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• Night parts ways with Night Studios leadership team, will pivot with Reed Duchscher at the helm
• The Sidemen tap ‘Madden’ streamer Sketch to star in ritzy ad for Best Cereal

  Sketch, whose Madden NFL gameplay has brought him 5 million subscribers on YouTube and a million followers on Twitch, stars in a minute-long ad (produced by After Party Studios) that shows him checking in to a high-class hotel.

  
• YouTube will remove videos that include “realistic” genAI recreations of people’s faces or voices–if they ask it to

  Scarlett Johansson might be glad to hear this one: YouTube now allows people to request that AI-generated content be removed from its platform if the content in question realistically simulates their face or voice.

  
• xQc says he makes $6,000 a day from Twitch ads

  During a recent broadcast, he responded to a viewer comment asking him to remove ads by clarifying that he'd lose an objectively astronomical amount of revenue if he complied.

  
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• Jenny Nicholson’s four-hour ‘Star Wars’ hotel rant gets eight million views, Disney copyright claim