YouTube uses Brandcast 2026 to highlight creator-led original content
As streaming and FAST platforms including Netflix, Tubi and Samsung TV Plus aggressively expand their creator-led programming strategies, YouTube used its 2026 Brandcast presentation to make a high-profile statement about its own ambitions in original content,...
Big Talk partners Mitchell & Webb on launch of global YouTube channel
Big Talk Studios and That Mitchell & Webb Company have launched the official global YouTube destination for comic duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The channel will “ultimately bring together a definitive archive of the duo’s most celebrated comedy work...
Digital Creator Africa Academy partners with Video Rebirth to train African creators in AI-enabled microdrama production
The Digital Creator Africa Academy (DCAA) has partnered with Singapore-based AI video company Video Rebirth to provide AI filmmaking training and scholarships to 100 African creators focused on vertical and microdrama production. The partnership was announced on May...
Random or Related? Channel 4.0’s new genealogy format unites creators with long-lost family
Channel 4.0 has commissioned a new digital original format from Acclaimed Content which sees famous faces connect with unknown relatives in Random or Related? Across six-parts, Channel 4.0 stars will meet a lineup of strangers, one of whom is a distant family member...