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• Firearms enthusiast Brandon Herrera has a great chance to become the first YouTuber in Congress
• KreekCraft has spent over $100,000 making a Roblox game. What’s the ROI for developers?

  
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  Couple channels are everywhere these days. How did they get so big, and how are they going to evolve in the future?

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 03/08/2026

  Everyone on YouTube Shorts seems to be blindly ranking items these days. Is it just rage bait and nothing more?

  
• Have you heard? Valkyrae introduces Squeex’s NYU scholarship while Indonesia adds to teen social media bans.
• DoorDash wants to go viral once a month. So it hired Duolingo’s former social media head.
• X is putting up paywalls to turn your multi-tweet posts into “Exclusive Threads”
• Are you a podcaster who signed a deal with Netflix? Better not post those clips on YouTube!
• “Creator TV” is a thing, and Spotter wants to sell it to big brands
• Jesser took over a Chicago Bulls game. Is this the first of many “creator nights” in the NBA?
• YouTube Gaming hit 8.8 billion hours of watchtime in 2025
• EA wants ‘The Sims’ to be its answer to Roblox. Players have other ideas.
• Google backs Animaj to make high-quality animated content at record speed
• KSI is buying an English soccer club. Can he turn it into the next Wrexham?
• Disney acquired the rights to ‘CoComelon’. Now it’s trying to find the next one.
• Keith Lee just made his first restaurant investment
• Creators have become indispensable political pundits. For NBC, that means more “Kornacki Cam.”
• Red Bull offered to pay for ImperialHal and iiTzTimmy’s dream Apex Legends event. That same creator-forward strategy is getting it a billion views a month on YouTube.
• YouTube’s soccer community is more than fan culture. It’s a “football revolution.”
• A former MrBeast employee is closing the creator economy gender gap with a service for female editors
• Fixated says it’s focusing on creator subscriptions with acquisition of Elevate
• The creator economy is all grown up, but the fight for attention is fiercer than ever
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