News

• Snapchat is changing how creators earn money–and making it harder for them to start
• CoryxKenshin disappeared from YouTube 18 months ago. Now he’s back–with a big announcement.

  The animated trailer for 'Monsters We Make' features all the classic hallmarks of the Japanese anime series Williams has enthused about for years: a neon-splashed sci-fi city, a ragtag team of heroes, big monsters, and even a bishie or two.

  
• Have you heard? More FaZe drama, LegalEagle’s big lawsuit, and AMP’s favorite bear

  Grace van Dien sniped at FaZe Clan critics, LegalEagle sued the FBI and CIA, and ImDavisss brought a bear to an AMP stream.

  
• YouTube is still the most familiar platform among America’s teens

  YouTube is still the mostly widely-used social media platform among teens, according to the latest data from Pew Research Center.

  
• Everything’s going up for YouTube on TVs: Sports viewership, 4K uploads, and the price
• Instagram gives creators a trial run for their Reels
• ‘Hot Ones’ host First We Feast gets new owners (including Sean Evans himself) in $82.5 million deal
• Was Sora trained on Marques Brownlee’s videos?
• Trisha Paytas is following up her ‘SNL’ cameo with a one-night-only Broadway show
• 9.5 million new streamers hit “Go live” on Twitch this year
• YouTube says hello, hola, and नमस्ते by expanding auto-dubbing to educational creators
• Podcasters influenced the 2024 election, so Spotify is setting up shop in D.C.
• Nearly two-thirds of sports content is consumed via streaming, but repetitive ads are frustrating fans
• TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers
• YouTube’s gaming hub Playables is getting competitive
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 12/08/2024
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 12/08/2024
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Ronaldo, Ryan Trahan, robots
• “You have a community of creatives”: Twitch faces backlash over new AI-generated emote
• U.S. TikTokers are preparing for a ban by promoting their YouTube and Instagram channels
• Have you heard? ‘Squid Game’ hits the Champs Elysees, Hawk Tuah has a crypto problem, and NPC Miles Morales gets real
• D.C. Court of Appeals upholds U.S. TikTok ban, setting up likely Supreme Court case
• Spotify says its platform is the place for established video creators to tap a new audience
• Nielsen and TikTok say they’ve struck a first-of-its-kind deal for ad metrics. Is it really that groundbreaking?