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• TikTok announces new features, including labels for AI content and first-party attribution
• Did a podcast network defraud its partners out of $4 million? Coffeezilla took a look.

  Podcasters like Theo Von and Jim Cornette are allegedly out $4 million after Kast Media withheld payments to its creator partners.

  
• With Jake Paul in his corner, GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy heads to TikTok

  With Jake Paul's endorsement, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has appealed to youth voters on his TikTok account.

  
• Streamers on the Rise: PointCrow’s goldfish beat Malenia. Also, he’s building a massive business across YouTube and Twitch.

  If you don't know PointCrow (which is unlikely considering he has 602,000 Twitch followers and 2 million YouTube subscribers), you probably know his goldfish Tortellini.

  
• On the Podcast: The Creator Economy in 384 pages
• Electrify raises $85 million to invest in long-form YouTube content
• Ninja gamifies fitness with the first product developed under his Ninja Labs banner
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/17/2023
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/17/2023
• Snap enlists Natalie Alzate to host $10,000 Spotlight Challenge during Latin Heritage Month
• Karat’s playing creator/company matchmaker with a new angel investing program
• Creators like Kevin Paffrath are starting to reach settlements in lawsuit from FTX investors
• TikTok’s Creativity Program pays creators of long-form content. It’s expanding outside of the U.S.
• TikTok fined $367 million for alleged child data privacy issues
• Around the World: YouTube hits 15 years in India, and a Japanese Let’s Play creator gets punished
• Despite X’s rebrand, 69% of its U.S. users are still calling it Twitter
• The TikTok Billboard Top 50 tracks the songs that are driving short-form culture
• It’s gotta be the shoes: Basketball creator Jesser drops Bucketsquad 1 sneaker line
• Millionaires: Reb Masel wants people to know what it’s really like to be a lawyer
• aceu was offered $3,500 to order a pizza on stream
• Days after plummeting to its lowest stock price yet, FaZe Clan lets go of longtime CEO Lee Trink
• TikTok celebrates Latin Heritage Month by shouting out a fresh batch of Visionary Voices
• Artlist establishes fund, will give one creator $100,000 to “realize their wildest creative vision”
• A TikTok trend led to Kia and Hyundai thefts. Should the automakers be held responsible?