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How Will the Strike Impact Creators?

Episode Summary

This just in: we are Neal Mohan's (YouTube CEO) new favorite creator economy podcast! Let's keep the momentum going. Today our esteemed co-hosts reflect on their recent features on Bloomberg and Wired before going in on how creators might be impacted by the combined WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. (Hint: it means no creator's going to the Barbie premiere without losing future access to SAG.) Then, we cover TikTok's push into music via Warner Music and Elevate before exploring Karat's $70 million round and Twitter's first round of creator payouts. Be like Neal and tune in!

Episode Notes

Here's what we covered today:

• Influencers Have Their Own Guidelines to Follow for the SAG Strike | Vanity Fair
• Influencers Walk a Fine Line as Hollywood Strikes — The Information
• SAG-AFTRA Approves 39 Indie Projects to Shoot During Strike, Including Two A24 Films
• TikTok wants to Elevate up-and-coming internet music stars - Tubefilter
• Karat Financial upgrades its creator credit card business with $70 million Series B - Tubefilter
• Twitter says its first creator payouts total $5 million - Tubefilter
• Twitter tweaks its new revenue-sharing policy for creators to expand access, increase rate limits | TechCrunch