Patreon Cuts 20% of Staff in Second Major Layoff Since 2022

Patreon laid off 93 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce, on July 23, according to an...

TikTok Tests AI Likeness Detection Tool, Following YouTube’s Playbook on Deepfakes

TikTok has begun testing an opt-in tool that scans the platform for AI-generated content using a...

Snap Reaches Settlement in Social Media Addiction Lawsuit, Leaving Meta as Sole Remaining Defendant

Snap has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging its platform harms the mental health...

Meta Adds Parental Supervision Tools to Threads

Meta will roll out parental supervision tools to Threads in the U.S. starting next week, giving...

Pinterest Relaunches Inclusion Fund for Sixth Year, Opens Applications Across 10 Countries

Pinterest is bringing back its Inclusion Fund for a sixth consecutive year, opening applications for creators...

Substack Launches AI-Detection Tools With Pangram to Flag AI Generated Content

Substack has begun rolling out AI transparency features built in partnership with Pangram, the AI-detection company,...

Instagram Rolls Out Tool to Swap Music on Published Posts

Instagram is rolling out a new global feature called “Replace Audio,” which lets users change the...

YouTube’s Trust & Safety Chief Details Three Categories of Content Barred From Monetization

YouTube has spelled out, in specific terms, the types of content that cannot be monetized under...

Patreon Expands AI Scraping Protections With Cloudflare 

Patreon is expanding its protections against unauthorized AI scraping, deploying Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control technology to...

beehiiv Unveils Four New Products as It Expands Into an All-in-One Creator Platform

beehiiv is betting that creators no longer want a collection of specialized tools. At its Summer...

UK Regulator Opens Investigation Into TikTok Over Child Age Checks

The UK’s media regulator, Ofcom, has launched a formal investigation into whether TikTok‘s methods for identifying...

TikTok Strikes Multi-Year Global Partnership With NBA, WNBA

TikTok has signed a multi-year global content partnership with the NBA and WNBA, combining creator access...

YouTube Tests Redesigned Studio Analytics With AI Insight Cards

YouTube has begun testing a redesigned analytics experience in YouTube Studio, renaming the Analytics tab to...

TikTok Set to Cut Around 300 Jobs in Ireland as Part of Global Trust & Safety Overhaul

TikTok is proposing to cut approximately 300 jobs at its Irish operation, where the company employs...

X Launches ‘Mentions Boost’ for Advertisers  

X has introduced “Mentions Boost,” a new tool that lets Premium Business subscribers instantly amplify any...

TikTok’s Madonna Livestream Draws Record 2.1M Viewers for Album Launch

Madonna’s exclusive TikTok LIVE broadcast on July 2 became the biggest standalone artist livestream in the...

YouTuber Alan Chikin Chow Brings ‘Alan’s Universe’ to Netflix

Netflix is expanding its relationship with YouTube creator Alan Chikin Chow, bringing his “Alan’s Universe” franchise...

Meta Disables Instagram AI Image Tool After CAA, SAG-AFTRA Backlash

Meta shut down a feature that let Instagram users generate AI images by tagging other public...

The Rolling Stones Bring 60 Years of Rock History to Roblox With Interactive Game, Creator-Designed Merch  

The Rolling Stones have launched an interactive game and music experience on Roblox, timed to coincide...

Kickstarter Launches ‘Power of Belief’ Brand Campaign in New York City

Kickstarter has launched “Power of Belief,” a new brand campaign built around the message that “Belief...

pocket.watch to Premiere Creator-Led Series ‘Rabbit Hole’ July 13 on Disney+, Hulu 

pocket.watch will premiere “Rabbit Hole,” a creator-led variety series, on Disney+ and Hulu on July 13...

TikTok Launches Six-City ‘Discover America’ Tour

TikTok has kicked off a six-city tour called “Discover America,” marking the U.S. semiquincentennial by highlighting...

Pinterest’s Malik Ducard on Influencer Marketing and Its Own Authenticity

Influencer Marketing’s growth is also what broke its credibility, according to Malik Ducard. As the industry...

Spotify, Amazon Deepen Ad Partnership With Direct DSP Integration 

Spotify Ad Exchange is now directly integrated with Amazon DSP, giving advertisers access to Spotify’s podcast...

How BeReal Is Using the FIFA World Cup to Sell Advertisers on ‘Proof of Human’

Three weeks into the FIFA World Cup, BeReal users who follow a national team get a...