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• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Trampolines, time travel, tater tots
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/08/2024

  Cristiano Ronaldo's activity on YouTube is bringing more views to soccer channels, even if they cover sports in name only.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/08/2024

  Celia Reina represented her home country of Spain in this week's Global Top 50, which features many YouTube Shorts creators.

  
• Roblox wants to be its own Billboard

  Billboard may run the music industry's official performance rankings, but YouTube and TikTok also have their very own charts tracking what music is popping with their user bases. And soon, those platforms will be joined by Roblox, which announced that as part of its partnership with indie music distributor DistroKid, it'll start publishing its own charts in 2025.

  
• Twitch is giving streamers more control over when ads run and how much revenue they make
• One view, two views, Dr. Seuss is on YouTube
• Icon wants to create a LOT of AI ads for brands (with creators’ consent)
• The U.S. TikTok ban has lost one-third of its public support since March 2023
• YouTube gears up for election season by enlisting creators to combat deepfakes
• VidCon has (reportedly) been sold
• YouTube wants to shield teens from eating disorder videos. Parents can help.
• Some big streamers are leaving YouTube for Twitch. Does data say that’s the right move?
• Will ‘Who TF Did I Marry?’ TV show lead a wave of TikTok adaptations?
• Wasserman commits to creators with acquisition of Long Haul Management
• NBC’s NFL broadcasts add TikTokers to answer YouTube’s “Creator of the Week”
• Are Kai Cenat and iShowSpeed Hollywood’s new indie darlings? One director thinks so.
• Minecraft’s gotten more than a trillion views online. Can it champion the box office?
• YouTube wins gold with 40 billion minutes of Olympic watch time, compared to 23.5 billion for NBC
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Wipeout, Wukong, and an internet rabbit hole
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/01/2024
• Yes, TikTok is actually getting people to movie theaters
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/01/2024
• Spotter’s new AI-driven “brainstorm partner” is getting creators 49% more views
• Instagram opens comments on Stories as a new way to soft-launch your relationship