Olha Kapinos
Creative Economy Consultant
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Olha Kapinos
Creative Economy Consultant
Olha works in the creator economy and follows it everywhere — from VidCon floors to TechCrunch stages. When she's not tracking trends, she's cycling across continents. She writes about what she actually sees, not what the industry wants you to think.
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9 Nov 2026
1.2 Million Views for One Album: The Maneken's NOVA ERA on YouTube
NOVA ERA is an album by The Maneken, a band and solo project of Eugene Filatov, a Ukrainian composer and arranger creating music for artists, advertising, and film, a sound producer for ONUKA, and a member of the European and Ukrainian Film Academies. On YouTube, the album has more than 1.2 million views. Five songs got music videos, and the whole album got a live version, released one song at a time as 14 live videos.
4 Nov 2026
Who's Growing Fastest on YouTube in 2026: The Top Channels, the Hot Niches, and What They Pay
Kids content grew faster than any other YouTube niche in September 2026, and it pays the least. Kids channels with 10,000 to 100,000 subscribers gained a median 1.59% subscribers a month in TubeAI's study of 144,370 channels, yet the niche earns a median $0.33 per 1,000 views in AIR Media-Tech's data from 300 channels. Education and science grow more slowly and pay $10.22.
2 Nov 2026
How to Get Your Videos on YouTube Kids in 2026: 5 Required Steps for Creators
You can’t upload videos to YouTube Kids directly. You upload them to your regular YouTube channel, and YouTube decides which ones go into the YouTube Kids app. Its automated filters check the title, the thumbnail, and the video itself, and people on the YouTube Kids team review samples of those decisions and the videos parents flag.