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Kane Parsons just sat next to the Oscars boss. YouTube is taking the ceremony.
The Academy sold its Oscars move to YouTube with a YouTuber at its side. Kane Parsons, whose $10M debut Backrooms passed $400M worldwide, joined Bill Kramer in Zurich, and creators should read it as a power shift.
MrBeast said his $10 million video probably wouldn't perform. It passed 51 million views anyway.
MrBeast predicted his nearly $10M Ghana village video would underperform. It passed 51 million views, and it proves fans will follow a trusted creator into formats the algorithm supposedly punishes.
Kyedae just set her Twitch comeback. October 20 ends an 18-month exit.
Kyedae updated her bios with a date: she's back on Twitch October 20, ending an 18-month break she took because she'd come to resent streaming. Her return is a live test of whether an audience waits.
YouTube pulled the MrBeast Files at 3 million views. The internet reuploaded it anyway.
InternetJanitor's "The MrBeast Files Are Really Bad" hit roughly 3 million views in four days before a copyright takedown. Reuploads, Shorts, and TikTok edits made it bigger. Here's what that means for creator income.
Lucan Pevidor just held YouTube's #1 growth spot for a fourth straight week.
Brazilian Shorts creator Lucan Pevidor added 1.6 million subscribers and topped Tubefilter's Global Sub Top 50 again, out-growing MrBeast and a flood of AI channels. Here's what his run means for creators.
Ironmouse is 26 days into her comeback subathon. Mouseathon ends October 1.
Ironmouse's Mouseathon Returns hits its final week, with half the revenue going to the Immune Deficiency Foundation. The real story is who holds the money when the timer stops.
Neal Mohan just told Meta no. YouTube won't sign on to the $18 billion teen-safety deal.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube won't join Meta's $18 billion teen-safety settlement. Meta designed that deal to pull YouTube and TikTok in, and it puts a two-hour teen cap on the table for the platform teens use most.
Logan Paul promised a 24/7 shiny hunt. He tapped out at 34 hours.
Logan Paul's nonstop Pokémon shiny hunt pulled 997K unique Twitch viewers and 2.1M YouTube views, then stalled at 34 hours with no shiny and a growing ModRetro ad backlash.
YouTube just cut off the mukbang money. Tzuyang says she'll eat less.
YouTube is enforcing its eating-disorder ad rules against Korea's food creators, and one diet YouTuber deleted 339 videos to save her channel. Tzuyang's promise to eat 'a reasonable amount' is a joke, but the lesson for creators isn't.
Sam and Colby just took Hell Week to Netflix. YouTube's scariest tradition streams October 1.
Sam and Colby's Hell Week streams worldwide on Netflix from October 1 under a non-exclusive deal. It shows that a franchise a creator owns is now something Netflix will pay to license.
Like Nastya just signed with Disney. 450 million subscribers are heading to Disney Jr.
Like Nastya, a YouTube kids' brand with 450M+ subscribers, signed its first development deal with Disney. Here's what it means for creators: a studio is now paying for an audience and a catalog that a creator built and owns.
OpenAI just poached Patreon's co-founder. ChatGPT wants a creator business.
OpenAI hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam and two senior Patreon leaders to run a new Creator Product division. The team that built a $10B payout machine now works for ChatGPT, and creators should watch DevDay closely.
YouTube just wired Gemini into every corner of the creator toolkit.
YouTube's Made on YouTube 2026 keynote wires Gemini into Shorts, Studio, brand deals, and live streams, launching Shorts Series and Live auto-dubbing. Google now wants to run the whole creator workflow, editor to sponsor.
The looksmaxxing king just got charged with rape. Clavicular allegedly livestreamed it on Twitch.
Braden Peters, aka Clavicular, is charged in Massachusetts with raping a 17-year-old at his family's Cape Cod house, allegedly on a Twitch livestream. Arraignment is Oct. 14.
PewDiePie just ended his family vlogs. His son turns 3 and Björn's privacy wins.
PewDiePie posted his final family vlog after four years in Japan. The OG of YouTube walked away from a 111M-subscriber format so his 3-year-old son can grow up off camera, and every family creator should read the memo.
X just sued two crypto influencers for allegedly bleeding $278K out of its creator payout program
X filed suit in London's High Court against two Bitcoin creators it says ran a nine-account bot farm to farm £207,384 out of Creator Revenue Sharing. It is the first named lawsuit against creators over payouts, and it changes the risk math for every engagement-weighted program on the internet.
YouTube just caved on its secret AI edits. Rick Beato and Rhett Shull made them blink.
YouTube spent months quietly running machine-learning edits on creator Shorts. Two musicians with a combined 5.8M subscribers shipped receipts, and the platform folded in under a week.
MrBeast's biggest video ever drops Saturday. He spent $10 million and says it might flop.
MrBeast spent $10M on the biggest video of his career, a self-sustaining village in Ghana for 1,062 people. He told fans it might flop, then posted it anyway.
Ms. Rachel just entered her album era. 23 songs drop September 25.
Ms. Rachel's 23-track debut album, 'I'm So Happy,' drops September 25 via Sony Music's Magic Star. It's the fifth revenue lane snapping into place around one of the highest-earning creators of 2026.
Nitro Camden's viral month is over. He just lost 90 percent of the fans that flooded him.
Nitro_Camden went from 1 viewer to a Twitch Partner in 24 hours after his mother assaulted him on stream. Three weeks later, 90 percent of the audience is gone and the fans are calling him boring.
A 9-year-old just burned $118,000 on YouTube ads. Dad's confession video hit 400k in a day.
A nine-year-old Minecraft YouTuber charged $118,000 in ads to Dad's company card over three weeks. The free confession video that followed added 24,000 subs in 48 hours and got Dad terminated.
Steven Bartlett and Authentic Brands are deploying $400 million to turn creators into the next Reebok
Steven Bartlett and Authentic Brands Group launched OBSN on September 14 with plans to deploy up to $400M into creator-led businesses. The Reebok playbook is coming for the creator economy, and ownership just became the only question that matters.
MrBeast just got hit with a class-action. Beast Games contestants say Amazon skipped their breaks.
Five anonymous contestants sued MrBeast and Amazon on September 16, 2024. Two years later, discovery is still open, and Beast Games is the first case testing whether California labor law binds creator-run productions at studio scale.
Spotify just handed 35 new countries a podcast paycheck.
Spotify just added more than 35 new countries to its Partner Program, the biggest single-day widening of a major creator-payout system in 2026. Here is what podcasters actually earn, and where the money still leaks.
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