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• At VidCon, a pickleball competition will bring more visibility to creator sports tours
• Epic Games has now paid over $1 billion to the creators of Fortnite’s “Islands”

  According to data shared at Unreal Fest, Epic Games has now paid more than $1 billion to creators through the Unreal Editor for Fortnite.

  
• The British Film Institute’s video archive will preserve the weird and wild sides of web culture

  Videos like "Charlie Bit My Finger" and "Badgers" are part of a video archive established by the British Film Institute.

  
• Report: Nearly 60% of videos recommended to new TikTok accounts are AI slop

  A report found that TikTok recommends far more AI slop than YouTube, with more than half of For You Page videos fitting that category.

  
• Twitch creators can now get certified to earn more trust from potential brand partners
• Starmer says the U.K. says will go “further than any country in the world” to keep teens off social media
• Fox’s $22 billion Roku acquisition makes it the king of the FAST lane. What’s next?
• Creators love collectibles, so TikTok is launching World Cup trading cards
• YouTube looks to upstage its competitors with “Music Nights” headlined by A-list artists
• Have you heard? Ryan Trahan’s Joyride, NPR’s YouTube hire, and MrBeast’s next big milestone.
• The “MLB Players Studio” will turn sluggers into content creators
• LinkedIn’s influencer push levels up with launch of Creator Marketplace