Welcome to the first weekly issue of the CreatorScape - a roundup of the products, companies and people behind them in the creator economy. If you have a hot tip for us, please let us know at creatorscape@influence.co.
Note: this first issue stretches over a few weeks as we have been working on the format. Going forward we’ll constrain it pretty much to current week’s news.
NEW COMPANIES
Mona - Digital Goods, Subscriptions - @romylynch - Product Hunt
Creators have forced the era of “simpler than Shopify” on us. Mona is a lovely simplified Shopify for creators focused on digital goods and subscriptions.
Soundwise - Digital Goods, Subscriptions - @RealNatascheChe - Product Hunt
Audible for creators and their fans without Amazon in the middle.
Swapstack - Newsletters - @schonbergerjake - Business Insider
Sell advertising space in your newsletter while destroying the hopes and dreams of the Substack founders for an engagement-bait-free world.
Demi - Community - @IanRichardMoore - Business Insider
Have you ever had the excitement of a chef come to your table? Now, Demi captures this feeling with a product designed for chefs and foodies to have direct contact through paid communities.
PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Every - Newsletters - @nbashaw - Graduated from Substack 🎉🎉🎉 - Axios
The grand experiment of bundling Substacks grows up and leaves the nest.
Combo - @joincombo - Dropped a tool to help turn Twitch into TikToks
Grow your Twitch channel by using a platform (TikTok) that’s actually designed to help you grow.
Stir - @stir - Dropped a tool to let you describe the creator collabs you want
Share your creator collab fantasies in the hopes that someone gets inspired (or goaded) enough to actually make it happen.
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Revue - Newsletters - @mdekuijper - Bought by Twitter - Twitter blog
Revue makes it easy for writers and publishers to send editorial newsletters - and get paid.
Patreon - Subscriptions - @jackconte - Contemplates IPO - The Information [paywall]
Will the creator economy get the legitimizing billion dollar IPO it needs to open the floodgates of investor money?
Clubhouse - Audio - @rohanseth - Financing at a billion dollar valuation - Business Insider
It’s official, the time to billions (TTB) in valuation measuring stick has been reduced to under a year.
WTF?
BlueCheckHomes - Get a verified blue badge on your home if you’re an influencer
Digital performance art that we wish was real-world performance art
Facebook - Plans to launch a subscription newsletter product - New York Times
Twitter and Facebook creeping in Substack backyard apparently ruffled some feathers
@nateliason - is starting a town for Creators
It feels like @nateliason and the BlueCheckHome guys need a warm intro stat.
If you have any hot tips or hot takes on anything that happened recently in the CreatorScape please drop as a note at creatorscape@influence.co.
If you’d like to learn more about the creator economy, please check out our market landscape which is the inspiration for this newsletter. We call it the CreatorScape and you can find it here and can read an overview of how we put it together here.
keep going!! great first one!