Channels

• YouTube gets caught using “machine learning” to tweak creators’ Shorts after they go live
• Instagram wants to host the next Group Chat, so it’s letting you link your Reels

  As short-form web series like 'Group Chat' become popular, Instagram is making sure that Reels can get in on the fun.

  
• YouTube Music celebrates 10th anniversary by showing you which bands are in town

  YouTube Music is now ten years old, and the platforms is celebrating with a Bandsintown integration (and Sabrina Carpenter partnership).

  
• Bean there, done that: Hank Green’s focus aid soars to top of App Store charts

  Hank Green created an app that uses a cute bean-shaped characters to improve focus. It reached the top of the App Store charts.

  
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2020, a mass reckoning came to the creator world
• Netflix’s continued creator push brings Mark Rober on board
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/17/2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/17/2025
• And the Oscars broadcast goes to…YouTube?
• YouTube’s new Shorts ads give kudos to creators
• YouTube has more challengers than ever, but it’s just getting bigger
• ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ has taken over Netflix and the pop charts. Now you can sing along in movie theaters.