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• Here’s what made YouTube YouTube in 2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 12/14/2025

  Rural life has become a hot topic on the Asian side of YouTube Shorts. Even the Indian family channels are hopping on the bandwagon.

  
• Have you heard? Smosh moves, Angry Ginge wins on TV, and Hatsune Miku gets bigger than ever

  Smosh has a new office, Angry Ginge won a British reality show, and Hatsune Miku's getting huge for New Year's Eve.

  
• Kajabi is now offering creator financing, citing reports that 81% of small biz owners struggle to access capital

  A few creator-specific financial services have popped up to fill that need, and the latest comes from a partnership between Kajabi, which describes itself as the "leading creator commerce platform," and Parafin, a company that makes "white-labeled, AI-powered financing."

  
• TikTok narrows the measurement gap with DoubleVerify partnership
• Viral Nation and Fremantle’s new deal puts creators in charge of original premium series, starting with ‘Model Creator’ and ‘Cr1me C0de’
• Australia’s social media ban has taken effect, and the world is watching
• The internet’s family-friendly faves are going down the ‘Rabbit Hole’ for “the ultimate teen variety show” (Exclusive)
• Home Depot puts Dude Perfect in its “starting lineup” for new creator program
• Disney signs $1 billion licensing deal with OpenAI, is big mad at Google
• Instagram is the latest platform to make users fix their own recommendation algorithms (via AI chatbot, of course)
• Creators with international audiences should localize their content. Linguana is using AI-cloned voices to do it.