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• Teespring Says It’s Paid Out $80 Million In Creator Profits Since 2018
• Ad Agency Mekanism Taps Curtis Roach For Back-To-School Safety Campaign On Triller

  Ad agency Mekanism is turning to burgeoning micro-video platform Triller to ease student anxieties in New York City, where schools are set to reopen in the fall. With 1.1 million public school students set to return to classrooms with different protocols and formats in place, the agency has launched a social media campaign to promote a new kind of greeting to replace handshakes, fist-bumps, and high fives.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 8/17/2020

  Former NASA engineer Mark Rober made his own contribution to the Shark Week craze and earned a lot of YouTube views as a result.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 8/17/2020

  The American YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, had a big week on YouTube after he purchased his own private island.

  
• Amid YouTube Channel Exodus, Bon Appétit Taps Marcus Samuelsson As Advisor, Guest Editor
• TikTok Integrates With Music Distributor UnitedMasters, Will Let Artists Boost Their Songs From Its App To Spotify, Apple Music, More
• People Spend 25% Of Their TV Time Streaming Netflix, YouTube, Disney+ (Report)
• Quibi Tries To Spur Second (Or First?) Wave Of Hype On Social Video
• Insights: The Teachable Moments In The TikTok/’Fortnite’ Teenpocalypse
• UTA Signs 11-Year-Old Comedian Cece Price, Who Got Her Start On Vine (Exclusive)
• YouTube Comes Out Swinging Against Proposed Australian Law Requiring It To Pay News Publishers
• Epic Games Deploys Viral #FreeFortnite Campaign As It Sues Apple, Google For Removing Game From App Stores
• Spotify Is Hiring A Head Of Audiobooks, Signaling Its Ambitions In The Space
• WarnerMedia Looking To Sell Anime Service Crunchyroll For Reported $1.5 Billion
• Jake Paul Signs With New Management — Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi
• Lele Pons To Chat ‘Best Kept Secrets’ With Anonymous Callers In New Spotify Podcast (Trailer)
• YouTube Millionaires: Anna McNulty Flexes Her Way To 7 Million Followers Across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram
• 14-Year-Old ‘Fortnite’ Pro FaZe Ewok Returns To Twitch
• YouTube Will Let Creators Prevent Channel Editors From Seeing Revenue Data
• Brian Awadis, FaZe Clan’s Most-Followed Creator, To Headline Collective’s First Feature Film
• Shroud’s Homecoming Twitch Stream Brings 3 Million Live Viewers
• New York Yankees Tap TikTok For Sponsorship, Exclusive Content Deal
• YouTube Reinstates Monetization For Steven Crowder 14 Months After Racist, Homophobic Harassment Of Carlos Maza
• Influencer Marketing Company CreatorIQ Joins YouTube’s Measurement Program