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• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Coffeezilla lawsuit, demonic asylums, and the last great Trump/Biden debate (kinda)
• Can Michael Bay make Skibidi Toilet the next cinematic universe?

  For the uninitiated, Skibidi Toilet absolutely skyrocketed to popularity last summer. It's a series of short, lo-fi, computer-generated videos set in a world where a vast army of toilets with heads in them face off against a rival force of characters with things like TVs, CCTV cameras, and megaphones for heads. It's made by self-taught Russian animator Alexey Gerasimov, and first went live in February 2023.

  
• YouTube is “closing the gap” between Shorts and long-form monetization

  YouTube executives say the platform saw "healthy" growth in watch time and "strong" growth in subscriptions in Q2 2024, which in turn helped drive its ad revenue to $8.66 billion for the quarter--a 13% jump year over year from the $7.7 billion it made in Q2 2023.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 07/21/2024

  MrBeast is getting 100+ million views per video. The Stokes Twins don't get that kinda viewership, but they do get closer than almost anyone else.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 07/21/2024
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: 50 YouTubers, a million dollars, and one MrBeast sponsorship
• Twitch unbans Trump, former president now free on all major platforms
• Creators should be able to license music from major artists. Lickd lets them do it for as little as $8 a song.
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 07/14/2024
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 07/14/2024
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: A genre grab bag
• MrBeast crosses 300 million YouTube subscribers. He gets 50 of the top creators in the world to compete for $1 million to (kinda) celebrate.