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• YouTube hits nearly $10 billion in Q1 ad revenue

  It's been just over six years since Alphabet started disclosing YouTube's ad revenue as part of its quarterly earnings calls. The first disclosure, released in February 2020, revealed that across all of 2019, YouTube made a total of ~$15 billion in ad revenue. That was up from ~$10 billion total in 2018.

  
• Kick gambling streamer N3on is spending millions on his army of clippers

  Clipping is the content creator equivalent of a startup doing digital ads. And if you've tuned into any episode of Shark Tank or looked at any ecom guru's YouTube channel in the last few years, you know that the general approach is more in, more out.

  
• Australia limited teen access to social media. Now it’s trying to get a better deal for news media companies.

  The Australian government wants to use a new tax to support news organizations on social media, but will platforms play ball?

  

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