News

• 20 years of YouTube: 2024 brought us the “influencer election” — and a vision of the future
• Consumers are picking up the AI “Vibes” Meta is putting down

  Amidst general turmoil in the world of AI, Meta may have found a hit with a generative AI feature known as the Vibes feed.

  
• Ecommerce boom pushes ShopMy to $1.5 billion valuation as firm lands fresh funding

  ShopMy has announced a $70 million funding round that values the ecommerce firm and its billions of sales dollars at $1.5 billion.

  
• UTA’s ZCON brings hundreds of Gen Z creators to LA for an exclusive meeting of the minds

  ZCON, the Gen Z-exclusive event hosted by UTA's Next Gen division, is back in Los Angeles this week with two days of biz dev programming aimed at giving young content creators a platform to hear about (and discuss) "the attention economy, trends, culture, digital futures, social commerce, the future of entertainment, social good, the future of work, the creator-economy."

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Lost in lake
• An influencer boxing event established a new Kick record with 4.6 million concurrent viewers
• All the news that’s fit to scroll: New York Times launches TikTok-style feed in main app
• IAB is giving creators their own upfronts
• Weeks ago, female streamers said they were worried about TwitchCon’s lax security. They were right to be.
• The Good Good Championship comes to Austin as a top YouTube golf group gets a PGA event
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/19/2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/19/2025
• Creator Week Macau hopes to bridge East and West for the digital content industry
• Twitch’s newest ads are doing shopping live
• Have you heard? Dan and Phil hard launch (with a podcast) while Freddie Wong announces a movie.
• YouTube gets a new shopping integration as it touts its impact on Gen Z style
• YouTube’s latest economic report details €7 billion contribution to European GDP
• Instagram’s first 25 Rings go out to all kinds of creators
• Moist Cr1TiKaL’s $35 million YouTube earnings explain decision to turn off donations
• MrBeast filed a trademark for a financial services company (and a bunch of other stuff)
• Indigenous House, a streaming service led by Native creators, opens its doors
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Love is in the air
• Keep it PG-13: Instagram has new standards for teens
• Netflix wants its own video podcast library, so it’s partnering with Spotify