11 stories tagged creator-economy, newest first.
51 points by theanonymousone | 53 comments
Barchart news article reporting MrBeast told Mark Cuban he spends millions reverse engineering each platform's algorithms to keep generating video ideas.
978 points by pier25 | 807 comments
MacRumors article reporting Apple set a November 1, 2026 deadline for Patreon creators to move to App Store in-app purchases, giving Apple up to a 30% cut.
357 points by bookofjoe | 258 comments
Guardian article reporting that social media influencers and OnlyFans models increasingly apply for the US O-1 'extraordinary ability' visa using follower counts.
445 points by philipjoubert | 192 comments
GitHub repository for antiwork/gumroad, the newly published source code of the Gumroad creator commerce platform.
416 points by stafford_beer | 310 comments
Kevin Munger's Substack essay examining MrBeast and YouTube creator culture, from the author of The YouTube Apparatus.
342 points by impish9208 | 505 comments
Wired article reporting that OnlyFans creators are replacing human chatters with AI impersonators to answer fan direct messages.
416 points by mef | 739 comments
Matthew Ball essay from September 2024 analyzing the business economics, revenue, and profitability of OnlyFans.
1059 points by miiiiiike | 909 comments
Patreon news post explaining how Apple's App Store in-app purchase requirements and fees will affect creators and fans using Patreon's iOS app.
335 points by mhb | 642 comments
New York Times article on YouTube suspending Russell Brand's ability to earn ad revenue on the platform; the page loaded as a captcha check.
1885 points by jjcm | 569 comments
Landing page for Nonio, a Reddit-like platform where a monthly subscription is split evenly among the content creators a user upvotes.
412 points by gumby | 422 comments
Financial Times opinion article titled "YouTube, the jewel of the internet," shown behind a subscription paywall.