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• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/06/2024
• Kick courted edgy creators. Now it has to deal with them.

  20-year-old Doherty has been in trouble before, but this stunt apparently was too much for the Kick team. On Oct. 5, he was driving his new $200,000 McLaren while livestreaming, and was looking down at his phone, reading messages from his community, when he lost control of the sports car and slammed into a guardrail.

  
• The Hawk Tuah girl’s fame is lasting longer than 15 minutes. How is she doing it?

  Hailey Welch, also known as the "Hawk Tuah" girl, has become a streaming and podcasting star with her own merch line and Halloween costume.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Twins, tigers, and total nightmares

  Welcome to our latest Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report, where veterans MrBeast and Kurzgesagt once again dominate--but we have some newcomers bringing a grab-bag mix: there's kids' content, hard-hitting journalism on the effects of Hurricane Helene, and a skyscraping factory built in a supremely satisfying video game. Plus we see a surge of sponsorships from Aura, an identity-protection service that sponsored our bonus video last week, and this week paid for the upload in slot #4.

  
• Cinemark expands Sam and Colby’s spooky ‘Legends of the Paranormal’ docu from 260 screens to 350 thanks to fan demand
• Have you heard? Streamer Stable Ronaldo made $1.2 million in a month — or did he?
• Dubai event 1 Billion Followers Summit returns for its third year with VidCon alums and a $1 million creator award
• The Sidemen are the new ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ and they have the merch deal to prove it
• TikTok’s answer to ‘Saturday Night Live’ is ready for primetime
• Trick shot empire Dude Perfect hires NBA content exec as first CEO
• Meta is uniting the revenue streams it has used to pay more than four million creators
• YouTube is letting Shorts be longer
• Twitch just added another path to become Partner. Will it let established streamers help up-and-comers?
• MrBallen gets graphic with a “strange, dark, and mysterious” book
• Snapchat’s Phantom House reopens its doors to celebrate spooky season
• Europe’s algorithm watchdogs request more data from YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat
• The reimagined version of ‘Punk’d’ is on YouTube with creators like Sketch and Jynxzi
• How is Nintendo so bad at letting creators share its games?
• Here’s a solution for creators’ problems with AI: Pay them.
• Ironmouse sets new Twitch sub record at 321,000
• On Broadway, Charli D’Amelio is doing what she does best: Dancing.
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/29/2024
• Brands give Amazon $1.8 billion as it challenges YouTube and Netflix for video ad budgets
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/29/2024