News

• Keke Palmer is the host of Twitch’s hottest new talk show
• Creator firm Fixated continues acquisition streak by scooping up the Studio71 network

  Creator management firm Fixated has acquired a well-known creator network in the form of Studio71's North American operations.

  
• YouTube cozies up to Hollywood by sharing its deepfake detector with studios

  YouTube has extended an offer to Hollywood studios by letting them use its likeness detection tool, which roots out AI deepfakes.

  
• Dhar Mann, Brittany Broski, Issa Rae, and more: Miami marketing conference POSSIBLE is putting the spotlight on our industry with its new Creator Economy Academy

  "A lot of [brand] partners would bring creators onsite without them necessarily being onstage," he explains. "People always talk about brands' and marketers' parts of the [advertising] industry, but creators are coming--they are part of the action onsite."

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Two-hit wonders
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 04/19/2026
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 04/19/2026
• Sidemen soccer match raises £6.2 million, draws 2.2 million concurrent viewers during 20-goal thriller
• Minecraft is bringing life-sized biomes to TwitchCon Rotterdam–plus a Tubbo competition, community hangout, and more
• Have you heard? Sykkuno’s bad behavior, Mamdani’s Sidetalk inspo, and a Tax Day surprise.
• deviantART says artists made $23 million on its platform last year, boasts that it was “100% right” to embrace generative AI
• YouTube reshuffles clipping by removing viewer options while bringing Clips to Shorts
• Jesser makes moves off the court to turn his sports content empire into a business
• Reed Hastings leaves Netflix, which says it “really built our M&A muscle” during failed deal with Warner Bros. Discovery
• TikTok is turning ByteDance’s AI video generator into a brand’s best friend
• Former OnlyFans CEO’s new platform goes softcore to become “the HBO of social media”
• Nas Daily’s AI ecom biz just closed a $27 million round led by Vinod Khosla
• Sick of slop? YouTube now has a workaround that effectively turns off Shorts.
• Courts and governments say social platforms harm teens’ mental health. Here’s what the teens think.
• Want to know why streamers are hungry for live sports? Check out NBC’s Olympics viewership.
• RedNote goes west with U.S. hires, creator outreach, and its version of TikTok Shop
• Northernlion is holding a 6-day fan “supercruise.” But he’s not the only creator traveling with viewers.
• At Coachella, Justin Bieber flipped the camera — and reminded us how YouTube changed everything
• With The Overlap’s acquisition of Mark Goldbridge’s channels, the soccer world bets on YouTube