Creator Economy

Federal antitrust lawyers say the $110 billion merger should increase competition. That is a narrow way to describe one owner holding Paramount, Warner Bros., Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS, CNN and a deep sports-rights shelf.

MrBeast just passed 500 million YouTube subscribers — the first person ever to do it, now bigger than any single channel on the platform. File it under the hundred-year view: one private citizen with the standing audience of a continent, handed to him by no one.