News

• Spotify brings its video podcasts to six new countries
• Myth is the latest streaming star to sign with YouTube Gaming

  Ali 'Myth' Kabbani, a member of Team SoloMid's 'Fortnite' team, is the latest gamer to sign an exclusive streaming deal with YouTube Gaming.

  
• MrBeast, Ninja raise $200,000 for charity with Prime Day promotion

  The Ultimate Crown 'League of Legends' event pitted MrBeast's team against Ninja's in the lead-up to Amazon's Prime Day promotion.

  
• Here’s a stirring tribute to departed YouTube star Technoblade (and a campaign to support cancer research)

  YouTube animation channel Sad-ist paid tribute to departed 'Minecraft' star Technoblade with a fundraiser for Sarcoma Foundation of America.

  
• Blue Wire, which works with creators on sports podcasts, has raised $2.5 million
• The co-founder of TikTok predecessor Musical.ly has left Bytedance
• ‘Follow Me’ program will “empower more small businesses to dive into TikTok”
• Mads Lewis and Indiana Massara will expand Brat TV’s ‘Chicken Girls’ universe in a spinoff series
• Reddit’s line of collectible avatars is its biggest NFT experiment to date
• House of Highlights tripled its branded content revenue by working directly with creators
• After getting 1.15 billion hours of Netflix viewership on ‘Stranger Things 4,’ The Duffer Brothers are launching a studio
• The former head of gaming content at TikTok is co-founding a “blockchain-agnostic” Web3 startup