James Hale

• Twitch’s new Hype Chat has a 70/30 revenue split
• Millionaires: How dad jokes got Dave Ogleton to a million TikTok followers

  Dave Ogleton is a dad of six, so he had it on pretty good authority that everyone loves (or at least gets a dry chuckle out of) a good dad joke.

  
• V Pappas is leaving TikTok

  They've been with the platform for the most tumultuous five years of its existence, having joined in 2018 as its general manager of U.S. operations.

  
• Creators on the Rise: A fortune teller convinced H Woo to go full-time on TikTok

  In college, H Woo saw a documentary about an illicit restaurant being run out of a campus apartment at the University of Southern California. His first thought was, I can do this.

  
• Streamers on the Rise: joshseki makes a place for anti-toxicity in gaming
• Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox just bought Smosh
• Loaded brings in former 100 Thieves advisor Irina Shames (Exclusive)
• Kick signs $100 million deal with xQc, signs Amouranth, gets one million new users
• On the Podcast: Logan Paul and KSI did it
• Twitch is letting some streamers go back to a 70/30 split. But are its requirements “unobtainable”?
• Millionaires: BookTok helped Ayman rekindle her love of reading. Now she uses her platform to boost authors.
• Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan want to get Trending with Gen Z