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• Top 100 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • October 2023
• On the Podcast: Podcasts are getting more brand deals. Are creators next?

  For the past few years, direct response marketing has ruled podcasts. But there's a new king in town.

  
• Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • October 2023

  Siowei is the lone Malaysian representative in our Global Top 100 for October 2023. She got there by bringing bright comedy videos to Shorts.

  
• Streamers on the Rise: Xaryu has spent 11 years on Twitch. He’s ready for 11 more.

  Xaryu has been on Twitch for over a decade, but this last year, he says, has been his best one ever. A lot has changed for him in the 11 years since he started streaming. He originally found a passion for Twitch "from probably playing too many video games as a kid" and then getting really, really good at World of Warcraft, he says.

  
• TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund is shutting down. Here’s how creators are getting paid from now on.
• Pocket.watch announces eight new partners, including short-form stuntman Daniel Labelle
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: KSI leads the way as both a creator and a sponsor
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 11/05/2023
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 11/05/2023
• Rhett & Link launch their own mythical cereal brand
• “It’s maybe the greatest crossover of all time”: ‘Hot Ones’ goes on a ‘Chicken Shop Date’
• Adblockpocalypse: Users uninstall ad blockers in droves after YouTube crackdown
• Pressure mounts on right-wing account Libs of TikTok after Anti-Defamation League caves to threats
• Want to get your groceries through TikTok Shop? That option may be coming soon.
• Millionaires: How Caylus Cunningham fell back in love with YouTube
• YouTube adjusts recs to protect teens from “repeated messages about idealized standards”
• YouTuber Joey Graceffa seeks $250,000 for film adaptation of mystery series ‘Escape The Night’
• On the Podcast: Hello, sunshine
• OpusClip wants creators to embrace AI–so its latest tool makes B-roll automatic
• Uncommon Threads Media is translating global children’s videos. Up first: A giraffe named Joze.
• TikTok’s favorite food critic brought “the Keith Lee effect” to Atlanta. Then the complaints began.
• Creators on the Rise: Caitlyn Grabenstein is turning her out-of-this-world art into chocolate bars
• MrBallen Studios picks up original podcast to expand beyond its titular creator
• On the Podcast: MrBeast’s views per video