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• Edits, Instagram’s answer to CapCut, surges up App Store charts after receiving wide rollout
• Content localization can give creators whole new audiences. Linguana wants to make it easy and affordable.

  
• 20 Years of YouTube: In 2005, a trip to the zoo started it all

  20 years ago, Jawed Karim made "me at the zoo" the first video on YouTube. Here's what we can learn from the elephants.

  
• On YouTube’s 20th birthday, it has 20 billion videos

  As of this month, there are 20 trillion total videos uploaded to YouTube, the Google-owned company said in a blog post. And, "Fittingly for our 20th birthday, we found that on average, there are over 20 million videos uploaded daily to YouTube," it added.

  
• Cannes Lions’ creator programming is back–and bigger. Here’s what you can expect from LIONS Creators 2025.
• Roblox introduces regional pricing to unlock creator revenue around the world
• xQc is making a $250,000 bet on the hot new esport
• YouTube videos with “negative interactions” are impacting kids’ mental health, study finds
• Welcome to Big Tech Easter: YouTube, Meta, and Amazon all get sponsor spots at the White House Egg Roll
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: MrBeast, Ryan Trahan, Mark Rober
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels • Week Of 04/20/2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 04/20/2025
• Instagram wants to instill a sense of community with collaborative “storylines”
• Have you heard? Kyedae’s retirement, a Sidemen scoop, and the end of ChatGPT Ghibli memes.
• Gamer Supps gets a new creator investor–one who’s driven eight figures in sales for it
• Creators want to own their audiences. That’s why 59% of them now identify as entrepreneurs.
• After Sunday Ticket success, YouTube wants exclusive NFL broadcasts of its own
• The breakup of Google’s ad business is looking more likely. Will other tech giants be next?
• A TikToker is suing Roblox for stealing her Charli XCX dance
• TikTok is turning its community into fact-checkers
• Advertisers hoping to reach under-18 viewers on YouTube can keep PACE with a new tool
• OpenAI wants more training data. So it’s building the next X.
• Despite ban threats, TikTok has never been more popular among U.S. teens
• The creator industry NEEDS your POV–and you can get $250 by giving it