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• About half of the adult TikTok users in the U.S. have posted a video
• Reddit reveals 21% year-over-year revenue growth as it moves forward with long-rumored IPO

  Reddit is finally becoming a publicly traded company on Wall Street more than two years after it filed a confidential IPO.

  
• Marques Brownlee is Ridge’s new chief creative partner

  This is Brownlee's first board seat and title with a company.

  
• Streamers on the Rise: KiwiOnTheSticks says the secret to Twitch is “finding your people as quickly as you can and as genuinely as you can”

  "As my sole form of entertainment, which was video games, I got to watch my brothers and go along with them on their journeys while they were playing Final Fantasy VI, Resident Evil, and Castlevania, which all scared me. I would never play them on my own, but it was so much fun to watch them play it," she says.

  
• Fujifilm’s X100V got so big on TikTok that it sold out. The next camera in that line has arrived.
• “Are You Blacker Than ChatGPT?” is a new game highlighting racial bias in AI
• Former Spotify, Maker Studios exec Courtney Holt joins Moonbug as its first Head of Music
• Millionaires: Mimo bakes her way to one million followers
• Ecommerce platform NTWRK acquires Complex from BuzzFeed in $108.6 million cash deal
• Creators on the Rise: alexbegs would like to send a shout-out to Celine Dion
• Morphle, the latest Moonbug partner jumping from YouTube to streaming, is on its way to Disney+
• Roblox paid out $741 million to its community of creators in 2023
• Talent firm Night signs Kinigra Deon and her empire of “family-friendly entertainment”
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 02/18/2024
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 02/18/2024
• Pinterest gets into streaming with a “deliciously entertaining” Tastemade TV show
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: MrBeast gives Time a masterclass in YouTube sponsorships
• MrBeast reformulates Feastables, says it’s now “the best-tasting chocolate ever made by mankind”
• 645,000 peak viewers tune in as Kai Cenat wins big at 2024 Streamer Awards
• TikTok says it’s the No. 1 platform for discovering new mobile games
• Is the TikTok algorithm like a bag of chips? The “Dorito theory” is going viral.
• For the first time, Podtrac includes YouTube views in global podcast rankings
• TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has been named as an honorary chair for this year’s Met Gala
• Sora, OpenAI’s newest model, stuns the internet by turning text prompts into lifelike videos