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7 Best Fanvue Alternatives for Creators in 2026
Fanvue's 15% intro rate jumps to 20% after month 12. The 7 best alternatives in 2026, ranked by creator take-home and revenue stack, with Fanvault (8%) leading the pack.
MrBeast's Feastables missed by half a billion. Investors are threatening to sue.
Early Feastables backers have hired lawyers and are preparing legal action against Jimmy Donaldson over image-rights and exclusivity breaches, after the snack brand missed its $520M 2025 target by hundreds of millions.
The company that owns Vimeo, WeTransfer, and StreamYard just IPO'd. Creator infrastructure is now public.
Milan's Bending Spoons raised $1.68 billion in a Nasdaq IPO on July 1, closed up 40%, and now sits at a ~$25.7B market cap. The company owns Vimeo, WeTransfer, StreamYard, and Splice, which means the creator toolchain just got its first public-market proxy.
Netflix just bought BuzzFeed, Vogue, and Variety's video pipes. YouTube is the target.
Netflix just licensed BuzzFeed, Vogue, Variety, and three more publishers to push short, personality-driven video onto its homepage. The target is YouTube.
Charli D'Amelio Says Nearly Eight Figures Went Missing While Her Parents Ran the Accounts
A Deuxmoi tip claims nearly eight figures vanished from Charli D'Amelio's personal accounts on her parents' watch. She quietly exited D'Amelio Brands six months before the story broke.
The billionaires' favorite podcaster just told $50 million to walk.
Fortune says David Senra has turned down roughly 15 offers to buy Founders, including one valued above $50M. His solo podcast is the loudest 2026 argument for the ownership-first creator business.
Kaceytron just got her fifth Twitch ban. She was arguing with chat about her sobriety while driving.
Twitch pulled Kaceytron offline on July 5 after she argued with chat about her sobriety mid-drive to McDonald's. Her 5th ban lands one week after the ExtraEmily crackdown, and the platform is quietly redrawing the line for every creator streaming from the driver's seat.
Two ex-Fortnite mapmakers just outsold Apex and Overwatch with a $5 game.
Two Japanese ex-Fortnite mapmakers built Meccha Chameleon in eight weeks and sold 15 million copies at $5.99, with zero ad spend. The cleanest 2026 receipt yet for owning your own storefront.
Aaron Phypers wants half of Denise Richards' $250K-a-month OnlyFans. A judge gave him $5K.
Aaron Phypers wants 50% of Denise Richards' OnlyFans income in their July 7 divorce, arguing he owns the photos. Here's what a $250K-a-month case means for every creator with a partner behind the camera.
Kai Cenat snubbed Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy launched Rapper University.
Kai Cenat left Soulja Boy off the Streamer University 2026 roster. Within hours, Soulja launched a Twitch-based knockoff called Rapper University, and the 'university' format for creator bootcamps is officially a genre.
DreamDoll Brii was gunned down in a Miramar Lambo. She had 450K followers and just turned 21.
DreamDoll Brii, a 21-year-old South Florida creator with roughly 450K combined followers, was shot dead in a targeted 5:30 AM drive-by on a lime-green Lamborghini Urus in Miramar. Miramar police say the SUV was 'deliberately targeted' and no suspect is in custody.
A Brazilian YouTuber just pulled 21 million viewers off Globo.
CazéTV's Brazil vs. Japan stream peaked at 21.1M concurrent viewers on June 29, believed to be the largest live stream in YouTube's history and roughly 6x what Casimiro Miguel drew at the 2022 World Cup. Here's how a Rio streamer took the World Cup off Globo in the demographic that actually matters.
YouTube just killed BrandConnect. Brand deals now live inside Google Ads.
YouTube dissolved BrandConnect into Google Ads on July 1, 2026, expanding its new Gemini-powered Creator Partnerships hub to the UK, Germany, Japan, and Singapore. Brand deals now sit next to search and DV360 inventory, matched to 3M+ YouTube Partner Program creators.
Dude Perfect built its own theme park. It opens July 11 with real bulldozers.
Dude Perfect just co-branded a permanent construction-themed park with Dig World at Grapevine Mills, opening Saturday. It is the loudest signal yet that top creators are leasing physical square footage instead of dropping merch.
Jay Shetty just pulled his podcast off YouTube for a $100M Netflix and Spotify deal.
Jay Shetty is yanking On Purpose off YouTube for a multi-year Netflix and Spotify video pact reportedly worth up to $100 million, the first time the two streaming rivals have jointly bankrolled a single creator.
Kai Cenat killed his Twitch exclusivity. A million viewers watched him do it.
Kai Cenat broke a nine-month silence with his first-ever Twitch + YouTube simulcast, peaking at 708,563 on Twitch and 400K+ on YouTube. The Twitch loyalist who turned down $60M from Kick just made multistreaming the default posture at the top of the market.
How to Run an Authenticated Memorabilia Auction on Fanvault in 2026
A step-by-step guide to running an authenticated memorabilia auction on Fanvault in 2026, from provenance capture to reserve pricing, anti-snipe windows, and payout.
MrBeast just crossed $300 million. The gap to number two is $235 million.
MrBeast topped the Forbes 2026 Top Creators list at $300M, 4.6x ahead of #2 Dhar Mann. The gap tells you what kind of industry the creator economy actually is now.
IShowSpeed anchors FIFA's first YouTube Creator Cup, and 25 creators just became a World Cup broadcast lane
FIFA made 25 creators its World Cup broadcast lane. IShowSpeed leads the inaugural YouTube FIFA Creator Cup in Central Park on July 12, with 350M+ subscribers behind him.
How to Run Your First Memorabilia Auction on Fanvault in 2026
A step-by-step guide to running your first authenticated memorabilia auction on Fanvault, from picking the item to setting a reserve, using proxy bidding, and shipping the win.
The top 50 creators just cleared $1 billion. It's a founder story now, not a YouTuber one.
Forbes' 2026 Top 50 Creators list crossed $1.02 billion in combined earnings for the first time, up 20% from 2025. The bigger read: the top of the ranking stopped competing on views and started competing as media founders.
MrBeast and Kai Cenat set a fake house on fire for a $310K July 4 stream
MrBeast and Kai Cenat spent a month building a 1:1 replica of Cenat's streaming room in a field, then blew it up on Twitch in front of 457,400 viewers, giving away $310,000 and nearly getting Cenat banned. Here's what the stunt actually costs, and why the real creator moat isn't the fireworks.
7 Best Fanvue Alternatives for Creators in 2026
Fanvue's 85/15 rate is promotional only, so most creators move to 80/20 after 12 months. Here are 7 Fanvue alternatives in 2026, ranked on real fee economics and features.
Amazon and Spielberg just bought a YouTube horror series in an 11-studio war
Amazon MGM, Amblin, and United Artists just won an 11-studio bidding war for The Mandela Catalogue, the YouTube analog-horror series 22-year-old Alex Kister built in his Wisconsin bedroom starting at age 17.