Facebook debuts premieres, a feature that turns videos into community events

The premieres feature was introduced on Twitch earlier this year

• Facebook
• Streaming
• content

Online fashion retailer Revolve mentions ‘influencer’ 79 times in $100m IPO filing

Social media referred to on 50 occasions

• Marketing
• influencer marketing
• Influencer
• Brands
• IPO
• working with brands

David Dobrik, Casey Neistat and Emma Chamberlain headline Streamy Awards nominations

The finalists have been revealed ahead of October 22nd event

• Awards
• Event
• Streamy Awards

InfluencerUpdate.biz is looking for freelance feature writers

We're on the hunt for regular monthly contributors and one-off pitches

• Jobs

Minecraft hosts 90 million monthly active users

The second-highest selling game of all time found an extra 20 million monthly users in 2018

• Minecraft

Channel Frederator backs YouTube animators with $1m Creative Fund

Any of its members can pitch for a cut

• funding
• animation

YouTube reveals ads that let you make external purchases without leaving

New adverts allow you to make third party purchases without navigating away from the site

• YouTube
• ads

Instagram names Facebook veteran Adam Mosseri as new CEO

The hire comes just a week after Instagram's co-founders departed

• Instagram
• new hire

Top 10 most watched and trending channels of the week

These are the top 10 most watched channels this week

Top 10 streamed games of the week: a five year old favourite makes an appearance

The top ten most streamed games this week

• games
• streamers
• top ten

YouTube partner manager applications close on October 3rd

Creators over 100k subs can apply to become a YouTube partner

Twins pocket €5 million for Minecraft YouTube videos

Content creators earned salary of €968,424 last year

• YouTube
• Minecraft
• money

Snapchat and Amazon’s new partnership lets people search for products with their smartphone camera

Users need to simply take a photo of a desired product or its barcode and purchase it on Amazon

• Snapchat
• Amazon
• Retail

Share your influencer marketing insights at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019

Open call for speakers from the mobile games industry, as well as PC, blockchain and VR/AR for January event

• PG Connects
• PG Connects London
• london
• speakers
• Event
• Pocket Gamer Connects London

YouTube will soon launch official app for Oculus Go

The company didn't set a release date for the app

• YouTube
• Oculus