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• YouTube says Premium subscribers are “podcast super-users.” So it’s giving them more exclusive listening features.
• Have you heard? PewDiePie drops vlogs, Spy Ninjas spends $25 million, and Jason Kelce gets a YouTube show

  This week, PewDiePie nixes the vlogs, Spy Ninjas splashes $25 million, and YouTube gets some new celeb programming.

  
• Netflix and Spotify just paid $100 million to take Jay Shetty’s podcast off YouTube

  The streamer and Spotify have together poached Jay Shetty and his longtime life coaching/motivational podcast On Purpose for an exclusive multiyear deal that's reportedly worth ~$100 million.

  
• What’s on the menu for the Sidemen? A cooking competition split between YouTube and Prime Video.

  The Sidemen are launched a cooking competition called 'SideMenu', which will be distributed across YouTube and Prime Video.

  
• Meta officially offers perks for paying subscribers across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
• The first film festival for microdramas will hit New York City this fall
• Explicit deepfakes are a monumental problem. Paris Hilton just published a TikTok series to combat them.
• Creators sit behind YouTube’s “Brand Deal Desk” to explain the secrets of their sponsorships
• After forging his own path, how far can Stephen Colbert go on YouTube and TikTok?
• YouTube is making AI labels easier to read (and applying them automatically)
• Netflix enters a new frontier with real-time syndication of ‘The Breakfast Club’
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Movie moments