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Platforms Tea level Mild YouTube’s Made On 2026 event: custom feeds, Shorts series and live auto-dubbing From mood-based homepages to three thumbnails per video, here's what YouTube announced for viewers, creators and streamers on Sept 23. Oct 19 · 2 min read

Platforms Tea level Warm X replaced creator revenue sharing with Original Content Rewards. Here’s what counts Oct 19 · 2 min read

Platforms Tea level Mild YouTube’s October changes: AI song labels, new ad filters and a comments sidebar test Oct 19 · 2 min read

Platforms Tea level Warm YouTube’s new Partner Program bar, explained: what it means for creators you watch Oct 19 · 2 min read

Platforms Tea level Warm TikTok US is now a joint venture: who owns it, who runs it, what’s left to watch Oct 19 · 2 min read

Platforms Tea level Warm Kick ads, explained: they are platform-wide and creators can’t turn them off Kick went three years without ads. Now they run everywhere, Craven says they barely matter to revenue, and a glitch put them on an offline c… Oct 19 · 2 min read

Platforms Tea level Warm YouTube Shorts will push down channels that just repost other people’s videos Oct 19 · 2 min read

Platforms Tea level Warm PaymoneyWubby calls Twitch’s 50/50 sub split “highway robbery” — here’s the actual math Oct 19 · 2 min read