Essentially, creators have to balance the distribution potential of certain platforms with the risk of becoming dependent on them, and monetize by either earning a little off of each fan from mainstream content for a big audience or earning a lot off of deeper connections to a smaller set of fans through niche content.

Bring Your Own Audience (BYOA) platforms focus on enabling value generation for creators who lead an existing fan base there.  BYOA’s core value is not top of funnel discovery, there is no algorithm creators have to dance around to get eyeballs. With BYOA, the creator’s job is to drive traffic to the BYOA platform, and the platform’s job is to... See more

“(Platforms) need to either offer some way to monetize that content on-platform, or… they'll become just a promotional hub, where people essentially advertise the content that they're monetizing on other platforms” - Josh Constine