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• Whalar Launches All-Black Creator House ‘The Crib Around The Corner’
• Universal Music Yanks Catalog From Triller, Slams Service For Withholding Artist Payments

  Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record label, has yanked its catalog from Triller, claiming that the TikTok rival is withholding licensing payments to artists and refusing to negotiate going forward.

  
• Former YouTube Employee Launches ‘BlackOakTV’ Streaming Service To Superserve Black Viewers And Creators

  A former YouTube employee named Uzo Ometu is pressing play on his own entrepreneurial vision, launching an indie streaming service that seeks to superserve Black audiences and counteract underrepresentation across the greater media landscape with a slate of content from buzzworthy Black creatives.

  
• Kids’ Studio Pocket.watch Taps YouTube Icons Lilly Singh, Rosanna Pansino For 2021 Slate

  Pocket.watch, the digital studio creating kids' content alongside YouTube megastars like Ryan Kaji, has unveiled its largest content slate to date for 2021 that it says will bolster its library by 1,600 episodes.

  
• JoJo Siwa To Headline Musical Feature ‘The J Team’ At Nickelodeon And Awesomeness Films
• Instagram Building Vertical Scrolling Experience For Stories, Just Like TikTok
• This Week In Social Video: 5-Minute Crafts, Wolfoo, Super Bowl Ads
• Red Bull Launches AR Mobile Game Series With Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins, 4 Other Athletes
• Barstool Sports, NPR, Wondery Were Top-Earning Podcast Producers Of 2020 (Report)
• YouTube Design Duo Mr. Kate Unveils Quirky Furniture Collection
• YouTube Doubled Number Of TrueView Advertisers In Q4 2020, Earned $6.9 Billion
• TikTok Implements Prompts To Deter Users From Proliferating Misinformation
• YouTube Sets Series From Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions, Starring Patricia Bright
• Josh Richards And Griffin Johnson Invest In ‘Breakr’, Which Pairs Influencers With Emerging Musicians
• Wheelhouse Launches ‘DNA’ Division For Digital And Audio Ventures, Inks 360 Deal With Nikita Dragun (Exclusive)
• FaZe Clan Signs With UTA Amid Content Expansion Into Scripted, Podcasting, More
• Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 02/01/2021
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• TikTok Inks Multi-Faceted Partnership With British Ad And Marketing Giant WPP
• Google Shutters Stadia Game Dev Studio, Will Focus On Distribution And Tech
• Teespring Goes Live With ‘Spring’ Rebrand, Has More Than 450,000 Creators
• YouTube Taps Longtime Kids’ TV Exec Craig Hunter To Lead Original Content For Preschoolers
• CNN Ends Distribution Deal With Facebook Watch, Brings ‘Go There’ Series In-House
• Netflix Is Testing A Sleep Timer That Will Automatically Stop Playback