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• Creator media company pocket.watch is bringing Toys and Colors home for the holidays
• Reddit surges as generation gaps persist in annual survey of U.S. social media preferences

  The Pew Research Center's latest report on U.S. social media habits showed a significant year-over-year gain for Reddit.

  
• TV distributors turned YouTube into a home for reruns. Now it’s hosting unaired episodes, too.

  The 'Friends' spinoff 'Joey' landed on YouTube as a long-tail distribution window. Now unaired episodes have dropped there as well.

  
• Can Netflix use a Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition to break into movie theaters?

  Netflix has indicated that it will honor theatrical commitments if it is able to acquire fellow streaming company Warner Bros Discovery.

  
• The creator economy is becoming a “must buy” — and a $37 billion industry in the U.S.
• YouTube responds to “top feature request” by testing direct messages
• Creators are becoming wrestlers, so the WWE is turning its stars into creators
• TikTok knows some users are fed up with AI content, so it’s letting them choose how much of it they see
• Facebook creators can use a new content protection tool to say “stop copying me”
• Agentio raises $40 million to build the “infrastructure” that powers the creator marketing industry
• Baby Shark is everywhere, even on the stock market
• With new web series called ‘Making It,’ Cricket Wireless roots for the underdogs