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• TikTok’s Black-owned business accelerator is back for its third year
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 08/07/2022

  Adam Waheed, known online as Adam W, has become a king of short-form comedy. How has he managed to rise so high in our U.S. Top 50?

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/07/2022

  Dednahype got famous by taking a grandfatherly angle on TikTok. Now he's crushing it on YouTube Shorts and in our Global Top 50.

  
• Starforge Systems is blasting off with a creator-led approach to custom PCs

  Starforge Systems is a computer company backed by the gaming org One True King (OTK), which counts Mizkif and Jschlatt among its members.

  
• Jake Paul claims to have revolutionized boxing. Now he’s raising $50 million to shake up another part of the sports world.
• Twitch says it’s taking a “deep-dive look” into gambling streams
• YouTube is ready to get its Game On with an interactive live streaming event
• Elon Musk’s three-hour appearance on Nelk’s Full Send podcast gets 2 million views in less than a day
• Black creators who partnered with Triller are speaking out about the TikTok competitor’s “hypocrisy”
• YouTube Millionaires: MissDarcei’s viral “Black Girl Tries” videos helped make YouTube her full-time job
• Meta is reportedly paying creators up to $3,000 to test a new live streaming platform
• Liza Koshy will appear alongside Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron in a Netflix rom-com
• Instagram announces support for NFTs in 100 countries and territories
• Dylan Lemay is slinging ice cream balls at his new brick-and-mortar shop
• Bounty, an influencer marketing company that caters to small TikTok creators, has raised a $5 million funding round
• STEEZY is looking to be a “source of truth” for the dance community. It’s launching a slate of four new shows.
• Creators On The Rise: The YouTubers behind Not What You Think had no plans for their channel. It’s about to hit 2 million subscribers.
• Selena Gomez is inviting one of the internet’s favorite chefs onto her cooking show
• Lawsuit from Grammy winner claims that YouTube’s copyright systems “reduce the value of all works”
• TikTok’s share of the U.S. influencer marketing industry is surpassing Facebook’s
• Is the TikTok-style feed the future of online dating?
• Season 2 of Hulu’s ‘The D’Amelio Show’ promises to look “under the surface” of TikTok-famous family
• MrBeast decided not to upload one of his $1,000,000 videos. So he gave it to Ludwig instead.
• Karl Jacobs is turning his Dream SMP adventures into a Dark Horse comic series