News

• Insights: Jack Dorsey Finally Frees Twitter Bird To Fly Higher, If It Can
• Alexis Ohanian Invests In 25-Year-Old Entrepreneur Tiffany Zhong’s NFT Startup ‘Islands’

  The 25-year-old entrepreneur Tiffany Zhong has raised $3.5 million for her startup Islands, which is focused on mainstreaming NFTs for both creators and collectors.

  
• MrBeast’s ‘Squid Game’ Remake Becomes Fastest Non-Music Video To Reach 100 Million Views — In 4 Days

  MrBeast's Squid Game re-creation has quickly gone from massively-anticipated to unprecedented.Reed Duchscher, the founding CEO of talent management company Night, who reps MrBeast, says the 26-minute video has broken a litany of records beyond its staggering 123 million viewcount.

  
• YouTube’s Latest Experimental Feature Shows Creators What Their Viewers Are Searching For

  Called Search Insights, the feature is a proposed add-on to YouTube Studio that would “give creators the opportunity to see parts of what’s been searched in the last 28 days,” YouTube product lead Alina Verbenchuk says in the platform’s latest Creator Insider video.

  
• Jack Dorsey Resigns As CEO Of Twitter
• Spotify Is Testing A TikTok-Like Music Discovery Tool
• Podimo Raises $78 Million To Bring In New Podcasts And Up Creator Payouts
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 11/22/2021
• Roblox Sues Creator For $1.65 Million, Alleging “Malicious, Fraudulent, And Oppressive” Conduct
• Reddit Shuts Down Short Video Platform Dubsmash
• Gen Z Studio Brat TV Is Celebrating Itself With Inaugural Awards Show
• Lush To Shutter Most Of Its Social Media Accounts, Citing Consumer Well-Being
• Instagram Testing 60-Second Stories, Quadruple Their Current Length
• Pokimane And The AVGL Are Giving $10,000 College Scholarships To High School Gamers
• Jack ‘CouRage’ Dunlop Re-Ups With YouTube Gaming
• The Game Theorists Unveil Third Star-Studded ‘Giving Tuesday’ Stream For St. Jude
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 11/22/2021
• Moonbug Teams With UNICEF To Develop Positive Storylines For Kids, Starting With ‘Supa Strikas’
• Twitter To Pilot Social Commerce Tools In First-Ever Stream With Walmart, Jason Derulo
• TikTok Names Instagram, Twitter Alum Shavone Charles Head Of Diversity, Inclusion Comms
• Spotify Has $3.5 Billion On Its Balance Sheet For Growth And Investment
• Everyone Gets A (Toy) Car In MrBeast, MSCHF’s Just-Launched Lamborghini Sweepstakes
• Facebook Reportedly Offering Musicians And Celebrities Up To $50,000 To Use Its Clubhouse Copycat
• Subscription Startup ‘Literati’ Taps Digital Creators To Launch Their Own Monthly Book Clubs