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• Australia tried to keep kids off social media. Its ban has had the opposite effect.
• Microdramas have the highest ad density of any app category–and user downloads have topped 1 billion

  Microseries apps had an ad density of 1,100 in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Asia-Pacific region, "making it the only category to achieve that level of density in three regions," Marketing Dive reports. In North America, microseries apps had an ad density of 977 per app.

  
• Twitch and Amazon facing class-action lawsuit over scraping streamers’ content without their consent

  "Content creators such as plaintiff and the class members will never be able to claw back the intellectual property unlawfully copied and used by defendants to train Amazon’s generative AI," Pandiscia's suit says.

  
• YouTube expands Stations beyond music and into the realm of “creator content”

  After launching its Stations at Coachella, YouTube is expanding the FAST-like product to more types of content.

  
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• Senators question TikTok over algorithm experiment that denied users protection from dangerous content rabbit holes
• At VidSummit 2026, Dr. Plants will lay out his playbook for getting 50 million views on every video
• Would you sacrifice 6 years of your life to spend 4 days playing GTA VI?
• Brazil’s LiveMode was a big winner at the World Cup. Now it’s coming for Europe’s biggest leagues.
• After becoming China’s answer to YouTube, BiliBili has its eyes on the rest of the world
• Is Patreon planning to challenge YouTube and TikTok? CEO says the “current version of the web is a failed promise for creators and fandoms” amid rollout of 30 content tools
• YouTube is reportedly offering creators millions if they don’t sign deals with Netflix
• If you think the UNO Twitch event is a punchline, allow me to play my Reverse card
• As Vine’s successor opens its doors to the public, chalupas may make all the difference
• A new creator-financed indie horror is on the way: ‘Godmother,’ co-written by Alanah Pearce and financed by Jacksepticeye
• New details emerge regarding TikTok’s rumored plan to support direct payments
• Under pressure from Hollywood, TikTok agrees to “maintain strong guardrails” for AI content
• The founders of Kick are in the Club as their new platform comes out of beta
• They belong in a museum: Australia is putting ten well-known creators into its national archive
• YouTube’s now counting public views from the “first frame,” hoping inflated numbers will help creators negotiate brand deals