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• Liza Koshy’s Latest Hosting Gig Is A Dance Competition Series For Quibi
• Influencer Marketing Pioneer ‘Best Fiends’ Taps Joey Graceffa, LaBrant Fam For Latest Launch

  Before there was SeatGeek and Honey, there was Seriously Digital Entertainment -- the Finnish mobile gaming company behind the Best Fiends franchise, known for its myriad sponsorship pacts with countless YouTube stars.

  
• Facebook Makes First Play In Gaming Streamer Sign-Up Wars With ‘Disguised Toast’

  Facebook has officially entered the gaming streamer sign-up wars. After a crop of different creators have departed Twitch for exclusive deals with Microsoft-owned Mixer and YouTube Gaming, Facebook Gaming has inked its first exclusive deal -- with 27-year-old Jeremy ‘Disguised Toast’ Wang. 

  
• YouTube Test Matching “Edgy” Creators And Advertisers Has Resulted In Hundreds Of Thousands In Ad Dollars

  YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has published today her fourth quarterly update letter to creators, where she: teased a new policy that will help differentiate between restrictions placed on real-life violence and video game violence, addressed concerns surrounding creator burnout, and discussed improvements made to Article 17 legislation, which places a massive copyright burden on YouTube in the U.K.

  
• Esports Org ‘Rogue’ Launches Latest Accelerator Program For Teen Fortnite Players
• Google Will No Longer Allow Political Ad Targeting Based On Party Affiliation, Voter Records
• Browser Extension ‘Honey’, A Frequent Shane Dawson And MrBeast Sponsor, Acquired For $4 Billion
• Creators Going Pro: StoneMountain64 And Snoopeh Learned The Livestreaming Business The Hard Way. Now, Their Creator Incubation Company Pipeline Ensures Others Don’t Have To.
• YouTube’s Top 5 Most-Viewed Music Videos Of 2019 All Belong To Latino Artists
• Japanese Hotel Charges Guests $1 If They Agree To Stream Their Stays For 24 Hours
• Studio71 UK Talent Firm ‘Moxie’ Signs Pro-Biker Ryan Taylor, Comedian Munya Chawawa, More
• Condé Nast Reveals Latest IGTV Slate Amid Revamped Ad Strategy