Janice Min

4 weeks ago | likeandsubscribenews.substack.com | Janice Min

Tomorrow a group of top YouTube creators including MrBeast, Dude Perfect, Ryan Trahan and Kinigra Deon will convene in New York to unveil their programming for an invite-only crowd of top brand CMOs and advertising agency execs. The goal: to siphon off more of the money that has historically flowed into TV ad budgets.

1 month ago | likeandsubscribenews.substack.com | Janice Min

I write about creators, digital platforms and the $250B global industry they power. I reported on Emma Chamberlain’s financial struggles with her coffee company, why Carla Lalli Music lost money making videos for YouTube and what Dude Perfect is doing with its $100M PE investment. Email me tips, ideas and memes at [email protected] may look back on the past year as another big inflection point for Hollywood: when the legacy companies stopped chasing Netflix and started chasing YouTube.

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Tom Sykes |Tina Brown |Janice Min

Tina Brown, the founding editor of The Daily Beast, has delivered a withering verdict on Meghan Markle’s much-derided new Netflix show, arguing that With Love, Meghan represents a colossal failure on the part of the Sussexes to successfully transition into non-royal life. Following a Substack chat with Janice Min, the founder of the Hollywood gossip newsletter The Ankler, last week, Brown has devoted a significant chunk of her newsletter Fresh Hell to the show this week.

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Tom Sykes |Nandika Chatterjee |Tina Brown |Janice Min

Netflix said on Friday that it has already completed filming on a second season of Meghan Markle’s lifestyle show, With Love, Meghan, and that it will screen in the Fall. The news came after the first season of the show, which dropped Tuesday, generated massive worldwide interest, despite being panned in reviews.

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Tom Sykes |Tina Brown |Janice Min

Tina Brown, the founding editor of The Daily Beast, has said that Meghan Markle’s much-derided new Netflix show is a “cultural fossil” and that her appearance on it was “unbelievably inauthentic.” In a Substack chat with Janice Min, the founder of the Hollywood gossip newsletter The Ankler, Min joked that the show, With Love, Meghan, felt like it was filmed in a “mental institution for wealthy women” and that Meghan’s guests looked like they were in “a hostage situation.” Brown said: “To me,...