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India's $1 Billion Creator Fund 🇮🇳🤑

Unless you're a colossal internet wonk, most Americans don't know how dominant Indian content is on social networks. Of the top 50 most viewed YouTube channels, according to Tubefilter, twenty-three are from India with the United States in second place with eight. And India is cementing that dominance with a $1 billion government creator fund.

The Business of Stories-Telling 💰

Facebook announced a makeover to their confusing past creator monetization product to include all feed-based media types, not just videos. It's still in beta, but they have now announced Stories will also be monetized as part of the program. Game changer for creators or just another short-term swing to bring Gen Z back?

TikTok Won't Slow Down 🏃🏽

Announcements are dropping from TikTok US fast and furious, from massive financial projections to new features leagues ahead of their competitors. And now with President Trump signaling that he will yet again "extend the shutdown deadline" we all have to ask: was this ever a national security threat or do we just not care anymore?

CoComelon Knocks Out Paul v Tyson 🥊

The Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight on Netflix was, without a doubt, the highest profile creator event of 2024 with 148 million total views. But Netflix just shared a bi-annual viewership report that showed something all of us with kids under five already know: CoComelon is the true SVOD heavyweight with 231.1 million views in 2024.

Why Duolingo Unalived Its Owl 🦉⚰️

A company offing their mascot is driving all of the social media news of the week. That's wild. If anyone can do it, it's the language learning app Duolingo, who has led the way in social content and growing the company to an over $17b valuation.

Show Me the Creator Money! 💰

M&A, Investments, and Prizes, Oh My! 2025 has already been marked by big money being thrown at creator economy companies, creators, and even fans. Are we re-starting the bubble or is the industry finally getting wise to the immense power of creators?

China May Pull TikTok's Plug 🔌

With all of the talk about TikTok's extension around U.S. political support, whether it can pass the judiciary, and what eccentric billionaire will buy it, we haven't spent enough time asking whether ByteDance, or the Chinese Communist Party, even wants a sale? It sounds like that's not a foregone conclusion.

10 Platforms Battling TikTok ⏰

TikTok isn't saved. It has yet another ticking clock, with 67 days left to divest or be shut down in the US entirely. It's already delisted from the Google Play and Apple's App Stores, given the murky legality of Trump's word he won't go after them. And competitors are counting on it. Here are 10 that may benefit.

TikTok Unbanned 🤷🏻

We spent months preparing creators for the TikTok ban only to have the app return 12 hours later. Yay? Maybe? Let's talk about why I think this could be a nightmare scenario, and why the success of Red Book signals that banning TikTok in the first place was a terrible, terrible idea.