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• Druski will break new ground for creators by hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’
• Mark Rober’s Class Crunchlabs gets an ‘A’ with $2.5 million grant from YouTube and Google.org

  About one week after Mark Rober's Class CrunchLabs arrived on YouTube, the educational unit is receiving a $2.5 million grant.

  
• Moonbug is in its era of “Big Feelings” as it launches “fully integrated music company”

  Moonbug's Big Feelings Music company will connect kid-friendly artists (think Snopp Dogg's Doggyland) with creators like Blippi.

  
• The Kings League wants to be Brazil’s next creator sensation. A Twitch vet will put the ball in play.

  As the Kings League looks to expand in Brazil, it is bringing in Twitch vet Anadege Freitas as its Managing Director.

  
• Creators have brought new fans to football and basketball. Why not fencing?
• Will students do their homework if it’s turned into a TikTok-style feed? ScrollEd thinks so.
• Is a new ChatGPT plugin a sign that the how-to economy is shifting from YouTube to AI?
• Amazon wants Prime Video users to get their news from TikTok-style clips
• Streamers on the runway: Kai Cenat brings his apparel brand to New York Fashion Week
• In the sports world, influencers are facing backlash, but no one told the NFL
• Want people to pay attention to your movie trailer? Turn it into a playable game.
• Brazil’s LiveMode was a big winner at the World Cup. Now it’s coming for Europe’s biggest leagues.