Jack Conte hates the word "influencers." As the CEO of Patreon, he would rather people call artists "creators" if what they do is build loyal fanbases willing to pay for what they do online. While platforms like TikTok encourage their power users to sell doodads on the TikTok Shop, Patreon wants people to buy into the platform's stars. To pay a few bucks a month to read what they write or listen to what they have to say.
Forget everything you thought you knew about making money as a DJ. The old playbook - club gigs, wedding bookings, and selling CDs at shows - is about as relevant as a flip phone at a Tesla convention. Jean-Claude Bastos, who's successfully navigated this economic earthquake, puts it bluntly: "If you're still thinking like a traditional DJ, you're already extinct." His journey through both old-school and new-school monetization reveals a landscape where creativity and business savvy matter more than ever.
We want to reach 200 million paying customers. How can you use AI to improve user engagement by providing AI-powered products? How can you use [AI to] help newsroom and businesses to improve their operations? And then at the same time, how can you use AI to optimize subscription revenue and advertisement revenue? That's the core mission of [chief] AI officer,' Han said.
Invites to Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser, Comet, are one of the web's hottest commodities these days. The new product was made available first to the AI firm's $200-per-month Max subscribers and a small group of invitees. But now there's a new way to jump ahead on the waitlist. On Wednesday, PayPal announced it's giving its customers, including PayPal and Venmo users, early access to Comet as well as a free year's subscription to Perplexity Pro, normally $200 per year.
She'll succeed Peter Vandermeersch, who has been Irish CEO since 2022 and before that had served as Publisher of the Antwerp-based group's Irish titles since the takeover of the former Independent News & Media plc in 2019. The news was announced to staff on Wednesday morning. Peter Vandermeersch is moving to take on a new group-wide role as Mediahuis Fellow 'Journalism and Society'.
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