When YouTube launched YouTube Shorts — the company’s answer to viral short-form video content popularized by platforms like Vine, TikTok, and Instagram Reels — plenty of YouTubers scoffed. And it’s hard to blame them.  YouTube’s rollout of YouTube Shorts has been clunky, sporadic, and anything but intuitive. Not to mention the format is kind of the

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The For You Page is TikTok’s bread and butter. No matter how many new features the app introduces, the For You Page — often abbreviated and hashtagged to “FYP” — will forever be the feature that launched a billion profiles.The For You Page is also the feature that launched a thousand social media coaches, a

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The American Music Fairness Act is slowly making its way through the U.S. government with what appears to be rare bipartisan support. If this is the first time you’ve heard of the American Music Fairness Act and those words mean relatively nothing to you, well, you’re not alone.  But the bill could have serious implications for

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Discord just launched server subscriptions, a new feature that allows creators to charge users for special access and perks within a server. The new feature has been rumored for some time and first launched in a small, private pilot program late last year.  The feature is a big step forward in creator monetization and another huge

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Ticketmaster may finally be in the kind of trouble it deserves. Nobody really likes purchasing tickets from Ticketmaster, but the nearly 50-year-old company has wormed its way into being unavoidable for many ticketed events around the globe.  After a very publicized, very terrible ticketing experience for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour, Ticketmaster now faces intense government scrutiny.

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