{"id":7470,"date":"2022-06-12T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2024-01-10T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:30:11","slug":"creator-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/creator-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creator Economy Explained: Why You Should Get In on It and How to Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;re pretty sure that by this stage, you&#8217;ve all heard of the term &#8220;creator economy&#8221; or the &#8220;influencer economy.&#8221; For something that didn&#8217;t exist a matter of years ago, the creator economy wields massive influence over just about every aspect of our lives today. From entertainment to marketing to news, business, travel and everything in between, entire industries are being shaken up by this relatively new phenomenon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given its influence and importance (which will only grow over the next decade), you&#8217;d do well to understand what it is, why it matters and how you can get involved. So read on to learn everything you need about the creator economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is the creator economy?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The creator economy is what you&#8217;d expect \u2013 an economy that&#8217;s been created by creatives. The monetization of work by thousands of individual creators, enabled by the advent of the Internet, has led to platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/collection\/10586\/perfect-for-tiktok\/?utm_source=AL_blog&amp;utm_campaign=creator_economy&amp;utm_medium=Text_banner\&quot;" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"manual alignnone wp-image-7170\" src="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/040622-TikTik-Collection-Intext-Blog-Banner-1.jpg\&quot;" alt=\"songs for tiktok\" width=\"598\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/040622-TikTik-Collection-Intext-Blog-Banner-1.jpg 850w, https:\ \ new-blog.artlist.io\ blog\ wp-content\ uploads\ 2022\ 06\ 040622-TikTik-Collection-Intext-Blog-Banner-1-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\ \ new-blog.artlist.io\ blog\ wp-content\ uploads\ 2022\ 06\ 040622-TikTik-Collection-Intext-Blog-Banner-1-768x226.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \ /><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take one look at any of these platforms, and you&#8217;ll see how real the shift in the entertainment industry is. Audiences are no longer locked to rigid TV schedules across 10 channels. For younger generations, it&#8217;s hard to believe that was ever the case! They can now choose what, when and how to watch it, and they feel far more engaged, becoming a part of a niche community. Whatever your interest is, you will find a creator producing content based on that topic or hobby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, these creators are earning an income and a living from the videos, photos and content they put out. This is the basis of this economy, which also encompasses the companies supporting these creators through brand deals, creative tools and analytics platforms. So, if you make, benefit from or support independent content creation, you are a part of the creator economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roughly speaking, then, there are 3 main components to this economy:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Creators<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 The creatives who build an independent business around a specific goal, skill or expertise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Digital platforms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 The places on the Internet that host these creatives and their work, giving them an opportunity to grow their communities and business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The audience<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 the people that follow the creatives on these platforms, buy their content, pay for their services and merchandise and become part of the online community 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As we alluded to above, it&#8217;s all down to the Internet. Of course, throughout history, there have always been creatives. Authors such as Tolkien and playwrights such as Shakespeare. But the thing is, the only reason we know these household names is because they were the very best of the best. In past decades and centuries, only the very top could make it as a creative because the demand was relatively low, and the gatekeepers decided precisely who would make the cut. There were undoubtedly thousands of brilliant, talented creators in all sorts of professions, but they were never able to find an audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Facebook and YouTube<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then the Internet happened. Although it took a while to become established, in the mid-2000s, we began to see the birth of the modern-day Internet with the founding of sites such as Facebook (2004) and YouTube (2005). As Facebook pioneered social media, YouTube made it easy for literally <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anyone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a computer and internet connection to start a channel and start sharing videos of\u2026well, whatever they wanted!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The iPhone<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7473\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7473 size-large\" src="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1280px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-1-1024x682.jpg\&quot;" alt=\"steve jobs annoucing the iphone is the beginning of the creator economy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1280px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\ \ new-blog.artlist.io\ blog\ wp-content\ uploads\ 2022\ 06\ 1280px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\ \ new-blog.artlist.io\ blog\ wp-content\ uploads\ 2022\ 06\ 1280px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\ \ new-blog.artlist.io\ blog\ wp-content\ uploads\ 2022\ 06\ 1280px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \ /><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Matt_Yohe\&quot;" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Yohe<\/a> at <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\&quot;" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">en.wikipedia<\/a>, <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\&quot;" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, in 2007, Steve Jobs took to the stage in an iconic moment, announcing the very first iPhone. It was the perfect timing, and since that moment, we haven&#8217;t looked back. The combination of smartphones and the Internet changed how we consume entertainment. Almost overnight, we shifted from gathering around the family TV watching pre-scheduled shows (that we probably weren&#8217;t all that interested in) to being able to watch whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naturally, demand for content skyrocketed. We could watch things 24\/7 wherever we were, and we wanted <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Independent creators rushed to fill that gap, fed by a fast-evolving tech industry that gave them better tools for a fairer price. Suddenly, making good videos was accessible to and possible for everyone. You could literally just <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-start-a-vlog\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">start vlogging<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in your bedroom. The creator economy was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The creator economy today<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what&#8217;s the creator economy market size today? In a word, huge. With magazines like Rolling Stone publishing a &#8220;creators issue&#8221; and stars like Emma Chamberlain interviewing celebrities for Vogue on the red carpet at the MET Gala, it&#8217;s safe to say that the creator economy is now the mainstream entertainment industry. Independent creatives and influences have taken over, and they&#8217;re going nowhere. The <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/importance-of-video-content\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">importance of video content<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is evident for all to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Covid effect<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s worth remembering that the pandemic has certainly added some fuel to the fire here. With the whole world locked down and indoors for months on end, we saw a massive increase in the number of people watching online content (most noticeably <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/tiktok-content\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TikTok content<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), helping the industry flourish and cement the position it finds itself in today. Coupled with this is the ever-evolving technology that allows us all to create better content. You can now do practically everything with a flagship smartphone, from s<\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-create-better-videos-with-your-smartphone\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hooting with your phone camera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/production-management-software\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">production management<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/mobile-editing\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mobile editing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, distribution and community management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With over 50 million people now involved in this influencer economy, including editors, vloggers, videographers, artists, photographers, writers, coders, marketers, producers and managers, this rapid growth is set to continue throughout the next decade and further.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The future of the creator economy<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what does the future of all this look like? One thing is for sure \u2013 the creator economy market size will continue to grow. A key trait of the industry is that it never stands still. It keeps evolving and moving at an almost breathless pace and is hard to keep up with. There are changes overnight, with new trends and algorithm tweaks demanding adaptation. Because it&#8217;s so relentless and fast-paced, it can be pretty tricky to predict what happens next, but there are a few clues.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Going independent<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More creators are moving their top fans onto their own websites, apps and monetization tools to avoid being dependent on social media platforms&#8217; content and monetization rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Brand building<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, expect more and more creators to become founders of businesses, brands and everything in between. They&#8217;re building tools and fully-fledged teams that look a lot like more traditional production companies while using branding and merchandise as a way to help support these businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Metaverse<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s clear that community is the foundation of everything else, and creators are constantly innovating when it comes to how they connect with and involve their audiences. One of the newer developments in this sphere is the idea of NFTs and the metaverse. While there&#8217;s still a long way to go in developing these tools and ecosystems, the fundamentals behind the space enable creators to involve their communities in a much more direct way. So expect to see audience members directly investing in their favorite creators and helping to support creative projects with a much more hands-on approach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>More monetization options<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current AdSense models feel a little lacking and flawed \u2013 something widely discussed with many creators. So expect to see subscription-driven platforms such as <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-use-patreon-as-a-creator\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patreon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Substack and Buy Me A Coffee continue to grow, as well as platform-specific tipping and support options.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How can you capitalize on the creator economy?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, I guess the burning question is, <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-become-a-content-creator\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how to become a content creator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? With the industry having found its feet and growing exponentially, there&#8217;s never been a better time to get involved in something like TikTok or the YouTube economy. Many are asking about <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-become-a-social-media-influencer\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how to become a social media influencer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Due to the nature and vastness of the industry, there isn&#8217;t really any right or wrong answer here. The <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/youtube-video-creator\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTube video creators<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have risen to the top have all done so in very different ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Just do it<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is one rule, of course, and that is to create. The only way you&#8217;ll <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-find-your-style\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">find your style<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is through practice and repetition. 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Tools like a <\/span><a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/blog\/social-media-content-calendar\/\&quot;"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social media content calendar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can help you with this. In addition, starting off in one niche helps position you and your platform as an expert within this part of the Internet, enabling people to discover your content quicker by making the algorithm&#8217;s job much easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another top tip is that you don&#8217;t necessarily need to worry too much about production quality in the early stages. Once you begin to grow, you can start leveling up with the wealth of tools at your disposal. For example, utilizing <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/royalty-free-music\&quot;">royalty-free music<\/a> and <a href="\&quot;https:\/\/artlist.io\/stock-footage\&quot;">stock footage<\/a> services such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Artlist<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can help improve the overall quality of your work, enabling you to stand out from the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Wrapping up<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We hope you leave this article feeling a bit more clued up about the creator economy. It&#8217;s a vast, exciting, relatively new space and rapidly expanding. 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