News

• After seven years at YouTube Gaming, Lester Chen heads to Andreessen Horowitz
• Pokimane seeks “mental reset” with Twitch hiatus

  Imane Anys, the Twitch streamer known as Pokimane, has announced that she will take a hiatus from content creation to get a "mental reset."

  
• More and more people are turning to TikTok for news

  
• Lilly Singh has notched another first-look deal, this time in her native Canada

  Lilly Singh is going back to her Canadian roots through a first-look development deal with Bell Media and Blink49 Studios.

  
• YouTube Millionaires: Animalogic is making the next generation of nature documentaries
• Creators On The Rise: Ryan Doka isn’t sure what’ll happen when he leaves candy in alcohol for a month. That’s what makes it fun.
• Chess streamers Alexandra and Andrea Botez make a move with CAA
• Meet YouTube’s new Creator Liaison
• Netflix lost a million subscribers in Q2–but that’s a million fewer than expected
• FaZe Clan has gone public
• Google said Instagram was cutting into its Search and Maps traffic. Now Instagram’s debuting a searchable map.
• YouTube cuts Content ID appeal period from 30 days to seven
• YouTube’s new Shopify integration lets creators place products across their channels
• Want your Bitmoji to work on a laptop? Try Snapchat’s browser version.
• Instagram now lets you shop in DMs
• Ahead of back-to-school season, Ryan Kaji’s new Skechers designs are here
• WEBTOON says it’s paid comic creators $27 million since 2020
• YouTube Shorts gives Katie Feeney another sports correspondent gig at the MLB All-Star Game
• Hamsters chow down on tiny eats in YouTube’s latest original series
• TikTok’s security chief is stepping back
• Mark Rober searches for good samaritans as the guest host of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
• 10 years ago, there were no YouTube videos with a billion views. Now, 317 music videos have reached that mark.
• Trend raises $3 million to arrange “simple, contract-free” branded content deals
• Kids are spending 91 minutes a day on TikTok–and 56 minutes on YouTube