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Electrify hires YouTube, VICE vets to deepen creator-funding push

Tubefilter’s Sam Gutelle reports that U.K. creator-economy financier Electrify, backer of YouTube hitmakers like Veritasium, has hired former VICE programming head Al Brown to lead editorial and ex-YouTube EMEA operations chief Patrick Walker to lead strategy.

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