Good morning. Issa Rae is partnering with streaming platform Tubi to launch Stubio, a program that will help creators get their streaming projects greenlit. Rae was the first YouTube creator to get an HBO showโ€”it seems with this new initiative, sheโ€™s making sure sheโ€™s not the last.

Kai Cenat Headlines NBAโ€™s Revamped Creator Program

Kai Cenat joins the crowd at the New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics game on Wednesday in partnership with the NBA /ย NBA

In recent months, Kai Cenat has starred in a T-Mobile commercial with Snoop Dogg, launched his own meal with McDonaldโ€™s via his Twitch stream, and started his own basketball association. Now, Cenat is moving up to the big leagues.

The streamer is headlining the NBAโ€™s revamped, season-long creator program, starting with a collaboration during the season opener last night. Cenat shared exclusive content from the New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics matchup and joined the TNT broadcast crew to discuss his experience at the game.

How else is the NBA involving creators this season?ย 

  • Collaborations with @NBA. Commentary creator Drew Afualo is attending tonightโ€™s game between the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Clippers, sharing her POV across the NBAโ€™s social channels.

  • Creator Cup expansion. Last year, the NBA welcomed 12 sports creators (including Jenna Bandy and Jesser) to compete in its first โ€œCreator Cupโ€ basketball game. This season, the league will host three Creator Cups around marquee eventsโ€”the In-Season Tournament Finals, All-Star Weekend, and Summer League.

  • Access to the NBAโ€™s archives. The league is giving select creators including Thinking Basketball and Swish Cultures access to over 25,000 hours of game footage for use in their videos.

Big picture: Cenat may be the headliner, but the NBAโ€™s expanded partnerships program this season underscores the basketball nicheโ€™s deep bench of creatorsโ€”and their ability to drive interest in the sportโ€™s premier professional league.

Last season, creator collaborators helped generate more than 650 million video views across the NBAโ€™s social and digital channels, according to the league.

Should Creators Disclose Song Promos?

Marketing experts tell Billboard that unmarked song promos are fairly harmless, but it relates to a possible lack of media literacy /ย Billboard

When you watch a video with a trending sound on TikTok, have you ever wondered how many catchy songs on your FYP paid to be there? Hereโ€™s your answer: 75% of TikTokโ€™s top songs are funded by marketers, Billboard estimates.ย 

Context: Paid videos that use an artistโ€™s song, aka โ€œsound campaigns,โ€ have been a key part of music labelsโ€™ marketing strategies since TikTok rose to popularity.ย 

The FTC considers videos that use songs in the background as a gray area similar to product placement, meaning they donโ€™t require disclosure when marketers pay for songs to appear in videos and other content.ย 

But the line between unpaid enthusiasm for a song and a paid song promotion is hard to discernโ€”as evidenced by creatorsโ€™ growing confusion around which videos are actually paid for by marketers.

Looking ahead: Marketing experts told Billboard that unmarked song promos are fairly harmless. But the lack of awareness among creators re: whatโ€™s paid and whatโ€™s not points to the growing concern of media literacy, which is impacting other fields like politics and health.

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Creator Book Roundup: Bestseller Edition

(Left to right) Recent books by John Green, Nicolas โ€œNew York Nicoโ€ Heller, and Henry โ€œSalt Hankโ€ Laporte /ย Penguin Random House,ย HarperCollins,ย Simon & Schuster

Itโ€™s been a big week for creators hoping to add โ€œbestsellerโ€ to their bios. No wonder TikTokโ€™s owner ByteDance is on its way to making its own publishing house.

John Green announced his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, which will outline the history of the disease and how itโ€™s shaped our culture. The title will be published under Crash Course Books, a new imprint under Penguin Young Readers based off the Green Brosโ€™ Crash Course YouTube channel.

Nicolas โ€œNew York Nicoโ€ Heller released New York Nicoโ€™s Guide to NYC, which profiles mom-and-pop businesses around the five boroughs that give NYC its charm. Fellow creator Jeremy Cohen photographed the two-year-long project.

Henry โ€œSalt Hankโ€ Laporte released a cookbook, Salt Hank: A Five-Napkin Situation, which recently hit the New York Times bestseller list. It contains recipes for Laporteโ€™s dishes like lamb burgers and vodka parmesan that have gained upwards of 70 million views on TikTok.

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