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• In wake of Emiru scandal, Dan Clancy admits Twitch’s errors: “We failed”
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/26/2025

  Trivia channels are becoming popular on the U.S. version of YouTube Shorts. Tariq and Ayaan are bringing that concept to the world.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/26/2025

  Videos featuring cute animals are still as big on YouTube as they used to be -- they just look a little different now.

  
• Create local, watch global: U.K. viewers travel the world when they log onto YouTube

  A study from Digital i has revealed that YouTube viewers in the U.K. watch more top channels outside of their home country.

  
• Have you heard? Twitch throws out VTuber gifts, Chipotle’s Boorito levels up, and ChatGPT gets brainrot.
• Be very quiet: YouTube is hunting malware
• Marseille Web Fest wraps its 15th event, crowning nearly a dozen web series
• Is YouTube’s TV viewership plateauing, or is it just back-to-school season?
• “Internet-born film studio” Creator Camp just got its first movie into theaters
• Stuck in a Shorts rabbit hole? YouTube’s new timer puts a limit on your browsing session.
• Spotter shuts off public access to its gen AI suite Studio, says it’s focusing on long-form brand deals for creators
• Sponsorships are up 54% year-over-year on YouTube. We’re officially launching a tool to track them all.
• 20 years of YouTube: 2024 brought us the “influencer election” — and a vision of the future
• Consumers are picking up the AI “Vibes” Meta is putting down
• Ecommerce boom pushes ShopMy to $1.5 billion valuation as firm lands fresh funding
• UTA’s ZCON brings hundreds of Gen Z creators to LA for an exclusive meeting of the minds
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Lost in lake
• An influencer boxing event established a new Kick record with 4.6 million concurrent viewers
• All the news that’s fit to scroll: New York Times launches TikTok-style feed in main app
• IAB is giving creators their own upfronts
• Weeks ago, female streamers said they were worried about TwitchCon’s lax security. They were right to be.
• The Good Good Championship comes to Austin as a top YouTube golf group gets a PGA event
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/19/2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/19/2025