Manifest Financial Expands From Managing Money To Making It With Nucreator Deal

Manifest Financial’s September 2025 acquisition of AI startup Nucreator signals a new phase in how fintech...

Influencer Marketing Platform The Cirqle Secures Direct Integration With Meta’s Creator Marketplaces

The Cirqle, an influencer marketing platform, launched the first direct integration with Meta‘s Facebook and Instagram...

Billo Bets On Systemization To Turn Creator Videos Into Scalable Ad Performance

Billo, a Lithuania-based startup once known for its simple user-generated content (UGC) marketplace, is now positioning...

Podstock Signs Ballen Studios, Extends Dear Media Partnership To Unify Cross-Platform Podcast Analytics

Podcast analytics provider Podstock has announced a new partnership with Ballen Studios and a three-year contract...

Faved’s Media-Buying Play For Creator Brand Deals

Stephen Titus is the co-founder of Faved, a London-based media buying platform built to connect vetted...

Quill’s Podcast Analytics Platform CoHost Launches Podcast Growth Tracking Metric

Quill-owned podcast analytics and hosting platform CoHost launched its New Listener Metric, designed to help podcasters...

How Symone Opara’s LUC.cooking Is Building A Royalty Economy For Food Creators

When was the last time you saw a recipe treated like a song – tracked, credited,...

Apple Reportedly Developing ‘Creator Studio’ Bundle For Pro Apps, iOS 26.2 Code Suggests

Apple appears to be preparing a new offering called “Apple Creator Studio,” according to code references...

PodEngine, Interview Valet Introduce Podcast Authority Score To Bring Clarity To Audience Metrics

PodEngine, a Cardiff-based podcast intelligence platform founded by Joe Tannorella, has partnered with Interview Valet, a...

How Troodie Connects Creators, Restaurants, And Diners Through Social Dining

Taylor A. Davis describes Troodie as “a social dining ecosystem where everybody wins.” The Charlotte-based founder...

Dash Social Debuts New Metric For Measuring Brand Social Media Impact

Dash Social introduces a new proprietary metric, Total Social Impact (TSI), that consolidates fragmented social media...

From Hollywood To ‘Meaning Economy’: Matt Zien Shares Vision For AI-Powered Storytelling

For more than a decade, producer Matt Zien helped shape the worlds of television and documentary...

Streams Charts, StreamerDap Partner To Offer Free Analytics To Twitch Streamers In 2026 Deal

Streams Charts and StreamerDap are joining forces to provide Twitch streamers with free access to analytics...

How A Finnish Entrepreneur Built A Cloud Platform For Twitch’s Dual Format Streaming

When Twitch unveiled its Dual Format feature, allowing creators to stream simultaneously in horizontal and vertical...

Built By Creators, Powered By Tech: How Motion Society (Moso) Built The Invisible Engine Behind Multi-Platform Success

At Mipcom 2025 in Cannes, Jean-Loup Fraudin and Thomas Subra of Motion Society (Moso) saw something...

Streams Charts Unveils Twitch Viewer Demographics Tool For Brands And Creators

Streams Charts has released Twitch audience demographics data for its PRO subscribers, expanding beyond geographic insights...

Arielle Nissenblatt On Curating Podcasts And Expanding The Creator Economy

Arielle Nissenblatt is reshaping how listeners find podcasts and how creators connect with their audiences. As...

Whatnot Raises $225 Million As Investors Bet On Live Shopping

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot secured $225 million in Series F funding, doubling its valuation to $11.5...

Creator Television Expands Digital Reach With New On-Demand Content On Plex And Xumo Play

Creator Television, the creator-led streaming network owned by ad-tech company Sabio Holdings, launched its ad-supported video-on-demand...

Matriarch Digital Media: A Business Model For Women’s Economic Influence

Matriarch Digital Media, founded in 2016 by Twila Dang (now CEO), produces women-focused content through podcasts,...

From BTS To Rhett & Link: How Streaming Firm Kiswe Fuels The Rise Of D2C Entertainment

When K-pop band BTS streamed a record-setting live concert to hundreds of thousands of paying fans...

New York Times Launches TikTok-Style Video Feed To Centralize Multi-Format Journalism

The New York Times introduced a new “Watch” tab in its primary mobile application this week,...

ShopMy Secures $70M Funding At $1.5B Valuation, Pioneering Curator-Driven Commerce Platform

ShopMy raises $70 million in a funding round led by Avenir, with participation from Bain Capital...

Oxford Road Unveils New ROI-Based Podcast Rankings, Critical Role Claims Top Spot

Oxford Road launched a new podcast ranking system that measures advertising effectiveness through actual sales results,...

CreatorIQ’s New SafeIQ Tool Makes Creator Marketing Safer For Brands

CreatorIQ introduced SafeIQ on October 21, positioning it as the first enterprise-grade, AI-native brand safety infrastructure...