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• Have you heard? MrBeast’s baseball stats, CaseOh’s cat computer, and Trisha Paytas’ pope drama
• Why do we love Akinator? The company behind the celeb-guessing genie explains its “divinatory art.”

  The "mind-reading" genie Akinator has been guessing celebrities for more than 15 years. What's the secret behind the program's success?

  
• Creators are building their own streaming services. Dropout, the Try Guys, and the Sidemen all used Vimeo to do it.

  With creator entrepreneurialism at an all-time high, more YouTube channels turned media companies have been exploring how to bulk up monetization and maintain control over their content by offering paywalled extras to fans.

  
• YouTube’s quarterly ad revenue approaches $9 billion after double-digit year-over-year bump

  YouTube ad revenue continued to go full speed ahead as Google parent Alphabet faced regulatory challenges in Q1 2025.

  
• Kids’ content makes hundreds of millions on YouTube. A new company–filled with execs from Disney, Nick, and more–wants in.
• Meta is addressing the “unfortunate reality” of spammy content with new moderation tactics
• Jynxzi made $452,000 on Twitch in the last 30 days. Here’s why that’s good for our industry.
• Twitch’s 2024 gaming data shows us why ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ will be such a big deal
• Owl to e4: Duolingo is teaching chess
• The #SkinnyTok trend is drawing scrutiny from E.U. regulators
• PBS pulled a documentary about a trans speedrunner. So the director put it on Twitch instead.
• Edits, Instagram’s answer to CapCut, surges up App Store charts after receiving wide rollout