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• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Ryan Trahan double trouble
• TikTok says small business owners will lose $1 billion in revenue a month if it’s banned

  The platform didn't say exactly how that revenue is generated, but we can safely assume a significant chunk comes from its ever-growing ecommerce hub TikTok Shop. TikTok doesn't often disclose sales numbers from the hub, but it did say that sellers there made over $100 million on Black Friday alone, with some independent brands (like creator-owned cosmetics company Canvas Beauty) seeing six figures' worth of sales in the 24-hour period.

  
• An AI VTuber is setting world records on Twitch

  Vedal originally created Neurosama back in 2018 as a bot that would play the rhythm game osu!. They recently revamped her as a full-fledged VTuber with her own cutesy animated model. Basically, at her bones, Neurosama is an advanced chatbot that can play games like Minecraft and converse with viewers.

  
• A troll got a YouTuber’s Nintendo videos wrongly deleted. How did YouTube let it happen?

  YouTube hadn't just removed some of the series' videos; it had also issued not one, but two copyright strikes on his channel. Per the platform's Community Guidelines, if he got a third strike, his channel would be permanently deleted.

  
• New Year’s Rockin’ Eve is putting content creators center stage (Exclusive)
• Honey’s business model is “an adpocalypse all day every day” for creators. LegalEagle just filed a class action suit to get them paid.
• Tubefilter’s official guide to 1 Billion Followers Summit 2025
• Cucumbers, cottage cheese, and probiotic soda: TikTok’s impact on grocery store shelves
• Have you heard? MrBeast vs. ‘Squid Game’, Meta vs. Congress, and YouTube vs. Russia
• As athletes become YouTubers, a nine-time Olympic gold medalist is your new swim coach
• YouTube wants to bring back old-school discovery and let you “Play Anything”
• Nearly half of all streaming subscriptions are now supported by ads