August 19, 2022

Creator Economy

• Emma Chamberlain is featured on the cover of Vogue

• Sidemen partner with Topps Trading Cards

• Dude Perfect announces a cruise experience

• YouTube and Twitch Streamers Sykkuno, Grace Van Dien Sign With UTA

• YouTubers have moved from true-crime storytelling to trying to solve cases

• What it's like to be a full-time Minecraft builder and YouTuber

• Tony the Tiger becomes a VTuber and will stream on Twitch

• Emma Chamberlain Founded Coffee Company Closes $7 Million Series A Funding

• Teen usage of YouTube is higher then other apps

• Move Over Google. TikTok Is the Go-To Search Engine for Gen Z

• Snapchat+ now has 1M subscribers, introduces new features

• Cameo launches new product, live video calls with celebs

• YouTube Advances Plans for Streaming Video Marketplace

Business & Entrepreneurship

• Why Developers Are Building so Many Side Projects

• Omnicron Starts Gaming Unit for In-Game Ads

• Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups List

• Shopify launches Collabs, a new way for creators to earn revenue on the platform

• Newsletter entrepreneur that brought in $40 million in revenue last year shares how she scaled her side hustle

• Prominent streamer plans to make the metaverse marketing ecosystem more accessible

• YouTube Executive Shares a Work Diary from BeautyFest

• This $23 million YouTube music royalties heist is a huge reminder that online copyright is deeply flawed

• Bang Energy is under fire for its use of music on TikTok

• TikTok now offers a very basic text-to-image AI generator directly in the app

• Along’s new mobile App lets creators record “infinite length” video collabs

• Paramount+ to Be Bundled With Walmart+ Membership Program

• Penn purchases remainder of Barstool Sports for $387 million

Web3

• Read the 13-page pitch deck an NFT-minting startup used to raise $4.6 million

• Blockchain VC Shima Capital debuts with $200M Web3 fund

• CoinFund launches $300M early-stage Web3 venture fund

• ENS reaches 2 million names created – top holder owns 35k domains

Content

• Streamer Myth gives a retrospective on his Twitch career.

• Twitter Thread of the best productivity YouTube videos

• Decoldest Crawfiord NIL deal goes viral on Twitter

• TikToker tests the 6 degrees of separation theory

• The Colin and Samir Show: The nearly impossible job of managing MrBeast: An interview with Reed Duchscher

• Fortnite launches latest crossover, Dragon Ball Z

Jobs

• Unspeakable Media -- Thumbnail Artist

• Courtreezy -- Executive Assistant

• TBNR Productions -- Executive Assistant & Creative Strategist

• MrBeast -- Senior Producer & Lead Content Strategist (Producer/Writer)

• Night Media -- Talent Coordinator, LA