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fromVogue
1 day agoWhy Are So Many Influencers Speaking at Harvard Business School?
"For the creator, it signals legitimacy. For the institution, it signals that they're engaged with where attention and influencers actually live today," says Shana Davis, founder of influencer marketing agency Ponte Firm.
Social media marketing
fromnews.bitcoin.com
3 days agoSpace and Time Launches Dreamspace Ai App Builder to Simplify Onchain Development
Dreamspace operates on a simple premise: Users provide a text description of their desired application, and the platform's AI engine handles the rest, including automatically generated smart contract logic ready for deployment.
Venture
Media industry
fromVariety
1 week agoAriana Madix, Warner Records' Dalia Ganz, LA28 CMO Alex Merchan, Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire and Patrick Ta Join Variety's Entertainment Marketing Summit
The 2026 Entertainment Marketing Summit will feature prominent speakers discussing brand building, marketing strategies, and the impact of technology on entertainment.
fromMashable
3 weeks agoRemi Cruz Parsons has been online for over a decade. Here's what she's learned.
With her new cookbook, Let's Get Cooking: Everyday Meals, Tipsy Favorites and Comfort Food Cravings, the 31-year-old creator is bringing one of the most beloved parts of her content into readers' homes. Filled with comfort food, Korean recipes inspired by her family, easy weeknight dinners, and dishes longtime viewers will instantly recognize from her vlogs, the book feels like a natural extension of the world she has built online.
Digital life
#influencer-marketing
Deliverability
fromForbes
4 weeks agoWhy Your Cold Pitch Emails Aren't Getting You Brand Deals
Cold pitch emails are becoming less effective for creators due to overwhelming volume and lack of personalization.
Social media marketing
fromDigiday
1 month agoIn graphic detail: Middle-tier creators are fueling the next phase of the creator economy
A growing middle tier of creators is building sustainable businesses through newsletters, courses, digital products, and sponsorships, with brands increasingly targeting nano and micro-creators over macro influencers.
Social media marketing
fromDigiday
1 month agoIn graphic detail: Middle-tier creators are fueling the next phase of the creator economy
A growing middle tier of creators is building sustainable businesses through newsletters, courses, digital products, and sponsorships, with brands increasingly targeting nano and micro-creators over macro influencers.
Online Community Development
fromThe Globe and Mail
4 weeks agoCuentas, Inc. Launches World Mobile Media Group, a Next-Generation Decentralized Media Platform Integrating Content, Connectivity, and Creator Ownership
WMMG launches a decentralized media platform that empowers creators and enhances audience engagement through direct monetization and community involvement.
Television
fromInterview Magazine
1 month agoThese Creators Are Getting Rich Off Reaction Content While We Watch
Reaction videos have evolved from a niche curiosity into a massive YouTube phenomenon, with top channels accumulating hundreds of millions of views and attracting attention from major artists.
fromGamesBeat
1 month agoPop.Store launches agentic AI commerce platform for creators
Unlike AI tools that generate content or automate replies in isolation, Echo-Me operates across the entire creator business. It identifies revenue opportunities, engages fans in the creator's own voice, generates visual and text content, and executes monetization autonomously.
Marketing tech
Intellectual property law
fromTechCrunch
1 month agoPatreon CEO calls AI companies' fair use argument 'bogus,' says creators should be paid | TechCrunch
AI companies should compensate creators for training data, as their 'fair use' claims are contradicted by multi-million dollar deals they make with major publishers and rights holders.
Social media marketing
fromwww.cnbc.com
1 month agoMeta will pay Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators with big followings to post on Facebook
Meta launched Creator Fast Track program offering guaranteed monthly payments ($1,000-$3,000) and boosted reach to attract established creators from TikTok and YouTube to Facebook.
Social media marketing
fromTechCrunch
1 month agoFacebook launches a new monetization program to attract popular creators from TikTok, YouTube | TechCrunch
Facebook launched Creator Fast Track to attract established creators from other platforms with guaranteed monthly pay and increased content reach for three months.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month agoPicsart now allows creators to 'hire' AI assistants through agent marketplace | TechCrunch
Picsart launches an AI agent marketplace enabling creators to delegate design tasks like resizing, remixing, and product photo editing through specialized AI assistants.
Social media marketing
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoLoose rules, big money: Why Clavicular and other streamers are flocking to Kick
Kick has become a lucrative alternative platform for creators banned or rejected by mainstream brands, offering higher payouts and lighter content moderation than competitors like Twitch.
Social media marketing
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoNigeria powers Africa's $3.1B creator economy - but platform economics ensure Silicon Valley captures the value - Silicon Canals
Nigeria's creator economy produces world-class content but most creators earn modest incomes due to structural inequalities in how global platforms distribute value and revenue.
Marketing
fromDigiday
1 month agoA new studio is betting Hollywood talent and first-party data will reshape creator monetization
Linden Lane Films combines Hollywood production with top creators and proprietary data technology to capture brand advertising budgets traditionally held by premium publishers and platforms.
Social media marketing
fromForbes
1 month agoOscars 2026: Why The Best Creators Build Around Pop Culture
Successful creators now build content around cultural moments and events rather than staying confined to single niches, as algorithm saturation makes niche-focused content interchangeable and undiscoverable.
Marketing
fromForbes
1 month agoInfluencers Are Leaving The Feed And Entering The Real World
Influencer marketing is evolving from one-off social media posts to integrated brand partnerships where creators function as core media infrastructure helping design campaigns across multiple platforms and physical spaces.
Marketing tech
fromEMARKETER
1 month agoFor creators, the biggest threat to business growth isn't burnout
Platform algorithm changes represent the top barrier to creator business growth at 18%, followed closely by lack of consistent brand deals at 17%, according to a July 2025 CreatorIQ survey of 300 creators across eight countries.
E-Commerce
fromRetail Brew
1 month ago'People overthink what live shopping is': TalkShopLive CEO
Live shopping remains nascent in the US but shows significant growth potential, with TalkShopLive positioning itself as a unified platform enabling creators to stream shoppable content across multiple channels simultaneously rather than choosing between fragmented platforms.
fromDeadline
1 month agoSway Social Acquired By Propagate Content (EXCLUSIVE)
Digital creators have fundamentally transformed the media landscape and how audiences consume content. Callen and the Sway Social team have built a creator-first agency with a proven approach to affiliate strategy and brand partnership management that delivers real, measurable results. We're thrilled to welcome them into Propagate's growing list of creator and talent management firms.
Digital life
NYC startup
fromDigiday
1 month agoHow medical creator Nick Norwitz grew his Substack paid subscribers from 900 to 5,200 within 8 months
Medical school graduate Nick Norwitz scaled his creator business to 870,000 YouTube subscribers and 5,200 paying Substack members through professional content strategy and consistent publishing.
Media industry
fromIndieWire
1 month agoIf You've Been Waiting for Normal in Hollywood, Here It Is
YouTube surpassed Disney as the world's largest media company while accomplished independent producers like Ted Hope struggle to find industry support, signaling a fundamental shift in entertainment's structure and sustainability.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
1 month agoWith Newpress, Iz and Johnny Harris incubate video journalism for the creator era
Johnny and Iz Harris launched Newpress, a production company supporting creator-journalists by providing editorial guidance, business infrastructure, and IP ownership while creators focus on content production.
Intellectual property law
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoPatreon's CEO says AI will be a 'bloodbath for the world's creative people' unless tech companies pay up
Patreon CEO Jack Conte argues that AI companies should compensate independent creators whose content is used to train AI models, as no licensing infrastructure currently exists for individual creators unlike traditional media.
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