News

• Sony-Owned Anime Streamer Funimation To Buy Crunchyroll For $1.2 Billion
• The D’Amelios, Marques Brownlee, Demi Lovato To Headline YouTube’s New Year’s Eve Special ‘Hello 2021’

  
• Ryan’s World Products Projected To Clock Half A Billion Dollars In Retail Sales By Year’s End

  Chris Williams, a former Disney and Maker executive who would later become the co-founder and CEO of next-gen kids’ entertainment goliath Pocket.watch, had a grand vision one day as he began to see kids’ content garnering massive pickup on YouTube.

  
• 2021 NewFronts Will Stay Virtual, Be Immediately Followed By Podcast Upfronts

  The 2021 NewFronts are going virtual--and, in a bid to encourage “holistic” investments from marketers across video and audio content, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has scheduled the event back-to-back with another of its annual gatherings, the Podcast Upfront.

  
• Kids’ Content Studio Moonbug Hires Disney’s David Levine As Head Of Studio
• Instagram Makes ‘Reels’ Shoppable, Bringing Ecommerce To Every Format On The App
• The FTC, 48 Attorneys General File Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook
• ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ Taps TikTok Star Eitan Bernath As Principal Culinary Contributor
• YouTube Finally Bans Content Endorsing Election Conspiracies
• Brands Taking Stands: Six Non-Negotiable Tenets For 2021
• Mark Rober To Teach Creative Engineering Class Alongside Online Learning Startup ‘Monthly’
• YouTubers Zane Hijazi, Heath Hussar Serve Up Their Own Coffee Brand—’Kramoda’
• Juanpa Zurita, Kyle Exum, NikkieTutorials, More To Bestow First-Ever ‘Streamys Creator Honors’
• Twitch Institutes Sweeping Changes To ‘Harassment And Hateful Conduct’ Policies, Beginning Jan. 22
• Facebook Launches ‘Black Gaming Creator Program’ With Monthly Pay, Other Perks
• More Than 350 Gaming Creators Hit 10 Million Subscribers In 2020, YouTube Says
• Alisha Marie And Remi Cruz’s ‘Pretty Basic’ Podcast Passes 50 Million Downloads
• YouTube Will Now Support ‘High Dynamic Range’ Video Quality For Live Streams
• FaZe Clan Launches ‘FaZe Academy’ Talent Incubator, Through Which All Future Recruits Must Pass
• YouTube Animal Guru Coyote Peterson Signs With 33 & West
• Wendy’s Teams With Tfue, Myth, Flight23white, itsHafu, And xChocoBars For ‘Never Stop Gaming’ Menu
• Hulu Vet Jim Keller Tapped To Lead Ad Sales For Upcoming Discovery+ Streaming Hub
• Logan Paul Will Fight Floyd Mayweather In An Exhibition Match On February 20
• Ryan’s World’s Latest Brand Expansion Is A Virtual World Within Roblox