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Open the Creator Desk →Latest issue · #1 · Oct 16, 2026
Our first lineup: CuriosaMente from Guadalajara, six channels from six countries, how to launch your first channel, and what changes in the YouTube Partner Program on Feb 1, 2027.
Subscriber counts are shown as bands and checked on the date listed in each issue.
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CH 01 · 🤖 AI Creators
New AI and graphics research papers explained in short, excitable videos. Eight uploads in the past month; the channel's motto is 'What a time to be alive!'
▶ Watch first: DeepMind's New AI Just Cracked The Code Of Life
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CH 02 · 🎮 Gaming & Esports
Experts walk through video games. This month: pilots, including a former Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15 pilot, fly and inspect Ace Combat 8. The episodes carry an English audio track.
▶ Watch first: 【プロ大絶賛】エースコンバット最新作の本格飛行をパイロットと体験してみた #1【ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE /ゲームさんぽ】
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CH 03 · 🍳 Cooking, Baking & Global Food
A grandfather-led family in Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu, cooks huge traditional feasts outdoors, then shares the food with local care homes. Little dialogue, so it works in any language.
▶ Watch first: MUD CHICKEN | Whole Chicken Cooked in Covered Clay | Ancient Cooking Method | Village Chicken Recipe
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CH 04 · 🎥 Documentaries
Engineering documentaries. Its Sagrada Família film has 21 audio tracks (English plus 20 dubs, from Arabic to Telugu): a live example of multi-language audio at scale.
▶ Watch first: Sagrada Familia - Full Documentary
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CH 05 · 🎮 Gaming & Esports
A solo game-design devlog that's honest about the hard part: actually sitting down to build the game. Two new devlogs this month.
▶ Watch first: Fixing My Procrastination To Build My Game (Devlog)
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CH 06 · 🧒 Kid-Safe & Family
Nursery rhymes and original songs that the channel describes as made for ages 1 to 8. It's celebrating 20 years this season with a Halloween run of new songs.
▶ Watch first: Halloween Night | 🍕 Dress Up As Food You Like for Halloween Night! | Super Simple Songs
🦉 ChannelWho · YouTuber Spotlight
ChannelWho is our spotlight on new and small creators: channels under 10K subscribers or started recently, from every country and niche. Each review says what the channel is, why it's worth your time, which video to start with, and how we checked it.
provisional 1–10K subs
It's about the part most devlogs skip: actually sitting down to build the game. The two newest videos (Oct 1 and Oct 13, 2026) deal openly with procrastination and…
provisional 1–10K subs
Clear, classroom-length lessons (the rock-cycle video runs about 20 minutes) that a student can actually study from. Recent lessons also carry many multi-language audio…
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Every Friday morning. Each language edition is timed to arrive around 7–8 am local time in its main markets.
We check every channel on its public YouTube page (country, language, recent uploads, subscriber count) and score it for watchability, originality, momentum, global appeal and trust. We show subscriber counts as bands, like 1–10K, with the date we checked.
