The Creator Economy
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The Creator Economy
#fuckapple, a thread
I cofounded @fanhouseapp 8 months ago to empower creators to monetize their content. We pay creators 90% of earnings. Now, Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse from the app store unless we give them 30% of creator earnings. This is theft and exploitation.
soup girltwitter.com
head of product at Instagram and Threads on why they focus on creators over publishers
YouTube is less surprising than its peers, especially TikTok. While the latter has an almost telepathic capacity for serving you a wide variety of content it thinks you’ll like, YouTube is instead a platform designed for long-term buy-in. Creators are less likely to go viral on a one-off video on YouTube than they are on TikTok, but they’re more... See more
The YouTube New Wave — The Publish Press
Iris
newness.com
The aspect ratio of our lives has changed. By narrowing our field of view, cutting off our peripheral vision, the phone doesn’t just remove us from space and provoke a sense of claustrophobia. It isolates us.
Nicholas Carr • Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait
“Toward a phenomenology of the phone”
Barstool Sports Content Model:
- Find amazing talent
- Give them a platform
- Provide them with the infrastructure to succeed
- Align incentives so they don’t leave
This is the model for the next generation of media companies
Ari Lewis 🚀twitter.com