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Giggly Squad just landed at SiriusXM. The bidding war reportedly hit $150 million.
SiriusXM signed Giggly Squad to a four-year exclusive after reportedly outbidding Amazon and incumbent Acast for a show that started as a free Instagram Live in 2020. Two ex-Summer House cast members just repriced the celebrity-podcast market at nine figures.
Megan Botnick just turned down $75,000 for a fanfix. Her TikTok went off.
Megan Botnick turned down $75,000 from Fanfix while paying off two credit cards, and her TikTok forced the creator economy to answer a question it usually avoids: what does 2.2 million followers actually buy you?
Car influencer James Wehr just died in a McLaren fireball. Cops had pulled him over five hours earlier.
James Wehr, cofounder of South OC Cars and Coffee, died in a fiery McLaren crash in Irvine early Sunday. Newport Beach police had stopped the same car for a loud exhaust five hours earlier and let him off with a warning.
A Turkish documentarian just cracked YouTube's global top 10. Ruhi Çenet added 400,000 subs in a week.
A Turkish long-form documentarian just added 400,000 YouTube subs in one week, cracking Tubefilter's global top 10 on the back of a 49-million-view Hasidic Brooklyn documentary and an Asmongold reaction.
Ziwe and Mark Vins just opened TIFF. YouTube's creators walked the same red carpet as Hollywood.
YouTube took over TIFF opening day with the inaugural Variety x YouTube Creator Festival, premiering Ziwe and Mark Vins on the same red carpet the festival reserves for studios. The creator ceiling just moved to feature-length.
Disney just handed the El Capitan red carpet to creators, and a Technoblade tribute is opening the show
Disney opens the El Capitan Theatre to a creator-made short for the first time in 100 years. 350 creators, a Technoblade tribute from Sticks, and the CEO taking the stage on day two.
Roblox just handed creators a daily paycheck. The wallet drops in December.
Roblox unveiled an Airwallex-powered Wallet and a 2027 debit card at RDC, ending the monthly Robux-to-USD wait for U.S. creators starting December. Creators pulled in $1.7B over the past year; soon they'll get paid every business day.
Kai Cenat quit streaming for nine months. Vivet just walked New York Fashion Week.
Kai Cenat vanished from Twitch for nine months to build a real fashion brand in Italy. On Saturday, Vivet debuted at NYFW with Lauryn Hill and Law Roach front row, and the whole collection went on sale the same night.
Jynxzi just muscled into Twitch's #2 seat. Rainbow Six built him, everything else made him.
Twitch's 2026 State of Gaming report puts Jynxzi at 78M hours watched, second only to the platform's top slot. Only 23% of it came from the game that made him famous.
Jake and Logan Paul just got rehired by Disney. Their fight-competition show hits Hulu and ESPN.
Hulu and ESPN co-greenlit a fight-competition series from Jake and Logan Paul, nine years after Disney fired them both. It's the receipt from a decade-long creator-economy power flip.
MrBeast just signed a multi-year deal with Google. Gemini goes inside every stunt.
Google's multi-year deal with MrBeast puts Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air inside every stunt. Sundar Pichai personally signed off. Here's what it means for the rest of the creator economy.
Netflix just signed its second YouTuber in three weeks. Drew Binsky's 197 countries land September 19.
Netflix's Drew Binsky licensing deal is its second YouTuber signing in eight days, with a 197-country library going day-and-date on the streamer September 19. The pace is the story, and YouTube's counter-offers aren't holding.
Hard Fork's Kevin Roose and Casey Newton just walked from The New York Times. Their new show could clear $5 million a year.
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton left NYT three months ago. Bloomberg says their new AI podcast is in advanced talks for up to $5M a year, with seven-figure offers already on the table.
IShowSpeed just backflipped Apple's $1,999 foldable iPhone on the launch floor
Apple handed IShowSpeed a $1,999 unreleased foldable iPhone Duo on its launch floor. He backflipped it clean on livestream, and Apple's event peaked at 3.4M concurrent viewers.
Markiplier just became GoPro's biggest shareholder. 48 hours later, the company sold.
On August 20, Markiplier filed a Schedule 13G disclosing an 8.5% passive stake in GoPro. Forty-eight hours after the story broke, GoPro sold itself for $285M, and the YouTuber walked with roughly $15.4M in cash.
Dude Perfect just lost its first CEO. The creator-corporate playbook cracked.
Andrew Yaffe, the NBA veteran hired to professionalize Dude Perfect after its $100M+ Highmount raise, is out after 22 months. The board and the CEO 'developed different perspectives on the company's next phase.' Here's what it means for every creator brand taking institutional money.
N3on just quit being a human. His AI clone is streaming while he sleeps.
N3on told 11.9M people he was going to bed and letting an AI version of himself run his Kick channel 24/7. Twenty-four hours later, he was on stream saying it wasn't AI at all.
X just killed revenue sharing. Original Content Rewards goes live today.
X shut off Creator Revenue Sharing at 11:59pm last night and opened applications for Original Content Rewards this morning. Only impressions from paying Premium subscribers count now, and the eligibility floor jumped to 500,000 verified views in 90 days.
Alex Cooper's Unwell just dropped 16 reality stars in a $250,000 YouTube cage match
Unwell Summer Games premieres today with 16 reality stars, a $250K purse, and a Love Is Blind producer running the room. Cooper's $500M media empire no longer needs a Hulu or a Netflix deal to make TV.
Amelia Dimoldenberg is closing Chicken Shop Date. Twelve years, done.
Amelia Dimoldenberg is closing Chicken Shop Date after 12 years and a billion YouTube views, walking out with a BBC drama and an Amazon MGM rom-com in hand. The exit is the clearest 2026 data point on what creator-owned IP is actually worth in Hollywood.
Alix Earle just crossed over to Netflix. TikTok's It Girl gets her own reality show September 4.
Alix Earle's Netflix reality series 'Earle Meets World' drops all eight episodes September 4, 2026, produced by the studio behind The Kardashians. Here's what her deal actually means for the other 99.9% of creators.
Lucan Pevidor just added 2 million subs. Three weeks in a row.
Lucan Pevidor just topped Tubefilter's Global Sub Top 50 for three straight weeks, adding 2 million subscribers each week of 8/23 and 8/30. YouTube's fastest-growing channel in August 2026 is a Portuguese-language Shorts creator most American creator media hasn't learned to spell yet.
Instagram Bonuses Just Started Paying for Photos and Carousels
Instagram just extended its invite-only Bonuses program to photos and carousels, cutting checks for static posts for the first time. For photo-first creators locked out of every platform payout scheme for five years, the format finally has a paycheck attached.
Rockstar just put N3on in GTA 6. His trunk challenge became an NPC.
Rockstar dropped 26 minutes of GTA 6 gameplay on Netflix August 27, and inside it, a Kick streamer named N3on became an NPC in a trunk. He watched it happen live.
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