News

• MrBeast, Ninja raise $200,000 for charity with Prime Day promotion
• Here’s a stirring tribute to departed YouTube star Technoblade (and a campaign to support cancer research)

  YouTube animation channel Sad-ist paid tribute to departed 'Minecraft' star Technoblade with a fundraiser for Sarcoma Foundation of America.

  
• 36.4% of YouTube’s viewership comes from connected TV (Report)

  
• Blue Wire, which works with creators on sports podcasts, has raised $2.5 million

  Blue Wire is a sports podcasting network that increased its revenue by working with influencers. Now it has raised $2.5 million.

  
• The co-founder of TikTok predecessor Musical.ly has left Bytedance
• True crime YouTuber MrBallen launches nonprofit to support victims
• ‘Follow Me’ program will “empower more small businesses to dive into TikTok”
• LilyPichu leaves Twitch for YouTube
• Mads Lewis and Indiana Massara will expand Brat TV’s ‘Chicken Girls’ universe in a spinoff series
• Reddit’s line of collectible avatars is its biggest NFT experiment to date
• YouTube touts Shorts as “so critical for artist development”
• House of Highlights tripled its branded content revenue by working directly with creators
• Creators On The Rise: Donny Dust on the poetry of rewilding
• Here’s how much TikTok paid the entire music industry in 2021 (Report)
• After getting 1.15 billion hours of Netflix viewership on ‘Stranger Things 4,’ The Duffer Brothers are launching a studio
• The former head of gaming content at TikTok is co-founding a “blockchain-agnostic” Web3 startup
• Games Done Quick has raised more than $40 million. Its latest speedrunning event was one of its biggest.
• TikTok’s letting some users keep minors from seeing their livestreams
• Rooster Teeth’s ‘RWBY’ is getting a feature film, and it’s a crossover with the Justice League
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 07/03/2022
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 07/03/2022
• Surf’s up: Twitch gives some users the ability to flip through channels
• TikTok Shop struggled to catch on in the U.K. Now Bytedance is dialing back its e-commerce plans.
• TikTok head talks ‘Project Texas’ in response to rising data security concerns