Who will we even consider to be creators? I see two trends having an impact here. First, the line between mainstream and digital talent will fade away: not so much through creators ‘breaking through’ into the mainstream (a narrative that already feels out-of-date), as through the opposite - talent that has (or would have) found an audience through ... See more

I like to say that I write about media generally and journalism specifically because the industry is a canary in the coal mine when it comes to the impact of the Internet: text shifted from newsprint to the web seamlessly, completely upending the industry’s business model along the way.Of course I have a vested interest in this shift: for better or... See more

The social media platforms solved distribution but forgot monetization... Art got roped in with information that was ‘supposed to be free’. It was common for new distribution channels like Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, and TikTok to launch and even scale with no native monetization features. Most creators weren’t selling physical media like CDs or get... See more