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• JoinBrands arrives on TikTok to facilitate influencer marketing partnerships
• Millionaires: One “dumb little video” made Micah & Sarah take off on TikTok. Now they have 1.2 million followers.

  First, we want to be clear: "Dumb little crap video" is Micah's description, not ours. But it's the kind of thing we hear a lot of creators say--that they made one off-the-cuff, lo-fi video, something they didn't really put too much effort into, and that was the one that went viral.

  
• The U.S. Senate proposed the Restrict Act as a TikTok ban, but the bill may see some changes

  Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is behind a plan to amend the Restrict Act, which served as the Senate's first attempt to ban TikTok

  
• Barbiemania brings millions of views to YouTube music videos (including one from 1997)

  The average YouTube views on the 1997 Aqua music video "Barbie Girl" have tripled since the release of Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' movie.

  
• Former Twitter Blue head sounds off on Elon Musk: “X is run by a mercurial leader”
• Snap stock plummets as its investors prepare for a rocky future
• YouTube’s first season of NFL Sunday Ticket will be free for some Verizon customers
• Who owns TikTok memes? Anthony Fantano and Activision are debating that question.
• Alphabet sees green in earnings report as YouTube’s quarterly ad revenue hits $7.7 billion
• Creators are pushing drugs like Ozempic as weight-loss solutions. Now TikTok is cracking down.
• Instagram Subscriptions expansion lets users in ten more countries put up paywalls
• TikTok invites users to share “stories, poems, lyrics, and other written content” with text posts