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• Creators On The Rise: 12-Year-Old Gavin Magnus’ Subscriber Count And Monthly Views Skyrocketed After His Music Video “Crushin”
• Select Management Signs Andrea Russett, Olympic Hopeful Sky Brown, ‘Pose’ Star Johnny Sibilly

  Select Management Group, one of the most illustrious talent management first in the digital space, has added to its roster with figures from the traditional entertainment and sports realms.

  
• What’s The Point Of Web Fests?

  While web series are no longer the new kid on the internet block, the idea of celebrating them as a format of their own still confounds people. Tribeca and Cannes are known entities, famous for catapulting films from Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino into the spotlight and offering the ability to rub shoulders with celebrities at glitzy parties, but digital episodic creators still struggle to answer the question: “What’s the point of a web fest?”

  
• Top-10 College Football Teams Are Also Great At Generating Social Video Views

  The 2019 college football season began this past weekend with a handful of games, and is launching in earnest this week and over Labor Day weekend, with wall-to-wall matchups Aug. 28 through Sept. 2.

  
• Pentatonix Kicks Off Yearlong Brand Deal With RCA Electronics
• Amid Objectionable Content Controversies, Susan Wojcicki Defends “Openness” Of YouTube Platform
• TikTok Reportedly Piloting New Ad Product, An Audience Network, In Asia
• MatPat’s Alternate Reality Game ‘The Theorist Gateway’ Has Amassed 400,000 Unique Players
• YouTuber Olly Thorn Raises $100,000+ By Livestreaming Shakespeare Readings Around The Clock For 4 Days
• The YouTube Radicalization Pipeline Exists, And It’s Driving Users Toward Increasingly Alt-Right Content (Study)
• YouTube Shares Trailer For Claire Wineland Documentary
• Fullscreen Signs Jack Douglass, Mango Street, Tamera Kissen To Fully-Managed Talent Unit
• YouTube Embraces PewDiePie After Two-Year Cold Shoulder, Congratulates Him On 100 Million Subs
• James Charles Leaks Own Nude Photo Amid AT&T Hack Affecting Several Creators
• FameBit Founders Raise $2.2 Million For Podcast Advertising Startup ‘Podcorn’
• Quibi Parts Ways With Partnerships, Distribution Head Months Prior To Launch
• Bernie Su’s Livestreamed Interactive Sci-Fi Series ‘Artificial’ Brings Twitch Its First Emmy
• Google Agrees To Meet With The YouTubers Union, But Says It Won’t “Negotiate Their Demands”
• Body Artist Jody Steel To Launch Make-A-Wish Fundraiser On Her Massively-Followed Facebook Page
• YouTube Updates Child Safety Policies To Remove Adult-Themed Videos Aimed At Kids
• Beauty Giant Estée Lauder Now Allots 75% Of Its Digital Marketing Budget To Influencers
• YouTube Disables 210 Channels For Spreading Misinformation About Hong Kong Protests
• Instagram, Facing Pressure From Facebook, Is Testing Back-To-Back Ads In Stories (Report)
• YouTube Millionaires: Murray SawChuck Uses YouTube To Bring The World A Whole Lot Of Magic