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• 15 years after it started streaming to library patrons, Kanopy is producing its first originals. Why now?
• Will gen AI make YouTube’s next Elsagate?

  Like the OG Elsagate vids, these feature kid-bait characters like Minions, Thomas the Tank Engine, and even Elsa herself. There are cute cats and dogs, too. Except those dogs and cats are likely to be the subjects of horrific transformations, and Elsa--again, just like the old days--is likely to be kitted out in lacy lingerie, with a swollen pregnant belly.

  
• America’s Funniest Home Videos is a TV legend. Reaction content creators are helping give it new life online.

  Creators make content. That's the most basic tenet of our industry. Platforms like YouTube and TikTok are, at their bones, massive troves of user-generated content, all made by creators.But some creators also need content.

  
• In India, Neal Mohan announces YouTube’s $100 million investment in local creator economy

  During an appearance at WAVES in Mumbai, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said that his company is making a big investment in Indian creators.

  
• Peacock launched an accelerator for creators. Now it’s picking up their scripted shows.
• Have you heard? Alix Earle’s haircare hack, DrLupo’s chess cheat, and the VidCon Hall of Fame
• Brands don’t have to spend big on Roblox worlds anymore. The studios that once made them are consolidating.
• LinkedIn is connecting brands to “top creator voices” through a new revenue sharing program
• The digital economy now accounts for 18% of the total U.S. GDP
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2006, Lonelygirl15 taught us that nothing is real on the internet
• Dream is entering his VTuber era
• Amid an uncertain future, Snapchat reaches 460 million daily active users