Commentary

Top 10 Highest Revenue TikTok Shops In August 2026

Shark Home jumps from No. 10 to No. 2 on TikTok Shop’s August revenue ranking, an...

Tech

Empyre Founder Jake Cass Wants to Turn Fan Clipping Into a Licensed Revenue Stream for Creators

Jake Cass founded Empyre to put a license agreement between creator content and the fans who...

Agency

How Pubity Group Turned Eight Years of Social Publishing Into a Global Creative Business

Kit Chilvers and Iyrah Williams, co-founders of Pubity Group, spent years posting to Instagram before formalizing...

Agency

GateMaker Put Creators at the Center of Public Relations, Now Residence Is Scaling the Model

The agency Ashton Wall and her co-founder, Amelia Soohoo, needed at a cosmetics brand they worked...

Platform

Roblox Previews 10 Third-Party Studio Games for Fall, From Esports Shooters to AAA-Style Racing

Roblox is bringing 10 new games from independent and incubator-backed studios to the platform this fall,...

Brand

Streamer TenZ to Host Coinbase’s New ‘VALORANT’ Tournament for a Bitcoin Grand Prize

“VALORANT” streamer TenZ will host Coinbase One Shot, a new 1v1 tournament running best-of-one matches across...

Agency

The Digital Dept. Turns Its BRANDEdit Showroom Into a Fashion Week Café for 150 Creators

The Digital Dept., the Influencer Marketing subsidiary of Dolphin Entertainment, will stage its BRANDEdit gifting suite...

Talent Collectives

Podcast Network Goalhanger Sells 26,000 Tickets at Inaugural London Festival

UK independent podcast producer Goalhanger sold 26,000 tickets across 22 shows for the inaugural “The Rest...

Tech

Swedish Creator Marketing Platform Fluencify Raises $4.3M to Automate Campaign Management

Stockholm-based creator marketing platform Fluencify has raised an oversubscribed $4.3 million pre-seed round led by byFounders, with...

Tech

Indian Ad-Tech Group Wondrlab Launches Seven-Agent AI System to Run Influencer Campaigns

Mumbai-based marketing technology company Wondrlab has launched WondrAgents, a seven-agent artificial intelligence system designed to run...

Influencer

Piers Morgan Launches Weekly Soccer Show as His ‘Uncensored’ YouTube Slate Keeps Growing

Piers Morgan is turning his World Cup coverage into a permanent fixture on his YouTube network,...

Influencer

Podcaster Amanda Hirsch Apologizes for Polymarket Ad Tied to Lindsay Clancy Mistrial

Amanda Hirsch, host of the podcast “Not Skinny But Not Fat” and Hulu’s “Get Real,” apologized...

Platform

Swoveralls, DudeRobe Spent More Than $2 for Every $1 in TikTok Shop GMV During Four-Month Affiliate Push

Swoveralls and DudeRobe spent more than $2 to generate every $1 of TikTok Shop gross merchandise...

Influencer

Streamer N3on Described His 24/7 AI Stream as ‘Innovative,’ Then Said ‘It’s Not AI’ 

Kick streamer N3on pushed back on accusations that he “sold out” after announcing an always-on AI...

Commentary

Creator Economy Job Radar – September 8, 2026 – Nintendo, SKIMS, Substack, and More

Creator Economy and Influencer Marketing hiring for the second week of September 2026 spans video game...

Platform

Threads Rebuilds Creator Insights Dashboard With Plain-Language Performance Summaries

Threads has rolled out a redesigned insights experience for creators, adding plain-language summaries and new performance...

Commentary

The 10 Fastest-Growing U.S. Instagram Accounts of August 2026

Marvel’s D23 publicity cycle was the dominant verified theme among August 2026’s fastest-growing U.S. Instagram accounts,...

Influencer

How a Former CNBC Journalist Is Building a Creator Brand Around the Global Migration of Americans

Helen Zhao left CNBC after five years, believing she would return. The year and a half...

Technology

Deji Oduwole Built Oya Around the Operational Work That Starts After Brands Choose Creators 

Creator marketing software has gotten good at helping brands find creators. The harder problem begins after...

Tech

From Manual Campaigns to Creator Infrastructure: How Launchpoint Is Automating the Work Behind Creator Marketing 

Running a creator marketing campaign for an enterprise brand means recruiting and DMing creators, negotiating contracts,...

Agency

Moon at Dawn Is Applying Account-Based Marketing Logic to B2B Influencer Selection

Enterprise B2B brands know exactly which job titles and companies they want to reach. However, their...

Influencer

How Laura Whaley Built a Creator Business Where Brands Partner With Her Fictional Characters 

A dating app brand reached out to Laura Whaley, and she was ready to decline. She...

Tech

Social Intelligence Platform Socialpruf Launches ‘Discovery,’ a Performance-Sorted Content Database for Creative Strategists 

For creative strategists at agencies, finding content inspiration typically means scrolling Instagram on a phone and...

Influencer

Innovative Artists Entertainment Signs Luxury Lifestyle Creator Skyelar Chase

Skyelar Chase, a digital creator known for luxury lifestyle content, has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment...

Platform

Roblox Creator Activity Generated $752M in U.S. GDP in 2025, Up 69% From 2024, Study Finds

U.S. Roblox creators generated a gross domestic product impact of $752 million in 2025, a 69%...