The Tubi TikTok Creatorverse Incubator now has its first class: 12 TikTok creators making 10 original long-form series that will stream only on Tubi, Fox’s free, ad-supported service. The slate covers horror, animation, scripted comedy and reality, and a Tubi spokesperson told StreamTV Insider that the shows will roll out over several months beginning in December, with roughly four to six episodes each.
The cohort was announced on October 27, 2026, seven months after Tubi and TikTok first unveiled the program. For each creator it is a first TV show. For Tubi, it is the biggest bet it has made so far on building its own programming with creators instead of just licensing videos they have already posted elsewhere.
The 10 Tubi TikTok Creatorverse Incubator series by genre
Tubi says it picked creators whose work lines up with fandoms its viewers already watch. That shows in the mix: there are two horror titles, three animated series, and almost nothing that looks like a straight copy of a TikTok feed.
Horror: Would You Survive? and Scare Tours
Would You Survive? has Christopher Kiely (@christopherkiely) breaking down frightening movies, monsters and locations to judge whether an ordinary person could realistically get out alive. Scare Tours follows film expert Allie Tran (@chronicallyscary) to the real locations of famous scary movies, with special guests and the backstories behind them. Both are unscripted and both take formats that already work as short commentary clips and stretch them into episodes.
Animation: Feeling Super, The Roach Chronicles and Jamie Crow
Lynnell Jones Jr. (@felleanimated) created Feeling Super, an animated comedy about a broke young man who gets a new superpower every day and keeps turning his hero attempts into disasters. Kendria Bland (@kendria_bland) is behind The Roach Chronicles, about a dysfunctional cockroach family dealing with school, relationships and family drama. The darkest entry is Jamie Crow, an adult animated series from Sebastian Krahl (@sebastiank22) about an 18-year-old high school senior obsessed with serial killers who becomes convinced she can outdo them.
Scripted comedy: the Romano Brothers and The Leasing Manager
Never Have I Spent the Winter With the Romano Brothers stars Yasmine Sahid (@ladyyasmina1) as a city teenager who moves to small-town Alaska after losing her parents and gets caught between two brothers, played by Alex Maystrik and Pablo Hernandez (@durafest2). The Leasing Manager stars Madison Humphrey (@madison.humphreyy) as an apartment leasing manager chasing 100% occupancy while sabotaging a rival, dodging a police investigation and keeping tenants happy.
Unscripted: dating, travel and friendship
Comedian Kai Cameron (@kaicameronisacelebrity) hosts Kai Picks the Guy, a dating show where three men think they are there to date a woman and instead get vetted by Kai on one-on-one “dates.” Marc Sebastian (@marcsebastianf) travels around Australia’s unusual tourist experiences in his travel series; Variety and Media Play News list it as A Great Australian Gay Sidequest, while some outlets carried shorter or different versions of the name, so the final title may still change. Asking for a Friend pairs Sabrina Brier (@sabrina.cinoman.brier) with celebrity guests working through the small disasters of modern friendship.
Counting heads: the 10 series list 10 lead creators plus the two Romano Brothers co-stars, which matches the “12 creators” figure in Tubi’s announcement.
When the Tubi TikTok Creatorverse Incubator shows start streaming
No individual premiere dates have been published. What Tubi has said is that releases start in December and spread over several months, and that episode counts and running times will vary by creator, with most shows expected to land between four and six episodes. Everything will be free to watch with ads on Tubi, which reports more than 110 million monthly active users.
The shows will not be posted on TikTok. Instead, TikTok will use its TikTok Spotlight feature to promote the series and push fan conversation toward Tubi, according to the original Tubi press release from March.
How Tubi’s creator push grew from 200 to 700 creators
The incubator is the newest step in a fairly fast build-out. The numbers below come from Tubi’s own announcements:
- June 2025: Tubi launches Tubi for Creators, initially leaning on existing creator videos.
- January 2026: Kelon Campbell’s Terri Joe: Missionary in Miami, built on his TikTok Live characters, debuts at No. 8 on Variety’s streaming original movies chart.
- March 19, 2026: Tubi and TikTok announce the Creatorverse Incubator. Tubi says it has added more than 16,000 episodes from over 200 creators in 10 months.
- October 27, 2026: The first cohort is named. By now Tubi counts more than 35,000 episodes from over 700 creators, plus a Creatorverse Hub and creator content on Fire TV.
- December 2026: The first incubator series are due to begin rolling out.
That means the creator library more than doubled in about seven months, and the number of creators more than tripled. The incubator is different from that library growth, though. Those 35,000 episodes are mostly redistributed work. These 10 shows are new, exclusive and developed with Tubi’s money and resources, with Tubi promising the creators creative freedom over production.
What each company is really after
Tubi chief executive Anjali Sud has described YouTube as Tubi’s closest competitor, StreamTV Insider noted, while also saying Tubi is committed to long-form shows rather than short clips. An incubator full of TikTok names fits that position: it borrows social audiences without turning Tubi into another vertical-video feed.
TikTok, for its part, gets a way to keep creators inside its orbit as they move into television. “Their communities on TikTok show just how much people connect with creator-led storytelling, and this partnership gives them another way to share their work with new audiences,” said Dawn Yang, TikTok’s global head of entertainment and micro-series. TikTok has been trying this from several directions, including its own creator-led series with Hannah Stocking and Adam Rose.
Tubi is not alone in chasing creators. The Roku Channel has expanded its creator hub, and Vizio’s WatchFree+ recently added 40 creator channels. Bigger names are moving too: Dude Perfect’s partnership with Disney and Mark Rober’s SCHOOLED! on Netflix show established YouTubers getting studio deals. Tubi’s approach is aimed a level below that: creators with loyal followings who have not yet made a TV show.
What creators can learn from the first Tubi TikTok Creatorverse Incubator cohort
Look at what the Tubi TikTok Creatorverse Incubator actually picked. These are not reposted TikToks. Kiely and Tran turn horror commentary into a format that can fill an episode. Jones, Bland and Krahl already have animated characters. Cameron’s dating show takes a recurring bit and builds rules around it. The common thread is a repeatable premise that can last 20 minutes or more, not follower count alone.
Tubi also plans to promote through TikTok rather than replace it, which suggests creators are expected to bring their audiences with them. For a creator weighing a similar deal, that is worth noticing: the platform gets a show, and the creator still does much of the marketing on their own channels.
Tubi TikTok Creatorverse Incubator details not shared yet
Several things remain unannounced: the premiere date for each series, budgets, how creators are paid, whether they share in ad revenue, who owns the shows, and whether a second cohort is planned. Tubi has also not said what kind of audience numbers would count as a success for the program.
Until then, the 10 titles above are the full confirmed slate for the first Tubi TikTok Creatorverse Incubator class. We will update this guide when Tubi publishes premiere dates.
