News

• Capital One Shopping hit with class action suit over alleged Honey-like practices
• Have you heard? Shroud frags for his dad, and chess gets a rules update

  Shroud raised more than $100,000 to honor his dad, chess got some patch notess, and Charli D'Amelio cleared the air surrounding her vape.

  
• Substack pledges $20 million to creators who bring their followers its way

  Substack is joining the hunt for displaced TikTok users with a Creator Accelerator Fund worth up to $20 million.

  
• Creators are getting thousands of new followers by posting Trial Reels. Was that Instagram’s plan all along?

  Instagram creators are using growth hacking tactics to benefit from the new Trial Reels. Was that the real purpose of the feautre all along?

  
• Even Tumblr is taking a stab at replacing TikTok
• Creator-made islands accounted for 1/3 of ‘Fortnite’ game time in 2024–and earned their developers $352 million
• The holidays have become the peak viewing period on streaming platforms
• Rival apps X, Bluesky are both launching their own takes on TikTok
• Trump’s inauguration stream shows that his YouTube presence could play a bigger role during his second term
• Instagram is reportedly offering TikTokers up to $50,000 per month to post on Reels
• The Paul x Tyson fight helped Netflix drive record account growth–just before it stops reporting subscriber counts
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 01/19/2025
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: A Joe Rogan threepeat
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 01/19/2025
• While everyone else goes after TikTok’s users, Instagram is wooing its creator population with a CapCut competitor
• Trump thinks he can broker a deal to keep TikTok running
• Have you heard? The Dream SMP stars are fighting and Bob Dylan is a little late to join TikTok.
• Elon Musk is big mad at Asmongold
• As the internet mourns David Lynch, fans remember his YouTube weather reports
• Ludwig, Moist Cr1TiKaL become co-owners of Shopify’s esports org “for the love of the game”
• The Supreme Court upheld the TikTok ban. Now what?
• The platform that made your career is shutting down? These Vine stars have been there.
• ‘Beast Games’ is Amazon’s most-watched unscripted series ever. But how does its viewership compare to MrBeast’s YouTube content?
• Drake thinks UMG wanted creators to make Kendrick Lamar’s diss track go viral. He’s suing over it.