Creator Economy

Royal's Justin Blau and Paradigm's Fred Ehrsam on how selling royalties directly to fans could end predatory record deals

Understanding this new — and often confusing — asset class.

You can't decentralize the web. You can only kill old winners and pick new ones. Here's how.

In the rush to build frictionless payment features, the actual sales pitch—the "here's why you should pay"—is too often an afterthought.

When NFTs are becoming much more than digital assets on the blockchain.

A small portion of creators still reaps the most revenue for their work across multiple platforms.

Explore communities that share your passion with millions of people.

Technology enables us to make a living by being ourselves. But it also incentivizes us to become whatever the market needs us to be.

To the naked eye, it looks like media companies’ dalliances with NFTs have come to an end.

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The largest tools for Creators: marketers, podcasters, youtubers, content writers, bloggers and many other Creators.

Grant for the Web is a $100M fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in web monetization.

Au-delà de l'aspect moral, la rétribution des contributeurs semble être un passage obligé pour les plateformes en phase de croissance.

This essay is the second in a Gnosis Guild series by @keikreutler bridging cryptonetworks, web3, and gaming.

If NFTs are the future of art, so far they only reflect (and crystallize) the problems of the past.

The a16z NFT Canon is a curated list of readings and resources on all things NFTs, organized from the big picture, what NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are and why they matter... to how to mint, collect, and do more with them -- including how they play into various applications such as art, music, gaming, social tokens, more.

With Koji, Dmitry Shapiro wants to build content monetization tools for the open web.

There are better ways to grow an audience on Youtube than waiting for videos to "go viral." Here's how you can promote your YouTube videos and grow your subscribers, without spending a fortune on ads.

If NFTs are the future of art, so far they only reflect (and crystallize) the problems of the past.

A curated list of creator tools. The backbone of the creator economy. Find all tools that accelerate makers these days to create outstanding content.

The all-in-one way to earn, share your best content, and connect with your fans

When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again.

Enjin has been working to make NFTs frictionless. They started with a new Ethereum token standard. Now, they’re building a blockchain specifically for NFTs, ushering in the next chapter for the space.

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) enable a new model for bringing new characters into the world.

The creator economy has seen a record $1.3B in funding in 2021 alone. Dig into how startups are building across the value chain, top investors in the space, and what's next for the industry.

On May 27th, I launched a campaign to fund the daily entertainment newsletter Dirt using NFTs. In short, all the NFTs and editions have sold out, raising 12.23 ETH, or a bit over $30,000. (131 NFTs in total.)

Discover 125+ companies innovating across the creator value chain, from content creation tools to administrative platforms.

Announcing Passport, the new infrastructure supporting Stratechery.

Your job must be performed in person? That will not save you from online competition. New data on the Long Tail offers some evidence.