News

Each week, we handpick a selection of stories to give you a snapshot of trends, updates, business moves, and more from around the creator industry. This week, gun-loving creators are getting fired up, and experienced digital media execs are getting hired up.

Creator commotion

After YouTube’s latest firearm video crackdown, some creators have had enough. At least four channels in YouTube’s firearms community have announced moves to new platforms in response to a crackdown on machine gun videos and sponsored clips that market guns. This isn’t the first time YouTube has found itself at odds with firearms enthusiasts. Maybe this time, the aggrieved creators will take my advice and move to Pornhub.

Kurzgesagt speaks! Philipp Dettmer runs one of YouTube’s most popular channels but doesn’t give interviews too often, so we’re all over his chat with Forbes. One fun fact: Dettmer “didn’t know...

Like many other car-focused channels on YouTube, Donut Media’s has no shortage of gorgeous cars. The company, which revealed earlier this year that its channel pulled in a seven-figure revenue in 2016, then doubled those earnings in 2017, regularly uploads videos populated with supercharged racecars, handfuls of sleek Lamborghinis, the raw muscle of vintage hot rods, and much, much more.

But the team behind Donut Media — including co-founder and CEO Matt Levin, a former product head at AwesomenessTV, creative director Jesse Wood, and one of the channel’s hosts as well as its head writer, James Pumphrey — also has a mission many other channels don’t: providing a thorough education about cars, inside and out, for anyone and everyone who wants to enjoy them. And that mission is what’s garnered Donut a dedicated audience, crowning the company a YouTube Millionaire in just two years.

In recent months, Donut Media’s...

Fearne Cotton doesn't want any more children. The former BBC Radio 1 DJ - who has two-year-old son Rex and three-month-old daughter Honey with husband Jesse Wood - has insisted she has no plans to add another baby to her brood. She said: ''I think we are done because I have two wonderful stepchildren as well.'' The 34-year-old beauty - whose husband Jesse also has 13-year-old son Arthur and nine-year-old daughter Lola with ex-wife Tilly - joked that even if she wanted to have more kids, she'd have to move house first. Fearne told the Metro newspaper: ''We have no room in the house.

Holly Willoughby doesn't want another baby. The 34-year-old presenter, who already has Harry, six, Belle, four, and 11-month-old son Chester with her husband Dan Baldwin, is adamant she doesn't want to add anymore children to her brood because she hates taking maternity leave from her shows 'This Morning' and 'Celebrity Juice'. Speaking to The Sun newspaper, she said: ''We keep having babies! But I am done now. I am not going anywhere.'' The busty blonde also misses starring alongside her pal Fearne Cotton - who has just welcomed her second child, daughter Honey, into the world with husband Jesse Wood - in the...

Fearne Cotton wants to be like Holly Willoughby. The former BBC Radio 1 DJ - who is expecting her second child with husband Jesse Wood - says it is her ''aim in life'' to be like her best pal. She said: ''My aim in life is to be grown up like Holly. I go round there and her house is so perfect and she's so together and I go home and I think I live in a s**t hole.'' And the 33-year-old television personality also admitted she found it hard coming off maternity leave after giving birth to two-year-old son Rex. She added...

Fearne Cotton has presented her final BBC Radio 1 show after 10 years with the station. The 33-year-old DJ - who has two-year-old son Rex with husband Jesse Wood - joined Radio 1 back in 2005 but announced she would be leaving earlier this year to have her second child, and has now described her day as the ''weirdest ever''. Speaking on her final show on the station this morning (22.05.15), she shared: ''This is honestly the weirdest day ever, it really, really is. I don't know what's going on. I'm terrified slash excited. I've been looking forward to it and...

Fearne Cotton has presented her final BBC Radio 1 show after 10 years with the station. The 33-year-old DJ - who has two-year-old son Rex with husband Jesse Wood - joined Radio 1 back in 2005 but announced she would be leaving earlier this year to have her second child, and has now described her day as the ''weirdest ever''. Speaking on her final show on the station this morning (22.05.15), she shared: ''This is honestly the weirdest day ever, it really, really is. I don't know what's going on. I'm terrified slash excited. I've been looking forward to it and...

Fearne Cotton's son and stepchildren have already suggested ''a million names'' for her baby. The 33-year-old BBC Radio 1 DJ recently announced she is pregnant with her second child with rocker husband Jesse Wood, and admitted the musician's two children from a previous relationship, as well as their two-year-old son Rex, are eager to name the unborn child. She said: ''My little boy Rex and his older brother and sister Arthur and Lola are so excited, they've all already come up with about a million names for the unborn child, and are really, really excited. So in the Wood household we're all...

Fearne Cotton is pregnant with her second child. The 33-year-old 'Celebrity Juice' panellist - who already has two-year-old son Rex with husband Jesse Wood - revealed the news in a statement on her website, although did not reveal when they are expecting the baby to be born. She wrote: ''Jesse and I are very happy to announce we are having another baby. I feel extremely blessed and happy that Rex will be a big brother, and we get to welcome another Wood into the world.'' Along with the announcement, the BBC Radio 1 DJ confirmed she has decided to leave the station -...

Fearne Cotton wants to have another baby. The 'Celebrity Juice' star - who has an 18-month-old son Rex, as well as two stepchildren, Arthur, 12, and Lola, seven, with her husband Jesse Wood - felt ''empowered'' and ''beautiful'' after giving birth and would love to get pregnant again. She told the new issue of Red magazine: ''I would do anything to have that experience of being pregnant again. When I was pregnant and huge I felt the most amazing I've ever felt. ''The day after I gave birth I remember looking in the mirror. I probably looked horrendous, greasy hair that I...