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• ShopMy cashes in on influencer campaigns, affiliate marketing with $77.5 million funding round
• Nickelodeon takes on CoComelon with first original animated series on YouTube

  Nickelodeon is venturing into original YouTube programming with a series called 'Kid Cowboy' on the 'Blaze and the Monster Machines' channel.

  
• Have you heard? Shroud frags for his dad, and chess gets a rules update

  Shroud raised more than $100,000 to honor his dad, chess got some patch notess, and Charli D'Amelio cleared the air surrounding her vape.

  
• Substack pledges $20 million to creators who bring their followers its way

  Substack is joining the hunt for displaced TikTok users with a Creator Accelerator Fund worth up to $20 million.

  
• Creators are getting thousands of new followers by posting Trial Reels. Was that Instagram’s plan all along?
• The holidays have become the peak viewing period on streaming platforms
• Rival apps X, Bluesky are both launching their own takes on TikTok
• Trump’s inauguration stream shows that his YouTube presence could play a bigger role during his second term
• Instagram is reportedly offering TikTokers up to $50,000 per month to post on Reels
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