivating
• The “sad beige influencer” lawsuit ended in dismissal with prejudice. Does that mean creators can’t sue?
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Forever chemicals, Kickstarter tech, court
• Have you heard? Kai Cenat takes streamers to school, Joe Rogan gets knocked, and TED has its own TikTok
• Creators accuse Twitch of “double-taxing” their income with supposed community-centered feature
• Disney’s suing YouTube to keep it from poaching a key exec. Will that actually work?
• For the first time, brands are spending the biggest chunk of their budgets on YouTube’s connected TV ads
• Publicis Groupe entered the creator space with a $500M Influential acquisition. Now it’s picking up Captiv8 too.