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• Cucumbers, cottage cheese, and probiotic soda: TikTok’s impact on grocery store shelves
• Have you heard? MrBeast vs. ‘Squid Game’, Meta vs. Congress, and YouTube vs. Russia

  Hannah Witton is helping burned-out creators, Anthony Fantano is supporting striking Amazon workers, and Kara Swisher wants to support WaPo.

  
• As athletes become YouTubers, a nine-time Olympic gold medalist is your new swim coach

  Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel is teaching swimming on a relaunched YouTube channel and a platform called Swim Academy.

  
• YouTube wants to bring back old-school discovery and let you “Play Anything”

  A "Play Something" button on the YouTube Android app revives the old-school feeling of browsing the internet.

  
• Nearly half of all streaming subscriptions are now supported by ads
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Supersonic Nerf darts and a homemade Porsche
• Is the Honey influencer marketing scam an isolated incident or a sign of a bigger problem?
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 12/22/2024
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 12/22/2024
• Right-leaning streaming hub Rumble heads to crypto land to secure $775 million investment
• Have you heard? Nick DiGiovanni set a delicious record and we learned the truth about ‘Hot Ones’
• ‘Fortnite’ creators want to know the rubric Epic Games uses for its promotions
• Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear has a new AI startup. Here’s what we know.
• Should sleep streams be banned? One platform thinks so.
• MrBeast has been on a promotional tour ahead of the ‘Beast Games’ premiere. Here’s where he went.
• Flipboard’s new app unites Bluesky, Threads, and other decentralized social networks
• YouTube’s clickbait crackdown begins in India
• You can now build your next car on TikTok
• How big was Kai Cenat in 2024? He got more watch time than the next two most-watched streamers combined
• YouTube and CAA want to make sure creators are safe from deepfakes
• Making events for streamers is a difficult business. Ludwig’s Offbrand learned that the hard way.
• The Twitch VOD situation is crazy
• Blue-collar creators are both inspirational and aspirational. They’re pioneering a new era of content creation.
• TikTok CEO meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago in last-ditch effort to thwart U.S. ban