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• YouTube’s 2026 Coachella coverage includes its answer to FAST platforms
• With a move into podcast hosting, beehiiv adds another popular format for its creators

  Newsletter platform beehiiv is expanding into podcasts with a platform that lets creators host and monetize their audiovisual shows.

  
• Is TikTok trying to leverage #FinTok success to become an accredited lender?

  TikTok has reportedly applied for licenses in Brazil that would allow it to operate as an accredited financial lender.

  
• YouTube and TikTok draw music lovers, but Meta says that Instagram is the home of superfans

  A study from Meta and Luminate shows that music "superfans" are disproportionately represented on Instagram.

  
• On May 13, YouTube will use its Brandcast presentation to explain why it’s “the future of media”
• Many leaders have banned TikTok on government devices. Zohran Mamdani is moving NYC in the other direction.
• Bent Pixels’ $23 million acquisition of Sunny State Agency begets multiformat creator powerhouse
• Alex Cooper’s reality competition series is ‘The Traitors’ for YouTube
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: We truly have it all
• With star-studded show ‘The Marketers’, Adobe buys into the branded web series renaissance
• Netflix’s “Opening Night” MLB coverage was a swing and a miss
• Snapchat hops onto the “full-funnel” bandwagon with ad formats that command attention