James Hale

• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: A cashier for your thoughts?
• Killer Dinner took the Try Guys into a new era–one where they’re producing “the best shows we’ve ever made”

  "The last couple years have been really wonderful in terms of shows we've been making," Habersberger says. "They're the best shows we've ever made. Unlocking new cast members has allowed us to tell more stories, and expanded the types of stories we can tell."

  
• Jordan Matter, Michelle Khare, and Samir Chaudry are strategic advisors at a new creator education startup

  
• YouTube says Premium subscribers are “podcast super-users.” So it’s giving them more exclusive listening features.

  "In April 2026, YouTube Premium users watched over 800 million hours of podcasts," it wrote.

  
• Have you heard? PewDiePie drops vlogs, Spy Ninjas spends $25 million, and Jason Kelce gets a YouTube show
• Netflix and Spotify just paid $100 million to take Jay Shetty’s podcast off YouTube
• Explicit deepfakes are a monumental problem. Paris Hilton just published a TikTok series to combat them.
• Netflix enters a new frontier with real-time syndication of ‘The Breakfast Club’
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Movie moments
• UMG’s new TikTok and Spotify deals are what we should expect in the age of AI
• Spotify is doing creator memberships, and also AI-generated podcasts
• Podcasts raked in $9.2B last year, with video content “changing the picture.” But what makes a podcast a podcast?