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• Disney is using a glitzy L.A. premiere to court creators with Hollywood ambitions

  Disney and Jon Youshaei are teaming up for an event called Created in L.A. that will be both a premiere and a conference.

  
• It took comedian Sheila D Yeah 530 Instagram skits to get noticed. Now, with Viral Nation, she’s working on her own TV show.

  "If you look at my Instagram, which I usually post everything on, there's 546 posts," she says. "Only 20 of them are regular posts. The rest of them are skits. It took me 530 skits to get someone to pay attention. When people read my story, I want them to know to never give up. It took me 530 skits before I found someone to listen, and I had to prove myself."

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Lifestyle swag

  This week's Gospel Stats Brand Report is four Shorts and a long (chosen by yours truly). If anything's a sign of the times, it's that. We've officially arrived at a time where brands are paying creators for punchy, 60-second content--and creators are using the same format to advertise their own products.

  

• At Kai Cenat’s Streamer University, the stars have aligned (and enrolled)
• Spotify is using AI to turn Wrapped into a year-round phenomenon
• YouTube has limited eating disorder videos, but there’s more work to do
• TikTok’s AI labels might not be effective, so the app is educating its users