Channels

• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 02/08/2026
• Spotify is selling physical books (and syncing them up with your audiobook library)

  Through a partnership with Bookshop.org, Spotify will start selling physical books and matching them up with its audiobook library.

  
• Netflix just signed its biggest creator deal yet

  
• Alphabet reveals YouTube revenue for first time: The video platform generated $60 billion in 2025

  For the first time, Alphabet has revealed YouTube revenue in its earnings report, and the magic number is $60 billion.

  
• “YouTube has kind of this attitude, like, ‘You’re lucky to be on YouTube'”: Spotify’s Head of Talk Strategy dunks on YouTube after Netflix deal
• Hank and John Green are cultivating trust by turning their production company into a nonprofit
• YouTube is making people pay up for background play
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 02/01/2026
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 02/01/2026
• Markiplier on breathing life into ‘Iron Lung’
• Advertisers express disappointment after the firms measuring YouTube like TV are ordered to cease and desist
• YouTube has banned some slop channels. Can it stay ahead of “low quality AI content”?