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• YouTube Music celebrates 10th anniversary by showing you which bands are in town
• Pinterest opens up a Thrift Shop for Gen Z

  Pinterest is serving Gen Z consumers who prefer to buy their clothes secondhand by opening up a hub called Thrift Shop.

  
• Bean there, done that: Hank Green’s focus aid soars to top of App Store charts

  Hank Green created an app that uses a cute bean-shaped characters to improve focus. It reached the top of the App Store charts.

  
• YouTube’s new Effect Maker puts it in competition with TikTok and Snapchat

  YouTube's Effect Maker is rolling out widely, and it offers Shorts' answer to Snapchat's Lens Studio and TikTok's Effect House.

  
• Gushcloud expands into Abu Dhabi, hoping to help MENA’s top creators go global
• The White House is bringing MAGA memes to TikTok
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2020, a mass reckoning came to the creator world
• Is this the start of Roblox’s own Adpocalypse?
• ESPN is hiring creators. It will feature them on an in-app, TikTok-style feed.
• TikTok’s college-centric update is a nod to OG Facebook
• Netflix’s continued creator push brings Mark Rober on board
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: MrBeast, Dave Ramsey, a battery, and an otamatone walk into a bar
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/17/2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/17/2025
• Webtoon is turning top webcomics into bite-sized anime, hoping to appeal to TikTok audiences
• And the Oscars broadcast goes to…YouTube?
• YouTube’s new Shorts ads give kudos to creators
• What if Quibi, with AI? MicroCo thinks it can be Hollywood’s minidrama king for cheap
• Have you heard? Super Simple Songs throws “surprise party,” JeromeASF makes money moves, and Jake Shane gets cast.
• YouTube has more challengers than ever, but it’s just getting bigger
• ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ has taken over Netflix and the pop charts. Now you can sing along in movie theaters.
• What happens when creators don’t want to pay for Guinness World Records?
• Fox’s Tubi is doubling down on creators and bringing in a long-serving TikTok exec to lead to push
• Creators’ channels keep getting hacked by crypto shills. They want YouTube to protect them–but YouTube’s accounts are getting hacked, too.