MrBeast’s sugar rush is fading. The growth of the YouTuber’s main candy company, Feastables, has slowed considerably in the last year, according to internal data seen by Business Insider. U.S. sales volume grew 13% year over year in 2025, following a 33% jump the year before, according to a May 2026 presentation. The company sold
Disney is exploring making some of its streaming content available at an unbeatable price: free. The Mouse House is considering making some content accessible on Disney+ without a paywall, according to two people familiar with the matter. Chief product and technology officer Adam Smith discussed enabling free-tier content during a streaming town hall Thursday afternoon,
If your Instagram account is public, your photos, including your profile photo, can now be targeted by other people’s AI creations, unless you change a hidden setting in the app. Meta’s new Muse Image model, introduced Tuesday, allows users to generate AI images using public Instagram posts by tagging another person’s account in a message.
Fox One’s World Cup marketing playbook is all about letting the creators do the scoring. The World Cup is a high-stakes moment for Fox One, which described the tournament as a “second launch” for the subscription streaming service that debuted last August. Fox One had to make sure its creativity punched above its weight to
Do you remember going to the video? For those of you who weren’t paying attention to the media industry a decade ago: that’s when publishers spent an enormous amount of time and money trying to become video creators, hoping to cash in on the traffic and revenue bonanza fueled by Facebook. That one didn’t work.
Netflix is again experimenting with new types of content on its streaming service, as the binge model has become obsolete. After expanding its service to include live content, video games and, most recently, video podcasts, the streamer now adds video content from publishers such as BuzzFeed Studios, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, People Inc., Tastemade and