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MrBeast turned Feastables into sparkling water. Liquid Death said yes.
MrBeast's Feastables just teamed with Liquid Death on a Peanut Butter Cup sparkling water, complete with a $14.99 12-pack, a biker-bar ad, and a preview of what happens when a creator has enough distribution to negotiate as a peer instead of a sponsorship.
How Fast Creators Actually Get Paid in 2026: Payout Times Compared
Payout speed splits 2026 creator platforms into three tempos. Here is how Fanvault, Fanvue, Passes, Fanfix, Patreon, YouTube, and OnlyFans actually compare on the metric that matters.
Asmongold just got banned from Twitch. Again.
Twitch pulled Asmongold's ZackRawrr channel offline for the second time in four months, and this one lands under a suspension regime that can stack a streaming ban, a chat ban, and an ad pull for the same violation.
iShowSpeed strapped himself to balloons for his 60M party. It went badly.
iShowSpeed strapped himself to giant helium balloons to celebrate 60 million YouTube subscribers on July 31. The balloons popped, he hit the ground, and the creator economy watched a subscriber milestone officially become the show.
The Creator Engagement Audit: A 2026 Framework for Fixing a Stagnant Following
A 5-layer engagement audit that maps a stagnant following to its real cause across distribution, conversion, and cadence, using the 2026 ranking signals Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube actually compute.
TikTok just shuttered Nashville and cut 250 people. Same week it inked Disney and FIFA.
TikTok closed its Nashville office and cut 250 content-moderation jobs the same week it announced a first-ever Disney content-sharing deal and the FIFA Preferred Platform partnership. Creators just got a very clear message.
Kick just opened its platform to advertisers. Three creator-first years are over.
Kick just launched Kick Ads, ending three and a half years of the ad-free promise it used to poach top streamers from Twitch. The 95/5 sub split survives, the ads are unskippable and do not pay the creator.
7 Best Fanfix Alternatives for Creators in 2026
The best Fanfix alternatives in 2026, ranked by fee economics and creator fit. Fanvault (8%), Passes, Fanvue, Fansly, Patreon, Ko-fi, and Gumroad, compared honestly.
Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed are running the Minecraft Hardcore marathon back on August 7
The two biggest personalities in streaming are rebooting their record-shattering 2024 Hardcore Minecraft co-stream on August 7 at 5pm EST, and the setup itself is the real creator-economy story.
Disney just handed TikTok creators Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars.
Disney signed a first-of-its-kind global content-sharing deal with TikTok that opens Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and FX to opted-in creators. The company that lobbied for the Mickey Mouse Protection Act is now licensing itself to fan-edit accounts, and every other rights holder is next.
The Repurposing Engine: A Framework for Turning One Piece of Content Into Ten in 2026
The Repurposing Engine is the 5-step framework top creators (Justin Welsh, Alex Hormozi, Gary Vaynerchuk) use to turn one pillar into 10+ platform-native pieces. Here is how to run it in 2026.
Alix Earle's Netflix show drops September 4. She's finally addressing the Alex Cooper feud.
Netflix set September 4, 2026 as the premiere date for Alix Earle's 8-episode series 'Earle Meets World,' and the teaser confirms she'll finally address her ugly split from Alex Cooper's Unwell Network on-camera.
Cellbit's Team Worldwide just won Streamer Games 2026. Creator IRL is bigger than most sports leagues now.
Cellbit's Team Worldwide won Ludwig's Streamer Games 2026 with 72 points and 512,984 peak concurrent viewers on Day 1. Creator-run IRL sports events aren't a stunt anymore, they're a top-tier livestream format that just embarrassed most traditional leagues.
Joe Rogan just topped Forbes at $82 million. Chelsea Handler called it 'completely uninformed.'
Joe Rogan topped Forbes' 2026 highest-paid podcasters list at an estimated $82M, and Chelsea Handler dragged the number in the comments. The whole ranking exposes how top-heavy podcasting has actually become.
MrBeast's rate card just leaked in court. $2.5 million a segment, and the ceiling of the creator economy just became a public number.
Court filings unsealed on July 31 reveal MrBeast's actual rate card: $2.5 million for one main-channel segment, plus $500,000 for a Shorts cutdown, on top of $91 million in brand deals locked in for 2025. The ceiling of the creator economy just became a public number.
Selling Signed Props and Cosplay Merch: The Ultimate Guide for Cosplayers in 2026
How working cosplayers turn signed props, prints, patterns, and paywalled shoots into 365-day income using authenticated memorabilia, wishlists, and a single storefront at an 8% platform fee.
Mitch Jones spent $500K recreating Deal or No Deal on Twitch. Endemol Shine's cease and desist arrived within days.
Twitch streamer Mitch Jones staged a $500K real-life Deal or No Deal with Sodapoppin and Nmplol as contestants. Days after the July 26 broadcast, he was reading a cease and desist letter on stream from the format's rights holders.
A viral influencer just called out a Nantucket shop's 'no influencers' sign. The internet split.
Dairy Boy founder Paige Paul torched a 100-year-old Nantucket antique shop's 'No Influencers' sign as misogyny; the shop, owned by a lifelong Nantucketer who had never heard of her, dunked back. Inside 48 hours it was in The Boston Globe, The Cut, E!, and Elite Daily.
Owned Audiences vs Followers: The Shift Every Creator Needs to Understand in 2026
Instagram feed posts now reach just 3.5% of followers while Substack paid subs jumped 68% year-over-year to 8.4M. Here is why 2026's smartest creators are trading follower counts for owned audiences, and how to build the stack.
Jake Paul and Eddie Hearn just buried the beef. Women's boxing gets an empire.
MVP and Matchroom formally allied on July 28, 2026 to co-develop women's boxing. Eddie Hearn says Jake Paul's promotion already owns 90% of the market. The 25-year incumbent had to partner with the YouTuber it once sued.
Zhong just added 1.1 million subs in a week. YouTube's growth crown is his.
Zhong added 1.1 million YouTube subscribers in the week of July 26, 2026, hitting 79.5M total and topping every channel on the planet by weekly velocity. The Shorts-first, identity-hook playbook just delivered the fastest growth in the top tier.
The Creator's Analytics Stack for 2026: What Actually Predicts Growth
The 2026 creator analytics landscape split into free native dashboards and paid tools that only earn their keep when they solve what native tools can't. Here's the stack that actually predicts growth.
The Game Theorists are trying to unionize. Their bosses are fighting back.
Roughly 20 workers at Theorist Media, home of The Game Theorists, are trying to unionize with WGA West and IATSE Local 700. Parent company Lunar X refused voluntary recognition and is forcing the fight into an NLRB election, the first serious labor push inside a top-tier YouTube studio.
YouTube Premium is bundling Peacock next year. NBCU blinked first.
NBCUniversal is handing ad-supported Peacock to YouTube Premium's roughly 125M subscribers in early 2027. The aggregator just swallowed another Hollywood catalog.