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• Create local, watch global: U.K. viewers travel the world when they log onto YouTube
• Have you heard? Twitch throws out VTuber gifts, Chipotle’s Boorito levels up, and ChatGPT gets brainrot.

  Twitch aliented VTuber fanbases, Chipotle added TikTok to its Boorito strategy, and ChatGPT complained of brainrot.

  
• Be very quiet: YouTube is hunting malware

  YouTube teamed up with cybersecurity firm Check Point to crack down on a so-called "Ghost Network" of malware videos.

  
• Marseille Web Fest wraps its 15th event, crowning nearly a dozen web series

  The 15th edition of international digital film festival Marseille Web Fest wrapped up earlier this month, handing out 11 awards to exemplary fictional and documentary series.

  
• Is YouTube’s TV viewership plateauing, or is it just back-to-school season?
• “Internet-born film studio” Creator Camp just got its first movie into theaters
• Stuck in a Shorts rabbit hole? YouTube’s new timer puts a limit on your browsing session.
• Spotter shuts off public access to its gen AI suite Studio, says it’s focusing on long-form brand deals for creators
• Sponsorships are up 54% year-over-year on YouTube. We’re officially launching a tool to track them all.
• 20 years of YouTube: 2024 brought us the “influencer election” — and a vision of the future
• Consumers are picking up the AI “Vibes” Meta is putting down
• Ecommerce boom pushes ShopMy to $1.5 billion valuation as firm lands fresh funding