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Yogscast CEO Mark Turpin steps down over sexual harassment allegationsTop 10 streamed games of the week: CS:GO continues to grow while GTA V continues to fallFacebook receives record-breaking $5bn FTC fine in wake of Cambridge AnalyticaHot Five: State of the stream Q2, FTC discusses disabling YouTube ads on children's content, and 7 steps to perfect Instagram captions
Yogscast CEO Mark Turpin steps down over sexual harassment allegations YOG DOWN

Yogscast CEO Mark Turpin steps down over sexual harassment allegations

Another creator from the network was dropped last month

Top 10 streamed games of the week: CS:GO continues to grow while GTA V continues to fall TOP 10 GAMES

Top 10 streamed games of the week: CS:GO continues to grow while GTA V continues to fall

The most-watched games across Twitch, YouTube, Mixer and Facebook

Facebook receives record-breaking $5bn FTC fine in wake of Cambridge Analytica FIVE BILLION DOLLARS

Facebook receives record-breaking $5bn FTC fine in wake of Cambridge Analytica

The fine beats out the $5.7m that hit TikTok earlier this year

Hot Five: State of the stream Q2, FTC discusses disabling YouTube ads on children's content, and 7 steps to perfect Instagram captions HOT FIVE

Hot Five: State of the stream Q2, FTC discusses disabling YouTube ads on children's content, and 7 steps to perfect Instagram captions

The hottest stories of last week from InfluencerUpdate.biz

Chinese social app Jimu acquired by live streaming platform Inke

Chinese social app Jimu acquired by live streaming platform Inke

Top 10 most watched and trending channels of the week

Top 10 most watched and trending channels of the week

Games industry roundup: No Man's Sky's cash reserve increase, Clash of Clans has best month in two years, and CryptoKitties unveils Kitty Tricks

Games industry roundup: No Man's Sky's cash reserve increase, Clash of Clans has best month in two years, and CryptoKitties unveils Kitty Tricks

State of the stream Q2: 74% of Twitch viewership belongs to the top 5000 channels

State of the stream Q2: 74% of Twitch viewership belongs to the top 5000 channels

Twitter unveils ArtHouse, a new intiative to connect brands and creators

Twitter unveils ArtHouse, a new intiative to connect brands and creators

Twitch reveals all-star streamer line-up for Amazon Prime Day event

Twitch reveals all-star streamer line-up for Amazon Prime Day event

Fourth Floor Creative appoints first COO

Fourth Floor Creative appoints first COO

Top 10 streamed games of the week: Season 2 of Apex Legends brings streamers back to the arena

Top 10 streamed games of the week: Season 2 of Apex Legends brings streamers back to the arena

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Interviews & opinion

What’s Good Games on being more than just the “girl gamer podcast” BREAKING THE MOULD Jun 13th, 2019

What’s Good Games on being more than just the “girl gamer podcast”

How What’s Good Games’ no-nonsense attitude has helped to harbour a positive community WHAT'S GOOD INTERVIEW Jun 6th, 2019

How What’s Good Games’ no-nonsense attitude has helped to harbour a positive community

Nano-influencers: the next big, little thing? NANO INFLUENCERS May 24th, 2019

Nano-influencers: the next big, little thing?

StreamElements: "we are the only company providing a completely cloud-based collection of everything needed to manage a live broadcast" STREAMELEMENTS May 22nd, 2019

StreamElements: "we are the only company providing a completely cloud-based collection of everything needed to manage a live broadcast"

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Data & Research

Top 10 most watched and trending channels of the week TOP 10 CHANNELS Jul 16th, 2019

Top 10 most watched and trending channels of the week

Top 10 streamed games of the week: CS:GO continues to grow while GTA V continues to fall TOP 10 GAMES Jul 16th, 2019

Top 10 streamed games of the week: CS:GO continues to grow while GTA V continues to fall

State of the stream Q2: 74% of Twitch viewership belongs to the top 5000 channels STATE OF STREAM Jul 12th, 2019

State of the stream Q2: 74% of Twitch viewership belongs to the top 5000 channels

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Regulars

Viral Visionaries: influencer marketing trends to watch in 2019 Viral Visionaries Jan 21st, 2019

Viral Visionaries: influencer marketing trends to watch in 2019

Case study: How Zorka.Mobi and Azur Games used influencer marketing in Latin America for a mobile game campaign Feature Jan 8th, 2019

Case study: How Zorka.Mobi and Azur Games used influencer marketing in Latin America for a mobile game campaign

Live since 2005: How passing out flyers on the streets of Miami turned Danny Pená in to a podcasting icon Influencer Icon Nov 19th, 2018

Live since 2005: How passing out flyers on the streets of Miami turned Danny Pená in to a podcasting icon

Case study: How Miniclip used Snapchat to market Football Strike during the World Cup Success Story Nov 2nd, 2018

Case study: How Miniclip used Snapchat to market Football Strike during the World Cup

Profiles

Influencer CEO: "Changing our focus to engagement metrics may be the best way to stamp out influencer fraud" INFLUENCER Mar 6th, 2019

Influencer CEO: "Changing our focus to engagement metrics may be the best way to stamp out influencer fraud"

Night Media's Reed Duchscher on how boutique management and in-house marketing is the way to influencer success in 2019 NIGHT MEDIA PROFILE Feb 21st, 2019

Night Media's Reed Duchscher on how boutique management and in-house marketing is the way to influencer success in 2019

Fourth Floor Creative: "influence is the byproduct of what creators do, not the purpose of it" FOURTH FLOOR Jan 18th, 2019

Fourth Floor Creative: "influence is the byproduct of what creators do, not the purpose of it"

The Blogger Programme: "The most exciting thing about the influencer marketing space is that you never know what’s coming next." TBP Sep 13th, 2018

The Blogger Programme: "The most exciting thing about the influencer marketing space is that you never know what’s coming next."

Job News

Fourth Floor Creative appoints first COO FF HIRE Jul 11th, 2019

Fourth Floor Creative appoints first COO

ByteDance snaps up former Facebook executive to further TikTok expansion BYTEDANCE EXPANSION Jun 19th, 2019

ByteDance snaps up former Facebook executive to further TikTok expansion

Takumi announces new company CEO and CRO DOUBLE HIRE Apr 3rd, 2019

Takumi announces new company CEO and CRO

StreamElements names former Twitch veteran as head of communications NEW JOB Apr 2nd, 2019

StreamElements names former Twitch veteran as head of communications

Campaigns

Ted to Toe in micro-influencers: Ted Baker's marketing success TED TO TOE Apr 30th, 2019

Ted to Toe in micro-influencers: Ted Baker's marketing success

Case study: How Wish's #TimeOnYourHands campaign hooked the discount shopper WISH CAMPAIGN Mar 7th, 2019

Case study: How Wish's #TimeOnYourHands campaign hooked the discount shopper

Case study: selling flowers for Valentine's Day in the 21st century VALENTINE CAMPAIGN Feb 14th, 2019

Case study: selling flowers for Valentine's Day in the 21st century

Case study: How Zorka.Mobi and Azur Games used influencer marketing in Latin America for a mobile game campaign CASE STUDY Jan 8th, 2019

Case study: How Zorka.Mobi and Azur Games used influencer marketing in Latin America for a mobile game campaign

Events News

East meets West at G-STAR 2019, Asia's largest game exhibition in Busan, Korea, on November 14-17th - early bird registration now open! G-STAR Global Game Exhibition 2019 Jul 9th, 2019

East meets West at G-STAR 2019, Asia's largest game exhibition in Busan, Korea, on November 14-17th - early bird registration now open!

Druid Gaming announces inaugural StreamCon event StreamCon 2019 Jun 27th, 2019

Druid Gaming announces inaugural StreamCon event

Inaugural Influencer Marketing Awards shortlist revealed Influencer Marketing Awards Mar 8th, 2019

Inaugural Influencer Marketing Awards shortlist revealed

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