News

• Snapchat looks to “spark some frightful fun” with star-studded ‘Phantom House’ series
• Creators on the Rise: Sam & Jess are high school sweethearts turned content dream team

  Hoyos didn't just wake up in 2021 and realize she wanted to make YouTube videos. She comes from a big, sprawling family of entrepreneurs--plus lots and lots of cousins who are very into YouTube. Watching YouTube video was a family activity, and so was going to the movie theater on the reg. These two things together sparked Hoyos' interest in digital content and storytelling, and she started making videos when she was very young.

  
• Kick will pay hourly rates to 50 creators in the second class of its Incentive Program

  50 streamers will receive hourly compensation for the broadcasts as part of the second class of Kick's Creator Incentive Program.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Mark Rober and Crunchlabs built the world’s smallest Nerf gun

  Mark Rober promoted his Crunchlabs subscription box by inserting it as the sponsor in one of his recent engineering videos.

  
• Creator company Jellysmack has acquired the Law&Crime Network
• Twitch reinstates the account of iShowSpeed, ending a ban that lasted nearly two years
• Streamers on the Rise: This 58-year-old grandma can kick your ass in Call of Duty
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 10/08/2023
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/08/2023
• Hila Klein signs with Outshine Talent (Exclusive)
• Decentralized organization CreatorDAO brings back Launchpad to help creator careers blast off
• Billion-dollar company Candle Media could fall 50% short of its initial financial projections
• Around the World: The YouTube Music museum, Pakistan’s million-dollar creator fund, and more
• Rooster Teeth moves shows to its website: “YouTube revenue just isn’t cutting it for us anymore.”
• Millionaires: Tay & Kay are cool with being the “cringe couple”
• One month after TikTok Shop’s U.S. introduction, sales are growing — but so are complaints
• BeReal launches marketing push to put the “realest person on earth” on a Times Square billboard
• Twitch’s CEO says it’s cracking down on fake views
• Additive Creative bulks up talent management roster with 18 new creator signings
• Creators on the Rise: Rachel Meaders comes from a family of entrepreneurs. So she uses her platform to spotlight small businesses.
• Paramount uploaded the entire ‘Mean Girls’ movie on TikTok on October 3. Reactions were mixed.
• On the Podcast: How is the White House so good at this?
• MrBeast calls out TikTok for allowing deepfake ad: “This is a serious problem”
• QTCinderella, Maya Higa’s Gala For Good raises “around $250,000” for rainforest conservation