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• TikTok Tests Ecommerce Waters With Branded ‘Small Gestures’ Program
• TikTok Added 12 Million Unique U.S. Visitors In March, As Watch-Time Surges In Quarantine (Report)

  Have you been obsessively scrolling TikTok this quarantine? You’re far from alone. The micro video platform, owned by Chinese internet giant Bytedance, added more than 12 million unique U.S. visitors in March, for a total of 52.2 million, per a recent eMarketer report, citing figures from Comscore.

  
• Bon Appétit’s ‘Test Kitchen’ Crew To Host YouTube Variety Show Benefiting Coronavirus Relief

  The beloved Bon Appétit 'Test Kitchen' crew -- the chefs and YouTube personalities that have catapulted the Condé Nast title to online video renown -- are doing their part to give back amid the coronavirus crisis. 

  
• TikTok Millionaires: “24-Hour Man” Kyran Nijjar Keeps His Audience On The Edge

  Kyran Nijjar knows how to keep 'em coming back for more.

  
• RuPaul’s DragCon Shifts Exclusively To YouTube In Wake Of Coronavirus Cancellation
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 4/27/2020
• Twitch Streamers Creating 89% More Sponcon, Getting 23% More Engagement Than They Did Pre-Pandemic (Report)
• Josh Gad To Reunite Casts Of Classic Films On Just-Launched YouTube Channel
• MrBeast’s ‘Creator Games’ Is YouTube’s Most-Watched Live Original Ever, With 662K Concurrent Viewers
• A3 Artists Signs Popular Pomeranian Jiffpom, With 20 Million TikTok Followers (Exclusive)
• TikTok Launches In-App Fundraising Product, Plots Star-Studded Charity Stream
• Neeko—Twitch Streamer And TikTok’s “OK, Boomer Girl”—Signs With Night Media (Exclusive)
• YouTube Pacts With 20 International Film Festivals, Including Tribeca And Cannes, For First-Of-Its-Kind Virtual Screening
• 200,000 Live Viewers Tune Into Premiere Of James Charles’ YouTube Competition
• Facebook Comes For Zoom With New Videoconferencing Feature ‘Messenger Rooms’
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Chats Site’s Evolving Policies, Viewership Trends Amid Coronavirus Crisis
• Here Are The Creator vs Creator Matchups For MrBeast’s Rock-Paper-Scissors YouTube Special
• Insights: Grading Video Streaming Services Six Weeks Into The Pandemic
• Rooster Teeth Helps Establish ‘Women In Animation’ Chapter In Its Native Austin
• Travis Scott’s In-Game ‘Fortnite’ Concert Nabs 12.3 Million Concurrents, Shattering All-Time Record
• YouTube Millionaires: For Singer-Songwriter Caroline Manning, YouTube Is A Place To Cultivate Joy
• Facebook Is Cool With Disguised Toast Revisiting Twitch—So Long As He’s Not Streaming Gaming Content
• Rudy Mancuso Drops Instrumental Album In Bid To Ease Pandemic-Related Anxieties
• ‘Russian Doll’ Showrunner Leslye Headland Developing A “Female-Centric” ‘Star Wars’ Series For Disney+ (Report)