Creator Economy

220+ platforms that can help you turn your hobby into a paying profession

The internet gives more people an opportunity to win. But it forces everyone to play the game.

What happens when a product company tries to run a platform?

A massive realignment of human capital is coming for the media industry.

a.k.a Build the Shopify for NFTs, not another Amazon

Immer mehr Menschen können auf immer mehr verschiedene Arten online Geld verdienen. Was mit Influencern und Werbung anfing, setzt sich jetzt wirtschaftlich nachhaltig in alle großen und kleinen Nischen fort. Man muss die Begrifflichkeiten nicht mögen, auch weil sie unötig Unvereinbares verquicken,

Wie Creator Geld verdienen können (Part 2) | TikTok: Was über Sicherheit, Datenschutz und Zensur bekannt ist | Studie zu Nachrichtenkompetenz

What if I told you that a podcast brings in $2–4M in annual revenue on Patreon? Whether you call it the “passion economy” or the “creator economy,” something…

NFTs machen weiter Schlagzeilen. Beeples „Everydays: The First 5000 Days“ wurde auf Christie’s für 69 Millionen $ versteigert. (The Verge) Das ist wirklich sehr überraschend viel Geld. Aber: Beeple ist ein bekannter zeitgenössischer Künstler. Er kann immer wieder weitere Kunstwerke als NFTs ver

How the market addresses these four issues will determine whether NFTs become part of generational progress, or sink into familiar contours.

Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it?

Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: In retrospect, I don’t think I had much of a strategy in place when I launched the paid version of my newsletter about a year ago. Sure, I’ve been studying newsletter subscription strategies for years, so I didn’t go into the project completely blind, but I also didn’t sit down to form a business plan that gamed out all the various aspects of content creation, promotion, and monetization that a paid newsletter requires. Instead, my entrance into the paid newsletter space was ...

Ten policies platforms like YouTube and TikTok can adopt to spread the wealth.

Stir builds tools for creators and their collaborators and empowers them to run great businesses.

I spent the past couple of months going down the Creator Economy rabbit hole. Here is a map of 150+ companies I found.