[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by GospelStats. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.] Scroll down for this week’s Tubefilter Chart, which is brought to you by Bio Sites from Squarespace. During the month of April, Indian channels were in the driver’s seat in our Tubefilter charts. Our monthly ranking of the 100 most-watched YouTube c ..read more

TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have settled their dispute. The two parties have agreed on a new licensing agreement that will return the latter company’s catalog — including songs from Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Billie Eilish — to TikTok’s music library. Tracks from UMG artists were muted on TikTok for three months as a result of an ongoing disagreement between the “big three” label and ByteDance’s buzzy video app. In February, UMG insisted that TikTok had to address “three critical issues” before a new deal could be reached. Those sticking po ..read more

Amidst political turmoil in the U.S. and abroad, TikTok addressed brand and agency representatives at the 2024 NewFronts. The ByteDance-owned app delivered a pitch that focused on several of its ad products. It is rolling out new options for its premium Pulse Premiere tier and introducing audience measurement solutions from Nielson ONE Ads and iSpot.tv. TikTok’s presentation included new details about Pulse, the ad program it revealed at its NewFronts pitch two years ago. Pulse, which resembles YouTube’s Select program, offers roped-off ad inventory nex ..read more

Amidst a chaotic week at TikTok, the app took some time to acknowledge its growing community of sellers — and the safety features that support them. TikTok Shop now has more than 500,000 U.S.-based sellers just eight months after its Stateside debut. The latest TikTok Shop data comes from a “Safety Report” published by the ByteDance-owned app. The report covers the second half of 2023, when TikTok Shop arrived in the U.S. and onboarded more than six million new sellers across the globe. The global TikTok Shop base now includes more than 15 million sellers worldwide, with c ..read more

Nothing, Except Everything is getting a big-screen treatment. That’s the name of a short film that earned plaudits for young writer/director Wesley Wang when it premiered last September. Wang has now inked a deal with Darren Aronofsky‘s Protozoa for a feature adaptation of Nothing, Except Everything. According to Deadline, TriStar Pictures has picked up the film rights for Nothing, Except Everything. Wang’s 13-minute short film, which explores existential themes in a high school setting, was already a film festival darling before its brea ..read more

A major player in the burgeoning newsletter industry has made a sizable addition to its coffers. Three-year-old beehiiv has raised a $33 million Series B round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The Series B brings beehiiv’s total funding up to $46.5 million. Beyond NEA, other participants in the latest round include Sapphire Sport and previous backer Lightspeed Venture Partners. In just a few years, CEO Tyler Denk and his team have turned beehiiv into a go-to destination for newsletter creators. The platform sends out more than one billion emails per month and c ..read more

Meta has kicked off the week with a pair of announcements that should make its creator community happy. On the Instagram side of the tech company, a new ranking algorithm will surface more original content in user feeds. Meanwhile, on Threads, a new bonus program will open up a new revenue stream for creators. Instagram’s attempt to promote original posts in its feed has been a years-long effort; in 2022, the factors that inform its ranking algorithm changed to depreciate reposts and content aggregators. The man who announced that update, Instagram Head Adam Mosseri ..read more

[Editor’s Note: Tubefilter Charts is a weekly rankings column from Tubefilter with data provided by GospelStats. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a top number ranking of YouTube channels based on statistics collected within a given time frame. Check out all of our Tubefilter Charts with new installments every week right here.] Three of the top five channels in the U.S. Top 50 got fewer views during the last week of April than during the penultimate stretch. Despite those declines, six U.S.-based channels got at least 300 million views during our most recent seven-day measurement pe ..read more

Welcome to our rundown of the most-watched branded YouTube videos of the week. We’re publishing this snippet of a larger Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report in order to analyze sponsorship trends in the creator economy. Any video launched in tandem with an official brand partner is eligible for the ranking. And – as the name up above would imply – all the data comes from Gospel Stats. If you’re interested in learning more about Gospel – and which brands are sponsoring what creators on YouTube – click here. MrBeast continues to show us that he’s in a league of his own as far as YouTube is co ..read more

Jellysmack and StyleHaul alum Chas Stahl has joined GEM Studios, the digital content production wing of influencer-focused marketing agency Get Engaged. Stahl got his start working in TV for Walt Disney and went on to work at Yahoo before becoming a talent manager at both STX Entertainment and StyleHaul, and a director of digital business development at Right Angle Entertainment. He served as Jellysmack’s senior manager of corporate development, and then, in 2021, he founded CS Digital Projects, a management consulting company for content creators and brands. At Get Engaged, he’ll lead GEM St ..read more