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• Facebook Reportedly Testing New Instagram Dashboard Within Its Creator Studio Tool
• Jukin Media Names AOL And PopSugar Vet Liz Ryan Head Of Sales

  Jukin Media, the user-generated video giant whose owned and operated brands like People Are Awesome, FailArmy, and The Pet Collective reach 180 million followers globally, has announced its first senior executive in New York City.g in December.

  
• Creators Going Pro: Stan Prokopenko And His Team Use YouTube To Teach Art Students Around The World — And Make A Living Doing It

  Stan Prokopenko started with a website. After graduating art school Watts Atelier and sticking around for another five years to teach the students following in his footsteps, Prokopenko wanted to reach more artists in training. Figuring out how to do it was the tricky part. He launched a website in 2009, and used it to post written and illustrated lessons instructing denizens of the internet on art essentials like anatomy and perspective. He even earned advertising money from the site -- but not much. Not nearly enough for art education to be his full-time job.

  
• Amazon Taps ‘Game Of Thrones’ EP Bryan Cogman For ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Prequel

  Amazon has tapped one of the hottest creatives in TV for its forthcoming Lord Of The Rings prequel series. Bryan Cogman, who has worked on the HBO fantasy epic Game Of Thrones for the past eight seasons -- starting out as an assistant to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and rising to the role of co-executive producer -- has joined the Lord Of The Rings project, Deadline reports.

  
• YouTube Sets Sights On Primetime Emmy Nods For Will Smith, ‘Cobra Kai’, ‘Wayne’
• YouTube Cracks Down On Videos Instructing Viewers To Ingest Bleach As ‘Miracle’ Medical Cure
• Jaclyn Hill, Who Has Proven Her Retail Prowess, To Launch Namesake Beauty Brand
• YouTube Will Soon Only Display Abbreviated — And Not Exact — Subscriber Counts
• Bisexual Vlogger Jessie Paege Launches Tarte Eyeshadow Palette For Pride Month
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 5/19/2019
• BuzzFeed Studios Head Lauren Dolgen Departs For Paramount Network
• VidCon Hires First Content Director, Enters Original Programming Fray With Inaugural Series