Creator

• Iron Lung made $50M. Should be easy for Markiplier to put it up for sale on YouTube, right?
• When networks turned him down, Xavier Mortimer made his own show on YouTube. Now, with over 30 million followers, he’s ready to try TV again.

  Mortimer fell in love with magic when he was a kid growing up in Briançon, France. The catalyst, as he told Vegas Never Sleeps in 2019, was seeing a local magician performing at a restaurant. His father subsequently gifted him a book on magic, and Mortimer never looked back. In just a decade, he went from hawking flowers at a local market so he could buy props, to performing his own show at Theatre Le Temple in Paris.

  
• Keith Lee just made his first restaurant investment

  
• Dropout and its comedians are starring in an episode of ABC’s ‘The Rookie’

  Over the last couple years, we've talked a lot about creators and their IPs moving into (and performing well in) spaces like TV and film. Much of this movement has been self-financed and distributed, though creators are snagging more development partnerships with traditional studios and streaming services.

  
• Netflix just signed its biggest creator deal yet
• Inside Dhar Mann’s Old Navy deal
• Dr. Fran is battling the TikTok era of medical misinformation
• For almost a decade, Veritasium was a one-man show. Then it got an investment.
• The Rockefeller Foundation partners with Beast Philanthropy, hoping to capture “the hearts and minds of millions of young people”
• No Thankmas 2025: Jacksepticeye says he’s noticed fans’ financial struggles, plus wants to restructure for 2026 event
• YouTube gives advertisers a sneak peek of top creators’ next projects at its first “Premieres” showcase
• MrBeast is opening his own theme park. It’s in Saudi Arabia.