News

• Google’s Veo 3 AI model is scary good at generating videos. Creators and viewers should be prepared.
• Creator-investor Caspar Lee levels up his venture capital firm with $45 million fund

  Creator Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by former YouTube creator Caspar Lee, has raised $45 million.

  
• For the first time, brands are spending the biggest chunk of their budgets on YouTube’s connected TV ads

  In Q1 2024, brands were spending 24% of their campaign dollars on YouTube's TV ads. This means their spending has nearly doubled in just a year.

  
• Dubai wants more creators. So it’s offering to get them Golden Visas.

  Dubai has increasingly become a center of content creation, thanks in no small part to government outreach. One of its biggest moneymakers is tourism, so it wants content creators to live there and share footage of its enormous high-rises, luxury experiences, and gourmet cuisine on social media, where people might see it and book their own trips to the city.

  
• Want recipes from one of the internet’s favorite chefs? Step into Nick DiGiovanni’s kitchen.
• Top streaming platforms premiered 116 fewer original shows in 2024 compared to 2022
• Publicis Groupe entered the creator space with a $500M Influential acquisition. Now it’s picking up Captiv8 too.
• Visional Pop is the newest firm turning kid-friendly animated YouTube channels into franchises
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2009, a ‘New Moon’ ushered in the next phase of movie marketing
• Airrack offers up $100,000 position through “YouTube’s greatest editor competition”
• RHEI partners with the Professional Fighters League
• Althea Lim wants Gushcloud to be an all-in-one income growth ecosystem for creators
• Critical Role is the latest creator act filling movie theaters
• ‘Fortnite’ used AI to make Darth Vader’s voice. SAG-AFTRA is mad it didn’t call first.
• On the new streaming hub Shibuya, fans decide which stories continue on
• VRChat is loading into the creator economy with an avatar store
• Artistic AI startup Promise goes full speed ahead, lands Google investment and partnership
• ‘Amazing Digital Circus’ maker Glitch gets another big–and non-exclusive–streaming deal
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels • Week Of 05/18/2025
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: MrBeast in Mexico, the Sidemen in streaming, and also the Met Gala
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 05/18/2025
• Here’s what YouTubers like Supercar Blondie, Dhar Mann, and Yes Theory get from joining Dubai’s Creators HQ
• Disney’s plan for pre-summer advertising? Get Blippi on board (literally).
• With worldwide push, MrBeast tests the power (and limits) of his famous name