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• Maxx Chewning has a smart strategy for his creator product: Selling his company to Hershey’s
• Creators have launched their versions of ‘Shark Tank’. Two of them just got funded on the original version.

  On the U.S. version of 'Shark Tank', creators Alix Traeger and Zoya Biglary got funding for their product Fysh Foods.

  
• YouTube wants the British government to support creators

  YouTube is collecting data about creator needs in the U.K. as it prepares to take those wants to the British government.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: JD Vance, PewDiePie, and “the internet’s oldest lie”

  After making an appearance last week on Theo Von's podcast, JD Vance is back for a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan. Since these videos were both released in the leadup to the election, we now know the outcome--including how Rogan, Von, and Adin Ross were shotued out by UFC CEO Dana White during Donald Trump's victory speech. Surreal. As for the rest of the lineup, we depart from politics into baseball, science, a splash of art, and one of the internet's favorite video games.

  
• The hot new mystery in the true crime community can be found in ‘Clash of Clans’
• Have you heard? Rumble stock is surging, TikTok is celebrating cybersecurity, and monkeys are loose
• 42% of Gen Z watches anime weekly. Streaming services are taking note.
• The good, bad, and ugly of creators running marathons
• A children’s author with millions of sales is breathing new life into his work on YouTube
• Canada is ordering TikTok to shut down its offices in Vancouver and Toronto (but the app isn’t banned yet)
• Miss an episode of your favorite show? Amazon Prime Video’s AI recaps will catch you up.
• As Nvidia becomes world’s largest company, it’s looking to dismiss a creator lawsuit about AI training rights