Talent Collectives

Hoonigan Co-Founder Brian Scotto Joins F=ma, Turns 321 Action Action Into In-House Studio

F=ma, the motorsports and automotive platform that owns RACER, GRIDLIFE and The ID Agency, announced that...

Tech

AnyMind Group Named Premier Partner in Shopify Partner Program

AnyMind Group, a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed BPaaS company, announced it has become a certified Premier Partner...

Tech

MAKE Is Building Banking for Creator Income With Fanvue as Its First Flagship Partnership

A creator earning across multiple platforms and currencies is, in the eyes of most traditional banks,...

Platform

Pinterest Launches Visual Search Ads to Turn Search Results Into a New Ad Placement

Pinterest has unveiled Visual Search Ads, a new ad format that places advertisers directly in Pinterest...

Influencer

MrBeast Announces His ‘Biggest YouTube Video Ever’ After Spending $10M and 1,000+ Hours on It 

Jimmy Donaldson, the creator known as MrBeast, said the YouTube video he plans to release Saturday...

Tech

Video Intelligence Platform Plot Launches AI Tool to Vet Creators by Analyzing Their Video Content

Plot, a New York-based video intelligence platform, has launched Creator Intelligence, an AI-powered product that lets...

Tech

AnyMind Group Launches Platform for Livestreaming Creators

AnyMind Group, a BPaaS company, has launched AnyCreator Stream, a web-based platform that lets creators and...

Tech

Marketing Platform Noise Raises $5.5M Seed to Pay Everyday Creators Per View

Marketing platform Noise has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Capital Midwest, M25, and...

Platform

OnlyFans CEO Pitches Platform as a Personal-Branding Tool Beyond Adult Content

OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair is making the case that the platform’s value extends well beyond the...

Platform

Whatnot Rolls Out Tiered Commission Rates as Low as 3% for Top Sellers

Whatnot is restructuring how it charges sellers, introducing a tiered commission system that automatically lowers rates...

Commentary

European Parliament Backs EU Code of Conduct for Influencers in Youth Safety Push

On September 17, the European Parliament voted to call for an EU-wide code of conduct governing...

Commentary

U.S. Senators Launch Bipartisan Senate Creators Caucus

Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and John Kennedy (R-LA) this week announced the launch of the Senate...

Platform

Instagram Collaboration Posts Outperform Standard Content, Analysis Finds

Instagram posts published through the platform’s collaboration feature generate stronger organic engagement than a brand’s standard...

Brand

Disney Signs Content and Development Deal With YouTube Kids Creator Like Nastya

Disney has signed a content and development deal with Like Nastya, the kids’ YouTube brand with...

Platform

Snap CEO Says Company Would Consider Teen Time Limits Following Meta Pressure

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told the BBC the company would be “willing to implement” default time...

Commentary

Six in 10 Australians Now Discover Brands Through Creators, Research Finds

New research from IAB Australia finds that 61% of Australians discover brands through creators, rising to...

Talent Collectives

Link Management Hosts NYFW Kickoff Party With More Than a Dozen Creators 

Link Management, a boutique talent management company, hosted a New York Fashion Week kickoff celebration on...

Commentary

29 Creator Marketing Professionals on Where They Draw the Line With AI

Artificial intelligence has moved deeper into creator marketing, taking on work from creator discovery and vetting...

Strategy

Clipency is Building a Performance-Based Creator Marketing Model Around Dedicated Brand Pages

Clipency, a creator infrastructure platform launched in January 2026, is built on the premise that most...

Strategy

CreatorIQ Connect 2026: The Creator ROI Case Is Settled, Building the Systems Around It Is Not

CreatorIQ Connect 2026 brings more than 1,000 brand practitioners, agency partners, platform representatives, and creators to...

Commentary

LIONS Brings VidCon Into Its Portfolio as Cannes Lions Organizer Restructures Into Regional Platforms

LIONS, the company behind Cannes Lions, Effie, WARC and Contagious, has announced that VidCon will join...

Commentary

Podcast Audiences Move Across Formats, Challenging How Brands Buy, Report Finds  

The long-running argument over whether audio or video is the future of podcasting has ended, not...

Platform

Spotify Expands Podcast Partner Program to More Than 35 New Markets

Spotify is expanding its Partner Program to more than 35 new markets, including Brazil, Colombia, Italy,...

Commentary

European Commission Proposes EU-Wide Social Media Ban for Children U-13

The European Commission has proposed a bloc-wide ban on social media use for children under 13,...

Influencer

HBO Sends Cease-and-Desist to Jake Paul’s Betr Over Ad Echoing ‘Entourage’ Dynamic

HBO has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Betr, the sports betting company co-founded by Jake Paul,...