The startup growth didn't construct a creator utopia

Hey and welcome again to Fairness, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. That is our Wednesday present the place we area of interest right down to a single subject and dig deep.

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This time ’spherical we had Eric Silver, Head of Inventive on the podcast collective Multitude on the present to assist us type by means of:

• What the hell occurred with Spotify’s large podcast push, and its ensuing layoffs.
• Why tech platforms haven’t but discovered a approach to make artistic work profitable sufficient to engender a brand new ‘creator center class.’
• The state of the advert market, and its impacts on artistic work extra usually.

In the direction of the tip we had a second to touch upon AI, however we stored that considerably removed from our central theme.

Lengthy-time Fairness listeners will recall that we’ve lined the creator economic system a number of occasions on the present and the weblog, together with:

And should you want much more, this investor survey from 2021 on all issues creator-economy is a superb look-back in time!

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