News

• Night’s production arm wants to broaden creators’ content horizons
• FaZe Clan just signed its first all-female esports team

  Valorant team Jennifer Le (aka refinnej), Emma Choe (emy), Vannessa Emely Emory (panini), Madison Mann (maddiesuun), and Diane Tran (di^) will make their debut under the FaZe Clan banner during the 2023 season of the Valorant Champions Tour's Game Changers Series.

  
• Creators On The Rise: Austin Shapiro and Lexi Cohen are becoming YouTube Shorts’ “it” couple

  Lexi Cohen wants to be very clear about one thing: her boyfriend Austin is "the simp king."

  
• The Senate’s anti-TikTok proposal has Presidential support. Say hello to the RESTRICT Act.

  Senators Mark Warner and John Thune introduced the RESTRICT Act, a proposed anti-TikTok legislation that has support from President Biden.

  
• Twitch will permaban streamers who create, share, or promote deepfakes
• Gamers are calling out the International Olympic Committee’s misguided Esports Series
• It’s time to say goodbye to YouTube’s overlay ads
• Twitch relaxed its livestreaming exclusivity clause for creators. Will YouTube do the same?
• TikTok adds paywalled content with a new monetization option called ‘Series’
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 03/05/2023
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 03/05/2023
• A group of YouTube contractors just earned a big win in their labor dispute with Google
• Anthony Padilla’s production company just signed Caroline Klidonas for a six-figure YouTube development deal
• Chipotle adds the TikTok-famous fajita quesadilla to its menu
• CJ So Cool gets frosty with his first original sneaker
• Zach King made $2,918 from 196 million views during the first month of YouTube Shorts ads
• A new NFT hub backed by Snoop Dogg wants to be a “one-stop shop” for creators
• Google terminates 6,285 YouTube channels to quash “coordinated influence operations” in China
• President Biden now has the authority to ban TikTok. But should he?
• Ad Age and TikTok are giving “young creatives” 60 seconds to depict “the future of creativity”
• YouTube Millionaires: It’s taken Kelsi Davies a lifetime to understand her gifts. She hopes her videos can help other people understand theirs.
• Change is coming to YouTube’s help community
• Bluesky is a social platform backed by Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey. It just hit the App Store.
• Zarta raises $5.7 million to build a “micro pay-per-view” video platform for creators