News

• Is a new ChatGPT plugin a sign that the how-to economy is shifting from YouTube to AI?
• TikTok Shop’s luxury goods glow-up is happening on live streams

  TikTok Shop is becoming a home for luxury resale, and many of those goods are being sold via live streams.

  
• Amazon wants Prime Video users to get their news from TikTok-style clips

  Amazon's latest attempt to compete with TikTok involves short-form news clips that show up in the Prime Video app.

  
• The EU doesn’t just want to ban kids from social media. It’s blocking chatbots and gaming, too.

  According to a commission document seen by Reuters, the commission is proposing that the E.U.'s approach "should allow ​minors to benefit from the huge potential of digital services, while protecting them from abuse and exploitation."

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Goth, jock, nerd
• Steven Bartlett’s next venture is a $400 million plan to invest in creator businesses
• Not feeling confident on your stream? Twitch’s AI assistant will coach you up.
• What’s next for ‘Taskmaster’ after getting big on YouTube? A charity stream with creators.
• YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon team up to charm Capitol Hill over sports rights
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/13/2026
• A24 is making an SCP Foundation movie. That’s news to the SCP Foundation.
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/13/2026
• Streamers on the runway: Kai Cenat brings his apparel brand to New York Fashion Week
• Have you heard? Tiltify’s creator awards, a ‘Drunk History’ comeback, and a 95-year-old podcaster.
• Gamers are all over the world, but they don’t all stream on the same platforms
• Meta’s ads asked TikTok to follow its lead on safety. TikTok rejected them.
• Roblox says it’ll help developers release their games as standalone apps across PC, mobile, and consoles. Oh, and it’s getting into fintech, too.
• Skyrim’s latest player companion: a sentient IKEA shelf that can hold your 10,000 wheels of cheese
• “Best-in-class humans powered by best-in-class technology”: Viral Nation’s SocialAI is the data engine driving its “flywheel” of operations
• Instagram would be very sad if users could choose what content they see
• Night partners with Typical Gamer and MustardPlays’ UGC gaming company to launch its own Roblox studio
• Burger King wants to promote its “Whopper Guarantee,” so it enlisted Rhett and Link as taste testers (Exclusive)
• IMDb’s “digital creator” label lets artists “represent the full scope of their work in one place”
• According to YouTube, the mainstream isn’t dead. It just looks different than it used to.