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📡 Issue #2 · Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 6-minute read
This week: Matt Wolfe in the Special Spotlight, Paulina Cocina as our Premiere, four channels to surf, Mid Mod Music for a long work session, a Kid-Safe pick, a free-plan test of Gling and four AI-tool affiliate programs you can apply to. Also on ChannelZap News: a month after Made on YouTube, custom Home feeds have started rolling out to signed-in US viewers using English (https://channelzap.com/news/).
DRAFT: scheduled for Saturday, October 24, 2026. Facts checked Oct 24, 2026; subscriber bands and prices change, so they are re-checked on approval day.
📺 The Big Premiere · 🇦🇷 Argentina · ES · 1M+ subs
Paulina Cocina has been on YouTube since June 2009 and now has about 4.73 million subscribers and over 1,600 videos. It's made in Argentina, and the voice is unmistakably rioplatense, with plenty of local slang. The channel description promises 'recetas fáciles, postres rápidos y comidas que te sacarán de apuro' and, just as honestly, 'niños gritando' and 'mamá retando niños.' The recipes are weeknight food made with what's in the fridge: sweet-potato ñoquis with four ingredients, explained step by step, or a run of quick air-fryer recipes. Long videos usually arrive on Wednesdays, with Shorts in between.
Why now: #AyudaPaulina returned for a new season on Sun Oct 18 (episode 'Concurso de guisos #AyudaPaulina Ep. 7', published that day); 14 uploads in the 30 days to Oct 24.
Upload rhythm: New videos Wednesdays and Sundays (per the channel description: 'Nuevos videos MIÉRCOLES y DOMINGOS')
Sources: Paulina Cocina channel page (4.73M subscribers, 1,653 videos, country Argentina; fetched Oct 24, 2026) · #AyudaPaulina season announcement (Short, Oct 16, 2026) · #AyudaPaulina Ep. 7: Concurso de guisos (Oct 18, 2026) · Watch-first: ñoquis con 4 ingredientes · Watch-first: recetas para freidora de aire
Four channels, three countries, 2 continents. Subscriber bands from public YouTube channel pages, checked Oct 24, 2026.
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CH 01 · 🤖 AI Creators
Spanish-language tutorials on AI tools for making content: image, video, agents, prompting. About two long videos a week; his most-watched recent one builds an AI agent in 15 minutes without code. His videos include labeled paid sponsor segments, and his descriptions carry sponsor and affiliate links.
▶ Watch first: Crea tu primer AGENTE de IA en 15 minutos (sin programar)
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CH 02 · 🎮 Gaming & Esports
Not a let's-play channel: these are a solo developer's devlogs for his own cozy farming-and-bakery game, Dough it Yourself, built in Unity with models made in Blender. One episode adds five farm machines, from a windmill to a jam maker; Devlog #4 builds a save system and a character creator and swaps placeholder art for new hand-drawn artwork. Long devlogs come every six to eight weeks: Devlog #4 has drawn about 27,600 views on a channel under 3K subscribers, and Devlog #5, 'The Bakery', went up on Oct 24. He asks viewers to wishlist the game on Steam and offers channel memberships.
▶ Watch first: 6 Months of Game Development | Devlog #4
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CH 03 · 🍳 Cooking, Baking & Global Food
Ranch cooking with roots in Michoacán, made on a wood-fired stove with clay pots and simple ingredients: the channel promises 'el verdadero sabor de nuestras abuelitas'. Short step-by-step recipe videos several times a week, from guava mole to potato and squash-blossom tortitas.
▶ Watch first: Mole Rojo De Guayaba De Mi Rancho A Tu Cocina
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CH 04 · 🎥 Documentaries
A long-running Mexican travel channel whose recent Egypt series includes documentary-style episodes. Start with his visit to the new Grand Egyptian Museum, where he compares it with the old museum in Tahrir Square and explains how Khufu's solar boat was reassembled. His video descriptions include an eSIM affiliate code and other promotional links; ChannelZap isn't affiliated.
▶ Watch first: Ya visité el NUEVO MUSEO EGIPCIO 4K | Alan por el mundo Egipto #10
🔦 Special Spotlight · 🇺🇸 United States · EN · 1M+ subs
Matt Wolfe joined YouTube in April 2009, when his channel was about WordPress and building websites. In late 2022 he turned his own spreadsheet of AI tools into a searchable site, FutureTools.io, and when his AI videos began outperforming his marketing ones, he refocused the channel on AI.
Today the channel describes itself as 'sifting through all the AI noise to share what actually matters', with a new video every Friday. Future Tools is now an AI news site and newsletter, and he co-hosts The Next Wave, a HubSpot podcast, with Nathan Lands.
Every Friday he goes through the week's AI releases and tests the new models himself on camera, so you see results instead of just announcements.
He's on camera throughout, with screen recordings of the tools he's testing; the weekly roundup is a fast way to catch up on a busy week.
AI News: 6 New Models & A Nano Banana KillerA typical Friday roundup: a week of new image and video models, tried on screen.
Claude Opus 5.5 Didn’t Need to Go This HardA single-model deep dive: benchmarks and pricing for a new release, explained on camera.
Matt Wolfe runs Future Tools (an AI news site and newsletter) and co-hosts The Next Wave podcast; some of his videos include paid sponsor segments. ChannelZap has no affiliation with him and wasn't paid for this feature.
Sources: Matt Wolfe channel About + YouTube Data API (Oct 24, 2026) · Matt Wolfe: Introducing Future Tools (Dec 22, 2022) · Future Tools: About · The Next Wave (YouTube About) · Ray Edwards interview with Matt Wolfe (2023) · ChannelWho Spotlight: Matt Wolfe
▶ Midnight at the Carousel Bar 🍸 Retro Cocktail Jazz & Bossa Nova | Mid Mod Music
🎵 Music Channels · 🇺🇸 United States · Instrumental · 10K–100K subs
Mid Mod Music posts hour-long mixes of what the channel calls 'Original vintage-inspired instrumental music': 1950s and '60s lounge, cool jazz, bossa nova and tiki-bar exotica. Each one is built around an imagined place, like a desert gas station, a rotating cocktail bar or a 'house of tomorrow' subdivision, with its own artwork and a full tracklist. A new mix arrives about once a week.
Started in September 2025, the channel has about 24.5K subscribers and roughly 2.06M total views. Put a mix on for a dinner party or a long work session.
Start here: an hour of retro cocktail jazz and bossa nova over a single lounge illustration; a fair sample of the channel's format.
Sources: YouTube channel · Quote: 'JET SET IN PARIS' description (Oct 16, 2026) · Watch-first mix · YouTube Data API (Oct 24, 2026)
🛡️ Kid-Safe Pick · 🛡️ Kid-Safe · Age band: Early childhood ('primera infancia', in the channel's own words)
Toy Cantando is the official channel of a Colombian record label that, in its own words, specializes in music, videos and educational content for early childhood ('la primera infancia'). Its characters include La Vaca Lola, El Muñeco Pin Pon and La Patita Lulú. It posts several times a week in Latin American Spanish, mostly short songs and riddles plus longer compilations (for example, La Canción de los Bichitos, Oct 16). It's a Kid-Safe pick: its 50 latest videos are set as made for kids on YouTube (checked Oct 24, 2026). Kid-Safe picks are channels YouTube marks as made for kids. Parents should still use YouTube Kids and parental controls.
How Kid-Safe picks work: Kid-Safe. Never for sale.
Sources: Toy Cantando channel page · YouTube Data API: videos.list (made-for-kids status), checked Oct 24, 2026 · Example: La Canción de los Bichitos (Oct 16, 2026)
🧰 The Ecosystem · AI software
Gling is a desktop editor built for talking-head YouTube videos. You upload a raw recording, it transcribes the speech, and its AI cuts bad takes, silences and filler words; you then fix anything it got wrong by editing the text or the timeline. When you're done, you export an MP4 or MP3 with an .srt caption file, or send the cut timeline to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro. The limits to know: the free plan covers 1 hour of footage a month, adds a watermark and can't export to Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve. Plus covers 10 hours a month and Pro 30. The app's interface is in English, but it works on speech in 24 languages, including Spanish and Portuguese. Multicam and separate-mic projects only work if you export to Resolve or Final Cut. Videos without speech aren't a good fit, by Gling's own account.
Verdict: Worth a free test if you record long takes and spend hours cutting them down. Try a single video on the free plan first; pay only if the rough cuts save you real time.
Who it's for: Talking-head creators, in English or Spanish, who cut their own long-form videos and want a rough cut done for them.
Not sponsored. No affiliate link. Gling also appears in ChannelZap's Creator Desk tools list. Prices checked Oct 24, 2026 on gling.ai/pricing (monthly and annual tabs).
Sources: Gling pricing and FAQ (plans, hour limits, free-plan export limits, supported languages, multicam/separate-mic notes) · Gling homepage (upload → AI removes bad takes, silences and filler words → refine → export to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere or MP4/MP3 with SRT captions)
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