News

• Blue Wire, which works with creators on sports podcasts, has raised $2.5 million
• The co-founder of TikTok predecessor Musical.ly has left Bytedance

  Luyu Yang co-founded the lip sync app Musical.ly, which was later merged with TikTok. Now he has departed his role at Bytedance.

  
• True crime YouTuber MrBallen launches nonprofit to support victims

  The foundation will award a quarterly grant of up to $25,000 to an organization supporting victims of violent crimes and their families.

  
• ‘Follow Me’ program will “empower more small businesses to dive into TikTok”

  Brands like Feel Your Soul and Tassel Amor will talk about the ways they use TikTok as part of a small business initiative called Follow Me.

  
• 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
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• 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
• Teala Dunn takes fans’ confessions in new podcast ‘Anonymously Yours’ (Exclusive)
• A feature film starring TikToker Griffin Johnson is now available
• It’s official: Logan Paul signs multi-year contract with WWE