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Dr Samuel Farohunbi, a Nigerian AI educator, is building technology platforms like Freebyz and Payhankey to create jobs and opportunities for creators. Read More: https://punchng.com/dr-samuel-farohunbi-the-nigerian-ai-educator-building-technology-for-jobs-creators-and-the-next-generation-of-innovators/

Thirty years after they dreamt up the series, Dave Jones and Brian Baglow are as desperate as everyone else to get their hands on the new game.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for The Body now streaming on Netflix. Though Netflix’s new YA horror series The Body thrives on mass hysteria, or “group think” as creator Quinn Shephard calls it, Shephard and co-showrunner Gina Gammell stress that there are no wrong individual interpretations of the first season’s ending and what happened […]

Robby Berger, who joined forces with Dave Portnoy to launch the Internet Invitational, explains how they came up with $4 million in prize money, muses about going live and addresses every controversy at the tournament so far.

A new report from KPMG shines a lot on where the content spend is flowing, and traditional film and TV is losing out.

EXCLUSIVE: Kristen McGuinness has joined Untitled as an L.A.-based Creators Manager. McGuinness joins after four years at Range Media Partners, where she represented a wide range of creator and crossover talent. Clients coming with her include Bre Rook, CineMonika, Haylee Joe, Jay (flossybaby), Sayeh Soltani, Soleon and Tyler Wells. Prior to Range, McGuinnes

The Nigeria Police Force is partnering with tech firms to track deepfake creators and combat AI-driven disinformation ahead of the 2027 general elections. Read More: https://punchng.com/2027-police-partner-tech-firms-to-track-deepfake-creators/

Cairo-based jewellery designer and artist Youssef Mohammed Karam Hussein has been named one of five finalists in the Creators of Craft Design Challenge, organised by IQOS in collaboration with Vogue Arabia and with the participation of Italian design house SELETTI. Hussein, the only Egyptian in the final round, will compete alongside four designers from the

Adobe is embracing AI in an effort to make its suite of creative tools more powerful and efficient than ever. But the company also recognizes that not all of its customers want to use AI in their work. In the kickoff keynote session for Adobe MAX 2026 creativity conference, Adobe’s incoming CEO Anil Chakravarthy announced […]

The long-running initiative celebrating the best of the internet will allow winners, nominees and other honored individuals to claim their work, with Shonda Rhimes and Adam Scott among the founding members.

Digital creators Dom Brack, Blake Hooker and Hunter Rowland are set to star in Brilliance Productions’ coming-of-age mystery film “The Anchor In Us.” The film is currently in postproduction and will be introduced to buyers at the American Film Market for the festival circuit in 2027. The official logline reads: “A group of college friends […]

For brothers Kanish and Rish Arhant-Sudhir, family fun means collaborating to write and direct a film based on their culture, creating characters based on their own grandmother and casting their great aunt to play her. The duo’s first feature film “Namaslay” does all of this as a horror satire that ignites conversation about the appropriation […]

“Passing Strange” will seem just a little less strange to theatergoers now than it might have when it opened on Broadway in 2007 and scored big wins at the Tonys, the Drama Desk Awards and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards. Without naming any names, there are plenty of successful shows since then that […]

The Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Prof Obiora Okonkwo, has challenged Nigerian universities to prioritise entrepreneurship and practical skills development, saying graduates must be prepared to create jobs rather than depend solely on paid employment. Read More: https://punchng.com/varsities-should-produce-job-creators-not-job-seekers-airline-ceo/

The Nigeria Revenue Service has urged content creators and other operators in the creative industry to formalise their businesses, obtain tax identification numbers and maintain proper financial… Read More: https://punchng.com/nrs-urges-content-creators-to-register-businesses-for-tax-relief/

Gaming and digital media veterans Mike Lee and Darren Yan have joined together to launch ISO, a talent management firm that specializes in representing the hottest commodities in marketing and media these days: creators and livestreaming personalities. Based in Los Angeles, Lee and Yan have quietly been building ISO’s operations for about a year, with […]

Scott MacFarlane has traded in the desk once sat behind at CBS News on Election Night for something more direct — livestreamed midterms coverage for the progressive outlet MeidasTouch. He won’t have someone manipulating a Magic Wall or Big Board. He won’t be introduced by swelling orchestral music. And he won’t be competing with colleagues […]

EXCLUSIVE: UK agent Lucy Loveridge, a former global entertainment chief at YMU, has launched a London agency repping creators. Loveridge’s outfit, Nothing to See Here, opens with her former YMU client Jesse Burgess, who is part of the successful Topjaw YouTube duo. Burgess’ Topjaw partner Will Warr remains with YMU. Loveridge is a former global […]

Vodka can be used to make everything from an espresso martini to a Moscow Mule. One Super Bowl advertiser hopes people will use the beverage in a bid to make $500,000. After tapping AI to help craft a 30-second commercial in Super Bowl LX, Svedka Vodka will instead turn to fans and followers and ask […]

A new Japanese anime award planned for 2027 should put the people who make anime in the spotlight, industry leaders said at TIFFCOM, the market of the Tokyo International Film Festival. The session was moderated by Fujitsu Ryota, programming advisor for the festival’s animation section. Shimizu Akira, a director of the Association of Japanese Animations […]

Yoruba cultural storyteller Ayo Adams speaks on his journey, responsible digital storytelling, and the dangers of sensationalising traditions for views. Read More: https://punchng.com/content-creators-exploit-fears-about-traditional-beliefs-for-views-ayo-adams/

Voicemod, a Spain-based maker of sound boards and voice-changing technology, is making audio clips from Star Wars characters available to users via a licensing deal with Disney. The Mandalorian and Grogu are the first characters to be featured, and Marvel characters also will also be part of the offering in the future, the company said. […]

Muhammed Riswan from Malappuram is one of the 25 recipients of the Instagram Rings 2026, a creator award by the social media platform, selected by a jury of 14 members that includes A$AP Rocky, Donatella Versace and Chef Vikas Khanna, among others

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Photographers and videographers in Delta State will pitch for contracts paying up to N200,000 monthly at an event in Asaba designed to connect them with bu Read More: https://punchng.com/creators-to-compete-for-contracts-paying-n200000-monthly/

Instagram is testing long-form videos (again) to lure in creatives from YouTube, but the platform hasn't figured out how (or if) it'll actually pay them. After Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced Features on Monday, creators immediately started voicing their complaints on Threads and Reddit about the lack of monetization opportunities, compared to the ad s

Britain's Chancellor John Healey delivered a "steady as you go" budget on Wednesday, outlining measures to curb some of the effects of the wars in the Middle East without spooking bond markets. He pledged fiscal discipline in the face of “global economic storms” as he delivered the first budget of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s new Labour administration. Mr H

Meta’s Instagram is trying to make itself a better place for watching and sharing longer-form entertainment content from digital creators, including testing out video lengths of up to 90 minutes and letting users watch Reels and more on Apple TV. The moves are meant to position Instagram as a bigger potential competitor to YouTube. But […]

Select creators in the U.S. Monday and will be able to test out the new product, which could make the platform more of a destination for full video podcasts.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “The New Stanford Prison Experiment,” now streaming on Netflix. “The New Stanford Prison Experiment” ends on a far more hopeful note than Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo’s original 1971 trial. The first iteration of the Stanford prison experiment took 24 white male college students (save one Asia

The West Hollywood event, presented by UTA, brought out TikTok's finest.

The studios are offering rich deals to grow engagement on their platforms. The Google-owned video giant is punching back with its own offers — and threats.