James Hale

• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: MrBeast and a Martian helicopter
• Hollywood studios were claiming AdSense revenue from YouTube’s deluge of AI slop. Now what?

  
• Fundmates partners with 6 companies + Nick Nimmin to give creators biz dev blitz

  Fundmates, a fintech platform that gives content creators growth capital injections as well as business development and production support, has partnered with six creator economy companies and creator educator Nick Nimmin to provide more resources to its partner creators.

  
• Haliey Welch is free to go over $HAWK fiasco, SEC says

  After months of investigation into "Hawk Tuah girl" Haliey Welch's disastrous $HAWK crypto launch, the SEC has closed the case without finding her at fault, and without pursuing any sanctions or fines.

  
• YouTube Premium is letting some viewers delete ads for their friends
• Have you heard? Platforms make monetization moves as YouTube golf goes brrr
• Spotter just took YouTube’s biggest creators to its own Upfronts
• “Twitch for sports” platform raises $22 million so leagues will let its creators stream games
• Someone paid $207 million to turn Napster metaverse
• MrBeast, Lady Gaga, and Brittany Broski to headline YouTube’s fandom-forward Brandcast
• No, Ashton Hall isn’t sponsored by Saratoga Water. But soon he might be.
• Good Good just got $45 million to grow its YouTube golf empire