News

• Former OnlyFans CEO’s new platform goes softcore to become “the HBO of social media”
• Nas Daily’s AI ecom biz just closed a $27 million round led by Vinod Khosla

  He's raised a $27 million Series A for Nas.com, a platform he says will let "solopreneurs" turn a single product image into an ecommerce business, complete with a brand name and logo, digital storefront, and generated ads to spam out on social media.

  
• Sick of slop? YouTube now has a workaround that effectively turns off Shorts.

  An update to a YouTube feature that lets users "take a break" now permits the complete silencing of the Shorts feed.

  
• Courts and governments say social platforms harm teens’ mental health. Here’s what the teens think.

  A survey from the Pew Research Center found that most teens feel they have appropriate relationships with social media platforms.

  
• Want to know why streamers are hungry for live sports? Check out NBC’s Olympics viewership.
• RedNote goes west with U.S. hires, creator outreach, and its version of TikTok Shop
• Northernlion is holding a 6-day fan “supercruise.” But he’s not the only creator traveling with viewers.
• At Coachella, Justin Bieber flipped the camera — and reminded us how YouTube changed everything
• With The Overlap’s acquisition of Mark Goldbridge’s channels, the soccer world bets on YouTube
• YouTube joins Peacock with official live coverage of Eurovision in the U.S.
• YouTube is actually giving viewers fewer ads on livestreams
• Jacksepticeye is making a Bloodborne movie
• Roblox’s new Plus program will pay creators for signups–and eat the cost of item discounts so their earnings don’t go down
• College is a great place to be a creator, so Gen Z is chasing scholarships on TikTok
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• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 04/12/2026
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: “Can you hear me now?”
• YouTube just made a Shorts deepfake machine so creators don’t have to be in their own videos
• Have you heard? Gaming Historian says so long, Ms. Rachel sells shoes, and TikTok ad exec moves on.
• NAB Show wants to be the meeting ground for creators and legacy entertainment: “These two segments have so much to offer each other right now”
• Hoorae returns to Issa Rae’s web series roots with “Screen Time” microdrama
• Kylie Jenner brings “star power and aura” to hydration product k2o, launched in tandem with Night
• Hollywood has a lot to learn from creator animators (and their IPs), YouTube says in latest Culture & Trends report
• Khaby Lame’s $975 million stock deal isn’t looking nearly as lucrative as advertised