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It uses operational AI and automated workflows to unlock long-term value from deep video archives for broadcasters, sports rights holders and content owners Little Dot Studios has unveiled HyperLaunch, which helps broadcasters, distributors, sports rights holders, brands and content owners rapidly scale their YouTube output. HyperLaunch significantly increases revenue while maintaining premium channel management standards, says Little Dot. It is the latest addition to the Little Dot OS (Optimisation Sidekicks), the company’s suite of proprietary optimisation technologies. Little Dot OS was developed in-house, based on the company’s 13 years of expertise managing more than 1,000 YouTube channels for more than 600 global partners. Over the past decade, Little Dot says it has delivered more than half a billion US dollars in revenue for its partners. With HyperLaunch, it adds that its partners will stand to, on average, triple their historical returns by efficiently monetising vast content archives that were previously too complex or costly to exploit. HyperLaunch is already deployed across Little Dot Studios’ owned-and-operated network of more than 135 channels. So far, it has distributed more than 21,500 hours of content to YouTube in 2026 alone. The platform uses operational AI and automated workflows to ingest, analyse and distribute large volumes of

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There are many reasons Kareem Rahma is happy about his first-ever Emmy nomination, and why he and his SubwayTakes executive producer, Andrew Kuo, were drinking afternoon martinis when I caught them on the phone last week, a few hours after the nominations were announced. It’s the first nomination for a YouTube original series since the tech giant started aggressively pushing its shows for Emmys last year, a moment that Rahma called “a milestone for the entire creator community” in his official reaction statement. It’s also, very importantly for Rahma, not yet another Webby.  “What we do is not Webbys,” says Rahma, who has been nominated for three of the internet-focused awards. “It’s entertainment; it’s television. I want to be recognized by the right people.”  Alongside political song parodist Randy Rainbow, whose show has now been nominated six times in the short-form categories, Rahma is part of what feels like a slow-moving sea change at the Emmys, where entirely independent shows born on YouTube will become increasingly competitive with traditional Hollywood productions. Sure, Hot Ones and Royal Court didn’t manage to break through in the best variety series category, and many of the short-form nominees are still spinoffs from network-produced shows

By SHAWN HENDRICKS, The Baptist Paper As the 2026 FIFA World Cup draws to a close, with the final match scheduled for July 19, many soccer fans may be interested in following another World Cup coming up soon in Mexico City. Celebrating its 21st year of competition, the Homeless World Cup will (literally) kick off Jan. 17–23. Yes, it’s a real event held in partnership with FIFA — and organizers will quickly tell you that it is changing, and has changed, many lives. International network “Since 2003, we’ve supported over 1.7 million people to rebuild their lives through football,” the group’s website says. “Across our global network of 75 Member Countries, players move forward into employment, education and stable housing.” In 2024, Netflix released globally the movie “The Beautiful Game,” which shares a fictional account of a team from England that competes in the real-life annual event. The idea for the soccer tournament came from co-founders Mel Young and Harald Schmied. The two were reportedly inspired to launch the idea after attending a conference on homelessness in 2001. As a result, the first event was held in Graz, Austria, in 2003 and hosted 18 teams. Since then, the event has

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Ben Schneider, the YouTube creator also known online as Reckless Ben, has signed with CAA for representation. The move comes as Schneider and his investigative video content has gotten caught up in a viral YouTube investigation and legal dispute with the Utah-based Lego resale company Bricks & Minifigs over a missing — and allegedly stolen — Lego Star Wars collection. In a statement, CAA calls Schneider “a pioneer in independent investigative filmmaking. He is a documentary creator and digital media personality whose fearless approach to storytelling has made him one of the most talked about creators on the internet. By combining investigative journalism, immersive participation, humor, and high stakes real world adventures, Ben has built a worldwide audience that spans millions of viewers across multiple platforms.” His YouTube investigation into an 83-year-old man who entered into a consignment agreement for a valuable Lego Star Wars collection that went missing has led to arrests and lawsuits involving Schneider. Amid the ensuing media attention, a May 21, 2026 YouTube video entitled I Tracked Down the Thief Who Stole $200,000 of LEGO has earned Schneider around 6.5 million views to date. That was quickly followed by a second YouTube video from Schneider, entitled I

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Andy Quandt has opinions about bikes.   “I think your tires make way more difference for how your bike rides than frame material.”  Many opinions.  “There’s a bicycle surplus problem in this world.”  Strong opinions.   “The overall problem with the cycling world is how focused it is on turning people into cyclists.”  Such hard-won wisdom doesn’t always make for great customer service. But it does make for fantastic video content, and that’s precisely what Quandt has been working on since he started his “BikeFarmer” YouTube channel in 2023. He’s not shy about sharing his opinions. His most popular videos have titles like “Bike Shop A$$H0LE tells how you’ve been duped! 10 reasons your bike is WRONG (or maybe right)!” Quandt, who grew up in Lake Mills and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been involved in the Madison bike scene his entire adult life. In college, he worked at Budget Bicycle Center as a mechanic while studying creative writing and technical communications. After college, he changed tracks and worked as a high-powered semiconductor diode laser technician.  “I cut my hair and got a real job,” he says. “It sucked.”  When the predicted fiber-optic boom never happened, that job went away and Quandt