Agency

Red Seat Ventures Signs Multiyear Ad Sales & Distribution Deal With True Crime Podcast ‘Crime Weekly’

Red Seat Ventures, a creator-led media company owned by Fox Corporation, has signed a multiyear partnership...

Tech

Most Brands Think They’re Winning on YouTube But Data Shows Otherwise, Says ChannelCrawler’s Jake Kitchiner

YouTube has become the most-watched streaming platform on television screens in the United States, and sponsorship...

Platform

Meta Confirms Connect 2026 for September, Teases Wearables and AI Advances

Meta has confirmed its annual Connect conference will take place September 23 and 24 at the...

Platform

TikTok, Instagram Face EU Action Over ‘Addictive Design’ as Governments Tighten Child Protections

The European Commission plans to take regulatory action against TikTok and Instagram over platform design features...

Agency

Linqia Launches Automated Comment Tool to Turn Creator Posts Into Commerce Moments

Linqia, an independent Influencer Marketing agency, announced a new automated comment capability that allows brands to...

Agency

CYLNDR Studios Names Leah Chaney Director of Influencer to Embed Creators Into Creative Process

CYLNDR Studios has appointed Leah Chaney as Director of Influencer, a role focused on integrating creators...

Tech

Daylight Media Acquires Podcast Review in Bid to Consolidate Podcast Discovery, Editorial

Daylight Media has announced the acquisition of Podcast Review, a podcast criticism and discovery publication, from...

Agency

Source Golf Is Building a YouTube Creator Network to Chase Premium TV Ad Budgets

Television ad budgets are large, structured, and still built around premium audiences. Top YouTube channels already...

Tech

Creator Agency No Logo Launches AI Talent Agent to Bring Representation to Independent Creators

Creator agency and technology company No Logo has launched Lola, an AI-powered talent agent designed to...

Platform

OnlyFans Valued at $3.15B as Parent Company Sells 16% Stake to Architect Capital

Fenix International Ltd., the U.K.-based parent company of OnlyFans, has sold a 16% minority stake to...

Agency

Social First, Commerce Second: Chad Hetherington’s Bet That TikTok Shop Is This Decade’s Amazon 

Commerce channels rarely look inevitable at first. Amazon’s marketplace model spent years moving from one online...

Tech

Levanta Makes the Case That Creator Channels Belong Alongside Every Amazon Ad Budget   

Levanta, the Seattle-based affiliate and creator platform for e-commerce, announced in early April the acquisition of...

Commentary

Mobile Video Ad Spend Set to Surpass Mobile Search for First Time in 2026

Mobile in-app video advertising is on track to outpace mobile search spending in the U.S. this...

Strategy

NowThis Built a TV Network on Social Media. Now It’s Teaching Brands How to Advertise on One

Michael Vito Valentino does not think brands have a social video problem. He thinks they have...

Commentary

Top 10 Highest Revenue TikTok Shops in April 2026

April’s top ten tells two stories at once: medicube US Store reaches its highest revenue total...

Tech

Nexxen, ADvolution Bring Influencer-Based Voter Targeting to Political Campaigns

Programmatic advertising platform Nexxen and fandom intelligence provider ADvolution have formed an exclusive partnership to make...

Tech

Tech Company SuperAwesome Becomes Exclusive Ad Sales Partner for Tinkercast’s ‘Wow in the World’ Podcast

SuperAwesome, a data and technology company focused on Gen Alpha and Gen Z audiences, has entered...

Tech

Upfluence’s Co-CEO Says Influencer Marketing’s Revenue Era Has Arrived

For most of its history, Influencer Marketing lived in the PR department, not the revenue team....

Tech

Libsyn Opens Video Podcasting to All Creators, Launches Spotify Distribution Integration

Liberated Syndication Inc. (Libsyn) has expanded its podcast platform to include video publishing across all hosting...

Talent Collectives

FiveTwoNine’s Creator Fund Is Bringing Missing Creator Economy Voices to Advertising’s Grand Stage

For years, Cannes Lions has declared itself the home of creativity. But when Becky Owen looked...

Commentary

California Bill Giving Former Child Influencers the Right to Erase Monetized Content Clears Two Senate Committees

California legislation that would allow adults to demand the removal of compensated social media content featuring...

Talent Collectives

Sidewalker Daily’s Nina Zadeh Spent a Decade on the Brand Side. Now She Teaches Creators to Fight Back

A few years ago, Nina Zadeh sat across a negotiating table from a creator and got...

Commentary

POSSIBLE 2026 Debuts Creator Economy Academy as Issa Rae, Kinigra Deon, and CreatorIQ Join Speaker Lineup

POSSIBLE Conference returns to Miami Beach today and will run until Wednesday (April 29), introducing a...

Tech

AI Creator Platform Markable Launches Free Tier, Opening Commerce Tools to All Creators

Markable, an AI-powered creator platform that reports processing more than $1 billion in social commerce sales...

Talent Collectives

From Viral to Viable: Heather Weiss Besignano on Reframing PR for the Creator Economy

Heather Weiss Besignano has built her career on visibility, but not the fleeting kind. As founder...