Events

• Meta continues pushing Instagram Reels as Q4 2024 results beat expectations
• ShopMy cashes in on influencer campaigns, affiliate marketing with $77.5 million funding round

  ShopMy is using its connections to the influencer marketing industry to raise a $77.5 million Series B for its affiliate links.

  
• Rival apps X, Bluesky are both launching their own takes on TikTok

  X (formerly known as Twitter) and decentralized alternative Bluesky have both iterated on TikTok's signature video feed.

  
• Trump thinks he can broker a deal to keep TikTok running

  TikTok is back online after President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving ByteDance 75 days to make a deal with the US government.

  
• Netflix wants to keep pace with YouTube among toddlers, so it struck a deal with Ms. Rachel
• As wildfires strike Los Angeles, YouTube vlogs offer personal perspectives
• Ruby Franke’s oldest daughter has authored a telling memoir — and a cautionary tale for family vloggers
• Investors deliver $265 million funding round to Whatnot as live shopping gets hotter
• TikTok CEO meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago in last-ditch effort to thwart U.S. ban
• YouTube will let creators consent to AI training (and opt them out by default)
• India to get big influencer boxing moment with Logan Paul/Conor McGregor fight
• YouTube says hello, hola, and नमस्ते by expanding auto-dubbing to educational creators