James Hale

• Honey’s business model is “an adpocalypse all day every day” for creators. LegalEagle just filed a class action suit to get them paid.
• Tubefilter’s official guide to 1 Billion Followers Summit 2025

  Next month, over 5,000 content creators and industry professionals will gather in Dubai for the third annual 1 Billion Followers Summit. This year's event (running Jan. 11-13 at the Museum of the Future, the Emirates Towers, and the Dubai International Financial Centre) is expected to be 1BFS' biggest one yet, with over 250 speeches, panels, workshops, and more.

  
• Cucumbers, cottage cheese, and probiotic soda: TikTok’s impact on grocery store shelves

  We've written before about how TikTok food hacks have become popular in the fast food world—enough that some restaurants have officially partnered with influencers to introduce new menu items based on their viral eats. (And enough that TikTok launched its own dining concept where people could get creators' inventions delivered.) But in 2024, TikTok's food trends measurably pushed consumers toward specific foods in grocery stores, too.

  
• Should sleep streams be banned? One platform thinks so.

  "Sleep isn't meant for Parties! To ensure fairness for streamers earning Parti Points, static streams of all types are banned," Parti tweeted Dec. 18. "Streamers must interact with their audience to continue streaming and earning Parti Points."

  
• You can now build your next car on TikTok
• YouTube and CAA want to make sure creators are safe from deepfakes
• The Twitch VOD situation is crazy
• Blue-collar creators are both inspirational and aspirational. They’re pioneering a new era of content creation.
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Mark Rober, Matthew Beem, and Moriah Elizabeth
• Dentistry is a hard business. Dr. Simone Ellis has made $150,000 on Kajabi by helping others learn to survive it.
• Snapchat is changing how creators earn money–and making it harder for them to start
• CoryxKenshin disappeared from YouTube 18 months ago. Now he’s back–with a big announcement.