Latest Oreogate UpdateTo read the first post I did on Oreogate and to learn how it all started, check out that blog post, here. I’ve been watching Oreogate for weeks now, and I have to admit, this story did not go where I thought it would. When I first wroteContinue Reading
For a long time, becoming a successful creator had a pretty obvious path. Build an audience, grow your follower count, get brand deals, make sponsored content and hopefully make enough money doing it that you could call content creation your actual job. But lately, I’m noticing something different happening acrossContinue Reading
Welcome to October! And another month of social media platforms releasing approximately 7,492 updates that we are apparently all supposed to keep track of while also running businesses, creating content and remembering to move the laundry to the dryer. lol The good news is that you don’t actually need toContinue Reading
Apparently, creators have found another way to make money online, and it’s a new one that I hadn’t really thought about. Some everyday TikTok creators are making hundreds and even thousands of dollars creating videos for brands that don’t necessarily look like advertisements. They might not even post them toContinue Reading
Photo by Claire Fridkin via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped from the original. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about how creators make money. Brand deals, affiliate links, platform revenue, products, services and all the other ways someone can turn an audience into an actual business.Continue Reading
Photo by Dylan Freedom on Unsplash There are certain sentences I never expect to type when I sit down to write about the creator economy. An umpire had to stop a US Open match because people were making content with ring lights is definitely one of them. 😂 During NaomiContinue Reading
Every once in a while, a creator story comes across my scroll that makes me think, Yep. We need to talk about this one. And this time, it happened right here in Arizona. Social media creator Heston James Cobb, known online as Heston James, pleaded guilty on August 28 toContinue Reading