Inside the Creator Economy Podcast – with Cassie Roma and Jim Louderback
- How James Bond Helped me Make Sense of the Facebook (and Twitch and TikTok) "problems" October 18, 2021Shaken Not Stirred Coinkydink or Not? All of Facebook's properties go down due to networking "configuration changes". Then TikTok goes out for a few hours. Shortly after, a massive Twitch hack due to a "server configuration change" releases just about everything of note from the streamer including source code, earnings for top streamers and much […]
- LinkedIn Pays Creators… sort of - The LatAm Creator Economy - Social Tokens October 11, 2021Linkedin Pays Creators - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedins-latest-investment-creators-andrei-santalo/ LatAm Creator Economy is super strong but needs more monetization - https://future.a16z.com/latin-america-creator-economy/ The Future of Social Tokens and the creator economy - https://digitalnative.substack.com/p/social-tokens-and-creator-centric Good News from the Pandemic - https://digiday.com/media/football-has-lost-its-soul-how-copa90-is-repositioning-itself-around-the-creator-economy/ Roblox rolls out age verification system - Roblox will start verifying the age of teenage players - The Verge Creator […]
- Episode 16 - The Facebook Files, NFTs for sponsorships, The Kids Are Not Alright September 27, 2021Podcaster Shaan Puri is launching an experimental 1 of 1 NFT/// This is an experimental 1 of 1 NFT. This token gives the holder the right to 5 minutes of airtime on the My First Million Podcast. THE FACEBOOK FILES - Wall Street Journal Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled […]
- Crypto Punks Go Hollywood September 15, 2021The CryptoPunks are going Hollywood. - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/uta-cryptopunks-nft-film-tv-vieo-games-1235005392/ The red-hot NFT crypto-art project from Larva Labs has signed with United Talent Agency for representation across film, TV, video games, publishing, and licensing. UTA will also represent Meebits and Autoglyphs, two other crypto-art projects created by Larva Labs. The Power of Protest - Can Twitch Streamers Taking […]
- A Mercenary, a Barbarian and a Thumbnail walk into a Room…. August 30, 2021YouTube Killing Off the Thumbnail: If you’re a YouTuber, you’ve likely stressed over the perfect thumbnail for your video. Consultants, A/B testing tools, and even sessions at VidCon have helped countless creators optimize for clickability. But it looks like the thumbnail is being upstaged –– at least in search –– by auto-generated chapters and time-stamped […]
- Creator Products Take Center Stage at Discord, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube August 20, 2021As creator economy startups multiply like rabbits, the bigger platforms are getting into the game by upping their product chops. First up, LinkedIn. I love distributing this newsletter there, but their creator-first products are lame. Clearly LinkedIn knows that as well, since it just bought tutorial video app Jumprope and plans to convert CEO Jake […]
- Episode 12 - Streaming and VRing all day and all night! August 10, 2021Facebook will spend a lot on VR and AR - https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2021/07/28/facebook-metaverse/?sh=4851ce1318bc Livestreaming takes off - is it QVC all over again - Livestream shopping on social media shows potential in the US — Quartz (qz.com) Identity and anonymity - good or bad? - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/style/anonymity-pseudonymity-online-identity.html NEWS HITS: TikTok becoming LinkedIn, Twitter Vocal Effects, Pinterst leaning into […]
- Episode 11 - Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and more July 31, 2021Is Instagram Censoring us? - https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrajNYlL3f/?utm_medium=copy_link One YouTube subscriber = 25 TikTok subscribers according to new financial services firm YouTube releases Tip Jar - or did they update one from 7 years ago? YouTube Intros Super Thanks, Tip-Jar Feature for Creator Channels - Variety Facebook is finally a media company - https://www.theverge.com/21273768/section-230-explained-internet-speech-law-definition-guide-free-moderation https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/20/facebook-onboards-another-31-newsletter-writers-on-bulletin/ Is music […]
- Episode 10 - Paying Creators and why YouTube Still Leads by a "Country Mile" July 27, 2021Why Can’t Other Platforms Pay Creators Like YouTube? VidCon founder Hank Green’s latest rant on TikTok shows – yet again – that YouTube dominates in compensating creators. In 2020 Big Red paid out about 50% of its $19 Billion in revenue to creators. Hank also notes that even though TikTok trumpets its billion-dollar creator largesse, […]
- Episode 9 - TikTok Jump, Unpacking Avatars and the Changing Power Equation in Hollywood July 1, 2021TIKTOK's NEW JUMP FEATURE Rebuilds the Internet Inside TikTok: Now developers can connect third party tools like messaging apps, shopping, cooking, news sites (and others) directly into TikTok. This means you could watch a video, Whatsapp your friends about it, share it on Discord, book a trip to where the video was produced, view the […]