Meanwhile, At Sports Illustrated

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Things to know:

1. The presidential primaries have officially started

2. Meta announces it will Meta. Secretly stockpiling mass quantities of highly sought-after semiconductors.

3. Boeing Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Miami

4. Consumer sentiment surged this last few days. On Friday, the S&P market closed at a record high for the first time in two years.

5. [Breaking] RIP Sports Illustrated: Iconic Magazine Lays Off Staff, Future Uncertain

YouTube Laying Off 100 Members of Creator Partnerships Team

• YouTube is undergoing a major “restructing”, with changes to creator management and operations teams, resulting in around 100 roles being eliminated— including youtube parters.

• This was expected, but still a surporse. The reorganization is following a strategy outlined by Mary Ellen Coe, YouTube's chief business officer, who took over in early 2023.

• What does this man ? Content creator management teams will be centralized in each individual country, aiming to better support creators and scale core, country-specific teams.

• How doest this affect creators? YouTube is consolidating music teams into a global force reporting to Google/YouTube's head of music and combining various sports, media, film, and TV teams into a single global team.

• What next? The support team is being split into creator-facing and customer/user-facing teams to provide more specialized support and streamline YouTube's business as it handles a growing creator base and new technologies.

Headlines

Marques Brownlee: "I'm Not Quitting," Takes on Advisory Role at a New AI Company.

• Marques Brownlee , aka, MKBHD, has joined Glystn, contributing feedback during the development of the platform's AI-driven community engagement features. Glystn, aiming to help creators in scaling their businesses through intelligent automation.

• Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee has joined Glystn as an advisor, a first-of-its-kind AI-driven community engagement platform for creators.

• Glystn introduces new AI-powered features including competitive listening, sentiment analysis, and content ideation, aiming to help creators optimize engagement and scale their online communities. Beyond the buzzwords. It’s software for creators.

• The platform raised $4 million in funding from investors such as Eniac Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Hannah Grey VC, and Future Perfect Ventures, reinforcing its mission to support creators through technology.

The Rich gathered at World Economic Forum took place in Davos, Switzerland.

Global leaders discussed various global issues . The high level items include:

• Boosting resilience after a challenging few years.

• Addressing the empowerment gap and economic inclusion: “tax us.”

• Additionally, discussions covered predictions about a U.S. recession — the consensus not believing the U.S. would fall into a recession in 2024.

RIP Sports Illustrated?

• Sports Illustrated's publisher, The Arena Group, has cut the team, if not all, of the magazine's staff.

• The layoffs come after the publisher announced a significant reduction in its workforce and Authentic Brands Group terminated Arena's license to publish Sports Illustrated.

• Despite the layoffs, ABG has stated that Sports Illustrated will continue, but the details of its future are uncertain.

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