The speed is what stuns: eBay’s had 30 years to build what TikTok did in two. With explosive growth across Asia and an aggressive global rollout, TikTok Shop’s yearly GMV hit $33.2B in 2024, tripling from 2023, and proving that the future of e-commerce might be built on short videos, not search bars

Heads-up for planning: YouTube also added an optional Shorts daily timer that can pause feeds after a set limit, except slightly shorter binge windows. Front-load your hook and CTA.

3- Takedown routine: For matches that aren’t you, use the privacy/deepfake removal flow; document URLs and timestamps as proof for faster action.

2- Tweak your brief/contract language: Add a simple line that consent covers likeness-detection checks and outlines the takedown path for AI look-alikes.

Do this next:

1- Enroll & scan: In YouTube Studio → Content detection, set up likeness detection, and submit your face reference; review matches weekly.

Why it matters: Faster flags on deepfakes and impersonations = cleaner brand safety ops and fewer “is that really them?” headaches.

Exciting 😃

So we’re basically sitting on those 2 categories of evergreen content.”

So the existing kind of foundation that we did for those 4 years helped to kind of give the channel some basic constant passive income, and then on top of that, we are now at the point where we have built up a good catalogue of non-Ark, story-explained videos.

We’re still doing commissions and other stuff for Ark creators, but we are not covering that on Neddy the Noodle at all.

I just thought to myself, I wanna grow my own channel, and I wanna be able to make this much more than it currently is, and hire more people and everything. So I decided to move away from Ark, and then this year we completely dropped it basically.