Events

• 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

  With the U.S. law forcing ByteDance to divest or ban TikTok set to take effect, Shou Zi Chew is appealing to President-elect Donald Trump.

  
• YouTube will let creators consent to AI training (and opt them out by default)

  YouTube is letting creators choose whether their content is used to train AI models like Google's Veo. By default, consent will not be given.

  
• India to get big influencer boxing moment with Logan Paul/Conor McGregor fight

  Former UFC star Conor McGregor said that he has agreed to fight Logan Paul in a boxing match that will take place in India.

  
• YouTube says hello, hola, and नमस्ते by expanding auto-dubbing to educational creators
• Instagram turns creator-led channels into two-way streets
• VidCon Baltimore is cancelled, with VidCon saying it’ll dedicate “full efforts and resources” to Anaheim event
• Smosh is joining Rooster Teeth’s podcast network—and will have a “huge presence” at RTX
• Dream is headed to VidCon
• Twitter’s NewFronts presentation pitches it as “the second screen and the first scroll”
• Meta says it’s messing with Reels payouts, introduces new Facebook plug for creators to earn up to $4,000
• TikTok is finally splitting ad revenue with (some) creators