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Creators are crashing through Hollywood, but there’s a ceiling

Hollywood has courted creators for several years, but in the past few months, there’s been a full-blown creator invasion. Two YouTube-born horror films became box office blockbusters (Obsession and Backrooms, which, as of writing, have respectively earned $426 million and $357 million), private equity firms are raising funds to buy meme IP like Skibidi Toilet, […]

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Why a once-anonymous creator unmasked herself to build a bigger media brand 

In 2018, Kristi Cook was an anonymous YouTuber making videos about internet celebrity drama and gossip on a channel known as Spill Sesh, with only her disembodied voice doling out the week’s hottest gossip. The channel became wildly popular, garnering over 700,000 subscribers in just a few years (now 860,000) across more than 1,000 videos

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The Real Convergence Story Is Happening in Local Markets

TV convergence has largely been framed as a national conversation: advertisers looking for more connected ways to plan across linear and streaming, measure performance, and understand audiences. But as buyers push for more accountable, performance-oriented TV campaigns, that national-first approach starts to lose precision in local markets. “Any purchase decision is happening locally,” said Keith

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