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YouTube Shorts are about to be worth a lot more money. Well, for some people at least. Here's a quick breakdown of what's going on with YouTube's short-form vertical video feature:
Women In Music just hosted their annual summit for the third year in a row! The theme this year was aligned with the organization's mission: Educate, Empower, Advance. The last day of the summit held a career fair aiming to get more women jobs in 2023.
Bummed you missed it this year? Us too! But Women In Music is always doing cool things, especially for women looking to get a footing in the industry and find an empowering community. Women In Music formed back in 1985 as a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring equality and visibility for women in the musical arts.
Check out WIM here and definitely consider a membership. (And yes, they have memberships specifically for students!).
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Bunches, who we've written about before, has some paid internship openings you might be interested in checking out! There's a spot for a creator partnerships intern as well as a spot for a content production intern. Check out more about the opportunity here.
OpenAI forged ahead with the release of its Sora app powered by Sora 2, despite ethical and legal concerns. Now, creators who have accessed the app are sharing their feelings on the platform dubbed SlopTok. The invite-only video generation app eclipsed one million downloads in less than a week after its release. But the company has
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Read MoreSpotify CEO Daniel Ek is stepping down as CEO and away from day-to-day operations at the company. The company had faced its most explicit criticism from artists and listeners yet, thanks mostly due to Ek’s involvement with AI weapon developers. But Spotify says Ek will stay play a big role in the overall direction of the
Read MoreAnybody can become an influencer. Don’t get me wrong — it takes dedication and a willingness to fail until you succeed (and then probably fail again), but if you like posting content on the Internet, you can turn it into anything from a little extra cash every month to a nest egg to generational wealth. Anybody
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