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• YouTube’s first season of NFL Sunday Ticket will be free for some Verizon customers
• Who owns TikTok memes? Anthony Fantano and Activision are debating that question.

  Anthony Fantano's reaction to pizza slices became a meme. After Activision referenced it, Fantano and the publisher are headed to court.

  
• Alphabet sees green in earnings report as YouTube’s quarterly ad revenue hits $7.7 billion

  Alphabet's Q2 2023 earnings report included good news about its YouTube and search businesses and a new title for CFO Ruth Porat.

  
• Streamers on the Rise: Krystalogy sees her future in streaming

  Krystalogy has been making videos on the internet since she was 13, but she never expected it to become a full-time thing.

  
• TikTok wants to do $20 billion in retail this year
• Creators are pushing drugs like Ozempic as weight-loss solutions. Now TikTok is cracking down.
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• Instagram Subscriptions expansion lets users in ten more countries put up paywalls
• Here are your nominees (and host) for the 2023 Streamy Awards
• TikTok invites users to share “stories, poems, lyrics, and other written content” with text posts
• Sneakerheads ConnorTV, The Drip Don open shoe store in Detroit area
• AOC’s back on Twitch—with HasanAbi
• FaZe Clan’s ‘Rig Raiders’ is ‘Pimp My Ride’ for the custom PC crowd
• Karl Jacobs gets his kicks with Dream SMP-inspired Vans at Journeys
• Millionaires: Alex & Jon want to be your brand-savvy BFFs
• On the Podcast: ‘Cause YouTube is players, too
• The price of YouTube Premium is going up by $2 per month
• Roblox’s top content creators are earning $23 million a year
• Kai Cenat made nearly $6,000 in one hour after hopping onto “NPC streaming” trend
• Around the World: Beastmania in the UK, big names on TikTok, and the most internet-obsessed country
• In a survey of LGBTQ youth of color, TikTok emerges as most-trusted social platform
• Netflix axes basic plan as it adds 6 million subscribers
• Creators on the Rise: David Suh wants everyone to see themselves the way he does