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• BuzzFeed Announces Another Live Show Coming To Twitter
• Brands Are Reaching Out To Young Teens On Instagram To Negotiate Cheap Product Endorsement

  Brands are direct messaging teens on Instagram to get them to hawk products, usually paying between $5 and $20 without offering an official contract, according to a new report from Taylor Lorenz at The Atlantic.

  
• Refinery29 To Launch Array Of Branded Products Via IMG Licensing Pact

  Amid a troubled climate for digital publishers, Refinery29 is seeking new revenue streams by entering the product licensing arena.

  
• YouTube Merch Leader Fanjoy Is Moving Into Fashion Apparel, And Its Peyton List Collab Is Just The Beginning

  Fanjoy, one of the foremost proprietors of influencer merchandise -- which has shipped more than 1 million items to date alongside savvy hawkers including Jake Paul, David Dobrik, and Casey Neistat -- is taking a decidedly more fashion-forward approach with its latest collaboration.

  
• Rooster Teeth Takes Board Games Literally In New Unscripted Series ‘Hardcore Tabletop’
• YouTube Premium Is Readying 50 Originals For 2019. Here’s The Kind Of Content It’s Looking For.
• YouTube Music Inks Two-Year Sponsorship Deal With The American Music Awards
• BuzzFeed’s Tasty Launches ‘Talent Program’ With Star Chefs To Branch Beyond Core Recipe Format
• YouTuber True Geordie, The Commentator For KSI And Logan Paul’s Match, Launches Mobile Boxing Game
• Lucas The Spider Builds On Burgeoning Merch Empire With Limited Edition Backpacks
• YouTube Luminary NikkieTutorials Drops Third Collab With Indie Beauty Brand Ofra
• Twitch Prime Will Rescind Ad-Free Viewing Beginning Next Month
• Second Season Of Netflix’s ‘American Vandal’ Will Seek To Unmask ‘The Turd Burglar’ (Trailer)
• High School Sports Content Studio ‘Mars Reel’ Raises $4.7 Million From Otter Media, Drake, Others
• Insights: Stage 13’s Emmy Nominee Alexis Denisof On Shakespeare, Shorts, ‘Bekka’, And ‘Buffy’
• 35% Of Millennials and 42% Of Gen Z Share Their Streaming Service Passwords (Study)
• Some Twitch Users’ Private Messages Were Exposed To Other Users. Here’s How To Check If You’re One Of Them.
• Philip DeFranco Testing New Show Format To Avoid “Suppressed” YouTube Videos
• Mired In Controversy, Elon Musk Sits Down For Lighthearted Chat With YouTuber Marques Brownlee
• Gleam Futures Signs Aussie Travel Vloggers And Fashion Entrepreneurs Kane And Pia
• Netflix Is Testing Personalized “Surfacing Recommendations” — AKA Ads — Between Episodes
• Laura Lee Apologizes For Racist Tweets Amid Loss Of 240,000 Subscribers In Roughly 1 Week
• Study Finds Streaming Service Usernames And Passwords For Sale On Dark Web
• Viacom Lays Off A Number Of AwesomenessTV Employees