Browsing: Creator Economy

Megan Fox launched a $19.99 a month page on Subs.com, the platform built by OnlyFans co-founder Tim Stokely, and the site buckled under the traffic. The bigger story is that she is now a co-owner. Here is how Subs works, what fans actually pay and why celebrities want a piece of the platform, not just a page on it.

YouTuber Jack Doherty says he signed a deal with crypto casino Shuffle.com without reading it, and that one clause bars him from posting online. Shuffle CEO Noah Dummett says the six-month term is real and the company will not scrap it. Here is how the deal came together, and why it might also be a stunt.

Joe Rogan has renewed with Spotify in a multiyear deal the Wall Street Journal values at around $250 million. The number is not the interesting part. Spotify is paying it for a show that stays on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music, which is a complete reversal of why it bought him in the first place.

A Telegraph report says YouTubers are being paid thousands to warn their audiences about AI. The organization doing the paying published its entire playbook a month earlier: nine sponsored videos, 6.3 million views, disclosure in every description. Here is what is actually hidden, what is not, and why both sides of the AI argument are now buying airtime in other people’s videos.

Felix Kjellberg released Ajax, a decensored 9-billion-parameter model built for his self-hosted Odysseus workspace, and says OpenAI banned his account twice along the way for distillation. Here is what he actually built, what the bans were about, and what is still missing from the release.

From 2027 YouTube will let creators run up to three different cuts of the same video at once. Marques Brownlee calls it the platform’s craziest and riskiest idea yet, and his objection is not the feature. It is what happens to the comment section.

A father says his nine-year-old spent $118,000 on YouTube ads using a company credit card. The channel’s public data shows exactly what six figures of promotion buys, and what it cannot buy at any price.

LIV Golf’s Chapter 11 filing names YouTuber Rick Shiels among its thirty largest unsecured creditors, owed roughly $1.4 million. The number is eye-catching. Where he sits in the queue is the part every creator taking brand money should read twice.

YouTube has relaxed its advertiser friendly rules for violent gameplay ahead of GTA 6, splitting every video into three timing zones that decide whether it earns full ad revenue, limited ads or nothing.

268,000 people registered to solve MrBeast’s $1,000,000 Super Bowl puzzle. A software developer from Atlanta got there first. Here is how all 12 clues in the ad actually worked.