Tubefilter Staff

• The last thing creators add, the first thing viewers notice: Why Adobe is introducing music, speech, and sound effect generation to Firefly
• Alex Zarfati hoped being on YouTube would help him convince studios to greenlight his projects. Now he’s doing things himself–with AI.

  "I use AI to expand sets. I use AI to fill in some of the gaps that we just couldn't afford to shoot, whether it was that we couldn't get a permit or we don't have the budget for an aerial shot with all these different cop cars and things," he explains. "I use it to make the world feel bigger than it actually is, and I think that is a great place to inject AI into your independent filmmaking."

  
• Derral Eves believes anyone can find an audience on YouTube. He wrote a step-by-step creator field guide to prove it.

  
• Jordan Matter is doing a full-day AMA at VidSummit so younger creators can learn everything he knows

  Matter, whose channel has 38 million subscribers and drives more than 400 million views per month with content about his daughter Salish, has been in the YouTube space for 15 years. That's 15 years of knowhow that can help people earlier in their journeys.

  
• “YouTube is the greatest casting call of all time”: Paul Telner on why Hollywood’s creator IP gold rush is years in the making
• Meet the top editors behind MrBeast, MKBHD, and Quenlin Blackwell–here and onstage at VidSummit
• MIPCOM 2026: a “convergence” point for every entertainment industry to talk vertical series, branded content, gen AI, and more
• “Best-in-class humans powered by best-in-class technology”: Viral Nation’s SocialAI is the data engine driving its “flywheel” of operations
• MIPCOM 2026 expands creator economy programming, embraces vertical content and generative AI
• Here’s how Collab used licensed clips and human voiceovers to turn Rufus Goodboy into YouTube’s best-in-show animal compilation channel
• At VidSummit 2026, Dr. Plants will lay out his playbook for getting 50 million views on every video
• Thinking about going to VidSummit 2026? Here are two full keynotes from 2025 as a taste of what you’ll get.