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• Alex Zarfati hoped being on YouTube would help him convince studios to greenlight his projects. Now he’s doing things himself–with AI.

  "I use AI to expand sets. I use AI to fill in some of the gaps that we just couldn't afford to shoot, whether it was that we couldn't get a permit or we don't have the budget for an aerial shot with all these different cop cars and things," he explains. "I use it to make the world feel bigger than it actually is, and I think that is a great place to inject AI into your independent filmmaking."

  
• YouTube is letting creators make reaction content on-platform, using everyone else’s long-form videos

  Reaction content is a tricky beast. It's one of the top content categories across all platforms and formats, from many-hour Twitch livestreams to many-hour YouTube video essays to bite-size TikTok duets and those Facebook videos where people put their faces in the corners of other people's videos and just make exaggerated expressions the whole time.

  
• CNN dives into Texas Senate race alongside media partner Jubilee

  Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will answer questions from constituents as part of a town hall hosted by CNN and Jubilee Media.

  

• Derral Eves believes anyone can find an audience on YouTube. He wrote a step-by-step creator field guide to prove it.
• Have you heard? Saying sayonara to the PewDiePie vlog and taking “go back to Africa” literally.
• Jordan Matter is doing a full-day AMA at VidSummit so younger creators can learn everything he knows
• YouTube’s Neal Mohan plays coy as Meta attempts to persuade rivals to add safety features