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Tube Trends: The Curious Case of James Talarico
James Talarico’s late-night interviews have been moved to YouTube twice — and it may actually be helping the Senate candidate.
Tube Trends: Why Do Media Companies Avoid Lawn Care Videos?
Lawn care videos are dominated almost entirely by creators, but that makes for a golden opportunity for media.
Tube Trends: Media Cuts Out Middle Man On Creator-Like Content
Media companies are less interested in trying to make short and vertical video content to compete with creators recently. Instead, they’re just paying creators to make it for them.
Tube Trends: Spider-Man’s Swinging Social Success
Spider-Man’s latest box office triumph had some supersized help from social video hype.
Tube Trends: What Media Companies Can Learn From The World Cup
The World Cup provided media companies with some significant takeaways around how to handle future events — with or without broadcast rights.
Tube Trends: Media Emphasizes Theatrical For Summer Movie Season
Theatrical trailers made up many of the most-viewed U.S. media videos in June 2026, as these creators push for movie audiences.
Tube Trends: How ESPN Is Covering World Cup Without TV Rights
ESPN doesn’t have World Cup rights, but is still finding ways to cover the event via social video.
Tube Trends: World Cup Gives Brands Rare Chance To Connect Globally
The biggest World Cup ever gives brands an opportunity to forge global audience connections — something many are doing via YouTube already.
Tube Trends: On YouTube, Colbert Lands Where Fans Already Are
Colbert’s potential YouTube move is a migration to where he — and the rest of traditional late night — has already established an engaged audience.
Tube Trends: How YouTube Creators Are Using Longer Videos To Compete With TV
YouTube wants its creators to make more TV-like content. From a run-time perspective, the transition is already happening on the platform.
Tube Trends: Can YouTube Be Everything, Everywhere, All At Once?
At Upfronts, YouTube made the case that it IS TV. It’s hard to deny the platform has a hold on audience attention at this point.
Tube Trends: Now Creators Are Taking Over The NFL Draft
The NFL’s YouTube strategy around the NFL Draft has a long-form creator flavor to it.
Tube Trends: How TurboTax Owns Tax Season On YouTube
TurboTax’s 2026 approach to tax season shows how a brand can use social video to drive significant audience reach and control conversation in the lead-up to a specific event.
Tube Trends: Eventful Q1 Fuels Cable News YouTube Views Increases
A tumultuous March of news drove increased YouTube viewership for cable networks like Fox News, CNN and MS Now, as Tubular data revealed.
Tube Trends: Summer House Scandal Spurs Social Spike For Show
It’s been less than a week since “Scamanda” broke and Summer House hype is growing rapidly on social video as fans try to sleuth out where it all went sideways.
Tube Trends: How Are Brands Scoring On Social With March Madness?
Which brands are finding ways to engage with fans on social video via the excitement around March Madness?
Tube Trends: Spider-Man Spins Web Of Video Success
Spider-Man’s social video success showcases just how big the character is — at a time when there are doubts about the superhero genre.
Tube Trends: Assessing The Pre-Oscars YouTube Cycle
What is driving Oscars video trends in the lead-up to this year’s awards?
Tube Trends: Late-Night Fights Headwinds With YouTube
Late-night TV is under fire… but have already found YouTube as a workaround to the various challenges being lobbed at it.
Tube Trends: MrBeast Uses Giveaways To Hit New Highs
MrBeast’s focus on giveaways has fueled all-time highs in views and engagement — and has laid the groundwork for content growth that brands and publishers haven’t necessarily picked up on yet.

