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TikTok Shop's Black Friday drove $100 million in US sales and users viewed over 30,000 livestreams

This is insane! TikTok has effectively merged entertainment a...

YouTube’s hyperlinked comments could drive valuable traffic for Google Search

Now Google wants to innovate because AI is eating searches lu...

Controversial AI generated video summaries coming to youtube [video]

Yes but...can AI capture the tone of a video? Summarizing a s...

Gen Z media and spending habits

The classics never die :P I still crave playing snake and te...

Adobe Adds AI Video Magic Directly in Premiere Pro

I think its great that Adobe is prioritizing responsible AI u...

A Vtuber Just Became Twitch's Most-Subscribed Streamer Ever

I remember when VTubers were seen as just a niche part of the...

Drowning in Slop

The internet is literally turning into a landfill of AI-gener...

Ask CBX: How could the SAG-AFTRA strike impact future collaborations between gaming companies and voice actors?

I could see the strike shifting the power dynamics. Voice act...

YouTuber Marques Brownlee Launched a Wallpaper App, and Fans Aren’t Happy

$50 per year for HD wallpapers? That’s steep, especially when...

Mark Zuckerberg Showed New Tech That Uses AI to Fully Recreate People

Are we going to address the privacy issues here? Because rec...

Dead Internet Theory

I think people are overreacting. Theres a lot of low-quality ...

The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump

Remember when every post was all about the perfect shot with ...

From baking to MrBeast: Meet the YouTuber taking on the platform’s biggest creator

Her story is interesting, but let's not forget Mr. Dogpack wh...

Spotify Has a Fake-Band Problem. It’s a Sign of Things to Come.

The bigger issue here is copyright law. If these AI bands are...

YouTube Stars Want Some Respect

I'm not convinced YouTube will ever get the respect it wants ...

California’s Draft AI Law

The draft mentions "emergency shutdowns," but who decides whe...

Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel

This kind of controversy is why ive taken a huge STEP back in...

I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath [video]

Who would of thought someone obsessed with becoming the best ...

Threads reaches 200 million monthly active users

I think threads does a good job of keeping things "postive", ...

I'm Tired of the "Next Big Thing"

I do agree, but what if someone is genuinely interested in a ...

The Senate just passed two landmark bills aimed at protecting minors on Social Media

Not sure how social media will deal with the generic “don’t l...

MatPat, the first big YouTuber to successfully exit his company, is lobbying for creators on Capitol Hill

Wow, this is huge! Having someone like MatPat, who knows the ...

New YouTube rules will let you remove AI videos that use your likeness

I wonder how likeness works with the “fair use” policy. Like...

Tiktok Studio App

This is really great news! I love gawking at the retention gr...

DrDisrespect responds to Twitch Ban

Brother Euuughhh Why, just why. He had so much success, why ...

Everyone's talking about taste

I think taste can be considered a skill. Like the article men...

MrBeast Aims to Dethrone Prime Hydration? Lawsuit Docs Reveal Beverage Ambitions

If you think about it, consumable items are perfect because o...

Is that really a harmless tiktok trend?

It’s basically the equivalent of what happens to child stars ...

Paying creators based on engagement encourages harmful collusion

Fraud is a major issue and creators can easily game the syste...

YouTube Rolls Out In-App Games to More Users

Stadia was more cloud game streaming than direct video game d...

Influencers Against Influencers

Honestly this feels kind of pointless. It might hurt their fo...

Nearly half of Video Game players Say ‘Creation and Self-Expression’ are their main reasons for gaming

It’s studies like these that excite the VR world makers. That...

OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT

Wow that’s huge. Reddit is a data goldmine, and they know i...

ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail

I imagine it would be hard to sell off only part of their bus...

Watcher, known for their Ghost Hunting and Mystery Files are moving to streaming

The comments section of the original video is insane, lmao. ...

The Notetaking Habits Of Billionaires, Oscar-Winners, and A+ Students

Great ideas don't wait for the perfect moment; they emerge i...

Follow along with Mcguire Brannan to learn how to script a video

I never thought about using a teleprompter before but I saw o...

TikTok may add AI avatars that can make ads

AI ads? Those seem to be all over the internet already. And q...

‘Time is running out’: can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?

When AI is used to help achieve something in an honest way, t...

Who’s behind all the adult spam bots on X?

The spam accounts seem to be evolving. I see them posting wha...

Augmented Reality Use Cases 2024

I’d much prefer a world where AR is more popular than VR. It ...

How Kyla Scanlon Grew Her Audience to Over 640k Followers in Just 3 Years

Ah so it’s not just me that thinks all tiktokers are starting...

Roblox launches a $35 million fund for creators and introduces its answer to TikTok

I swear Roblox is the most pro-creator company out there at t...

Music streaming fraud frustrates Artists

It's absolutely frustrating to think you could be penalized j...

House passes a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner refuses to sell

Biden said he would sign the bill if it passes congress, so I...

A new TikTok ban gains steam

Who would realistically buy Tiktok? I mean sure, Meta could ...

Our company is doing so well that you’re all fired

It’s not necessarily that the company is doing so well, it’s ...

How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put.

Finding where things are the hardest/most challenging is wher...

How much should you pay your editor?

This seems extremely fair. There are a ton of factors and con...

Go big, even when you're small

I would say beyond vanity it’s also that the focus is differe...

Against trendbait

There have been a large amount of coined terms that are just ...

Podcast deals turn off exclusivity

The way I see it, this shift to a licensing model can be seen...

Making The Last of Us Part II [video]

So cool to watch a studio of this caliber go through the ups ...

For Gen Z, anime is bigger entertainment than the NFL

Anime is so vast with so many genres (and sub genres) that it...

TikTok Tests Feature That Could Make All Videos Shoppable

Well damn, that’s aggressive. I think tiktok is tired of no...

Riot Games was developing a Twitch competitor. Layoffs killed the project.

REN seems like it would of been an uphill battle against some...

Do people really forget you after a month

I think it depends on the content. Some content is thoughtful...

AI art is the new stock image

I haven’t felt the need to generate any AI art, it never real...

MrBeast reportedly signs Prime Video deal for new YouTube x TV series

Also shared was that the first episode of the show would deb...

The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams

I was rooting for Ello, or at least the concept. It did seem ...

Huge amount of layoffs in media and tech (company list in thread)

It’s almost like they have to because their investors expect...

At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group

Wait what?! I had no idea the CIA had its own creative writin...

Logan Paul’s “refund” [video]

Logan sure has been dragging this out, part of me thinks he’s...

Glewee releases Influencer Marketing Trends for SMBs in 2024

It’s true. Products attached to popular creators tend to mak...

10 years with Hayao Miyazaki [video]

His process is so interesting. I always laugh at how frustrat...

Instagram wants to make finstas official

Everyone deals with Instagram privacy in different ways. I ...

Tucker Carlson Is Launching His Own Streaming Service

Carlson has a polarizing reputation and there's a risk that ...

Creator economy funding plummets in 2023, as influencer marketing spend rises

My prediction: we will see even MORE marketing spend in years...

YouTube Plagiarism and Generation Loss

Algorithms will have to adopt to a world with copied content....

TikTok creators are increasingly tapping into food-centric content — and brands are following

Yeah, and can document the history of the restaurant/place/ch...

Unofficial YouTube Wrapped 2023, see top creators and watching habits

Ah, a wrapped habit that I can actually participate in! I am ...

Steals content and Tiktok still pays him for it

Clearly there is something we are missing here /s

Disinformation is part and parcel of social media’s business model, new research shows

Absolutely agree. The speed at which misinformation spreads o...

The Pokimane Cookie Controversy Is So Dumb

Lot of controversy over this product, which is pretty interes...

What It Means to be the Chief Creative Officer for Rhett & Link (Good Mythical Morning) [video]

What an insane job. You really have to be a Jack of all trade...

How Reece Feldman Became Hollywood Studios’ Gen Z Whisperer, One TikTok at a Time

Sure, they might've bent a few rules, but you can't deny the ...

YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3m Restitution

It's reassuring to AT LEAST see legal action being taken. Whi...

YouTube adds “For You” video suggestions to channel pages

I think that’s true BUT, the downside I can see is that you w...

How Luca Rossi Built the Refactoring Newsletter into a $300k Business

Im all for Lucas community-focused approach. Quality over qua...

Camps teaching kids to be YouTubers are cropping up across the country

I’m all for the children having a space to create and be crea...

ApeFest attendees report vision problems and ‘extreme pain’ after event

Another article on the subject that I found really funny: def...

Mark Cuban believes in the long-term potential of NFTs

Cuban also understands technology better than most people. Hy...

Why YouTube feels boring [video]

Platforms start to have waves of copy-catting going on when s...

Adobe and Figma are ready to show what's coming

Nice! If you can drop figma files into After Effects that wou...

LinkedIn influencers are a thing now

Never did I think I would of seen the day. Linkedin seemed to...

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