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• According to YouTube’s latest economic impact report, its creators added $55 billion to U.S. GDP in 2024
• MLB buys into creator content with Jomboy deal

  MLB is making a strategic investment in creator content by inking a deal with the sports entertainment company Jomboy Media.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: ACE Family fallout, MrBeast gold, and a free day at Disney

  In this week's report, we have the return of ACE Family matriarch Catherine Paiz, MrBeast giving away $50K in solid gold Moose Toys, Veritasium doing physics with one of the greatest football players of all time, Druski on his new beat, and a Disney vacation that will cost you nothing--so long as you're content watching from afar.

  
• YouTube tells moderators to ease up on political, social, and cultural content

  YouTube is advising its human moderators to let more videos stay up if they flaunt guidelines in categories like news and politics.

  
• Have you heard? The Padres embrace egirls, $100K Beast Games tours, and a Disney fail
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2011, we got down on Friday with the ultimate hate-watch
• Two-thirds of U.S. consumers see YouTube as a “realistic destination” for movies and TV shows
• Sidemen management company Arcade gets creative with agency wing
• TikTok bans #SkinnyTok hashtag
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Footballers, fentanyl, Ghostface
• At TwitchCon, TikTok-style vertical live streaming arrives for Twitch users
• TikTok has its sights set on the U.K. Can it maintain promising revenue growth across the pond?