Musical.ly Puts $50 Million Into New Creator Fund, Teens Still Love Them Some Snapchat, Ad Council Sees Power In Influencers, & More Top Stories

Not displaying correctly? View this email online. Musical.ly Puts $50 Million Into Its Creator Fund Musical.ly, the lip-syncing app popular among teens, is funneling $50 million into its newly established Creator Fund. YouTube Inks Licensing Deals With Universal And Sony Music As It Preps Paid Service (Report) The long-term deals, reached after roughly two years of negotiation, establish royalty rates for Universal and Sony artists whose videos are uploaded to YouTube, as well as any user-generated clips. Twitch To Seek Next Big Livestreaming Star In Upcoming Game Show Twitch is looking to catapult an emerging streamer into wider renown with a brand new internally-produced competition series called Stream On. Casey Neistat And 17 YouTube Stars Turned An Empty Mall Into Winter Wonderland For Milwaukee Boys And Girls Clubs Eighteen YouTube stars led by a Santa costumed Casey Neistat turned an abandoned mall in Milwaukee into a "winter wonderland" for the area's Boys and Girls Clubs this holiday season. Amazon Prime Video App Gets Most Week One Downloads In Apple TV Store After its December 6 release on Apple TV, the Amazon Prime Video app got the most week one downloads of any tvOS app ever. Trapped On A Desert Island? Teens Would Miss Snapchat Most If you were trapped on a desert island with only one social platform at your disposal, which would you choose? Instagram? Twitter? Facebook? These Brands Had The Biggest YouTube Channels In 2017 (Study) 90% of the world's top 500 brands have at least one YouTube channel of their own Ne-Yo Starring Step Up Series Coming To Youtube Red January 31 The series is produced by Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum, leads of the original Step Up film. Here's The Trailer For Season 2 Of Facebook's Flagship Watch Series Loosely Exactly Nicole One of the first flagship series announced by Facebook earlier this year to inaugurate its new video platform, Watch, was Loosely Exactly Nicole. Ad Council Fetes Growth Of 'Creators For Good' Initiative Alongside Ricky Dillon, The Slyfox Family In 2017, the organization said it worked with a total of 25 influencers with a collective reach of 34 million fans, whose campaigns clocked a total of 10 million views across YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Copyright © 2017 Tubefilter, All rights reserved. Sign up for Tubefilter Newsletters here. Our mailing address is: Tubefilter 5405 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 270 Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA  You received this email because you subscribed to a Tubefilter Newsletter or have registered to attend one of our Tubefilter Events. We respect your privacy and inbox. If you believe this was sent to you in error and you no longer wish to receive these emails, please update your subscription preferences or unsubscribe.