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• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Lunchly, luxury cars, and a long look at online scammers
• YouTube is the latest platform dealing with music rights issues

  Music videos from Adele, Nirvana, R.E.M., and Kendrick Lamar are unavailable on YouTube due to a dispute with rights organization SESAC.

  
• A quarter of indie artists now put their music straight on TikTok–no label required

  According to MIDiA's most recent music economy report, a full quarter of musicians upload their songs directly to TikTok and other platforms, completely bypassing distributors, labels, and even streaming services like Spotify. These musicians clearly recognize that TikTok can make songs go megaviral, whether that's older tracks having a resurgence thanks to a trendy dance or new songs becoming a meme-y earworm, and see the platform as a way to distribute their art directly to fans, without a middleman taking a cut of their revenue (aside from TikTok's own cut of their ad dollars, of course).

  
• More credibility for creators: Google search now recognizes them as experts

  YouTube has been battling misinformation for years, and one of its strats to slow the spread is surfacing correct information from trustworthy, authoritative experts like doctors and lawyers. And…content creators?

  
• Have you heard? Streamers want answers after Kick community’s TwitchCon harassment
• Sports fans used to follow teams. England’s soccer phenom has other ideas.
• The Tribeca Festival wants to deepen its relationship with creators
• Wait, Twitch licenses emojis?
• TikTok is attacking misinformation on multiple fronts
• Feel like you’re seeing more unskippable ads when you watch YouTube on a TV? You are. Here’s why.
• Amazon cuts out the middleman and gets its own ‘Shark Tank’
• Will Meta’s Orion change the narrative on smart glasses?
• The “moral philosopher of YouTube” has hired a Jellysmack and MTV vet as his company’s President
• Marques Brownlee’s first app isn’t getting a warm welcome
• X gives advertisers “greater transparency” by reporting its moderation efforts
• TikTok enables ad targeting on its search results
• Social shopping isn’t just popular with the youths–Millennials and Gen X are digging it, too
• 70% of creators say AI is a threat to their careers
• Old TV shows ranked among the most-watched Netflix programs during the first half of 2024
• TikTok wants you to subscribe
• YouTube’s latest animation darling gets picked up by Netflix
• TikTok Music shuts down before making it to the U.S.
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/22/2024
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Gun swords, super-small houses, Scientology