News

• Fortnite challenges Roblox with in-game item sales, zero revenue split through 2027
• How do online platforms contribute to radicalization? The House is asking tech CEOs to answer.

  The CEOs of Discord, Valve, Reddit, and Twitch have been invited to talk to the House of Representatives regarding online radicalization.

  
• Disney fined $10 million for failing to label YouTube videos as “made for kids”

  Like YouTube's, Disney's FTC settlement comes with more than a multimillion-dollar payment as penalty. Per the terms, it's required to form an Audience Designation Program that will manually review each video it publishes to YouTube and apply a 'made for kids' or 'not made for kids' label. That means no more channel-wide labeling.

  
• MrBeast who? When “reach” replaces views, ‘Saturday Night Live’ becomes the top U.S. YouTube channel.

  A report from digital i uses reach rather than views to rank the top U.S. YouTube channels, and the official 'SNL' hub comes out on top.

  
• Creator-curated storefronts hit the mainstream thanks to brands like Sephora and Condé Nast
• Digital platforms are introducing new age verification systems to keep kids safer online. Lawmakers are taking it even further.
• The TikTok ban got delayed again, but Trump says the deal to create new, U.S.-owned app is done
• Charli and Dixie D’Amelio are playing dress up with their childhood toys in Roblox
• Let’s make a deal: YouTube caters to brands and podcasters by making its ads more flexible
• YouTube’s major livestreaming revamp: Ads that don’t stop streams, simultaneous horizontal/vertical broadcasts, and more
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Money money money
• Nepal’s Discord election shows that platform bans won’t deter Gen Z politicos
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/14/2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/14/2025
• A new French creator event talks creativity in the era of AI
• Have you heard? MrBeast has lobbyists, Joely Live signs with WME, and “the great lock-in” arrives
• Fandoms still rule TV: What Swift & Kelce prove about culture in 2025
• Reality stars are becoming influencers, so Tinder is turning influencers into reality stars
• BuzzFeed’s flagship YouTube channel is back with a “bold new programming slate”
• A cow at Maya Higa’s animal sanctuary is bullying stream viewers for treats, and they love it
• Inside Salish Matter’s sold-out (and shut down) Sephora launch
• For teenage viewers, YouTube Shorts ads drive more purchases than TikTok ads
• AI is trained on YouTube videos. Now we can see which ones have been used.
• Reddit is revamping its metrics to emphasize content creation (with a hat tip for lurkers)