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Net InfluencerSep 29, 2026
Jourdan Blue Has Been Performing His Whole Career … The Livestream Is What Pays
Jourdan Blue’s early livestreaming setup had one unusual piece of equipment: a TV remote control. He set his phone to record, pulled up YouTube on the TV, and sang cover songs into the remote. A month in, a single hour of livestreaming paid out more than anyth
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Raptive Launches Free, Ad-Supported Creator Communities to Rival the Paywall Model
Raptive has launched Raptive Community, a free, ad-supported platform that gives creators a dedicated space to build and monetize direct audience relationships outside the social feed. Revenue is split 50/50 between creator and platform, and more than 150 comm
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Net InfluencerSep 29, 2026
How ContenFest Turned Montreal’s Language Divide Into a Creator Economy Advantage
Canada’s Creator Economy runs along a language fault line. In Quebec, Francophone creators operate in a largely separate ecosystem from their Anglophone counterparts, with different platforms, different sponsors, and different professional networks. Jacques Ea
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Net InfluencerSep 29, 2026
Upfluence Turns Its Creator Marketing Platform Fully Agentic, Betting AI Can Run Campaigns End to End
Running an influencer campaign has always required someone to find creators, write outreach, handle negotiations, review content, and file reports. On September 9, Influencer Marketing software platform Upfluence told its customers an AI would handle most of t
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From Campaigns to Payouts: CreatorCore Is Building Infrastructure for End-to-End Creator Campaign Management
When The Clementine Group, a talent management and Influencer Marketing agency, outgrew spreadsheets, co-founders Dominick Paielli and Nic Campanile built their own campaign software. Peers in the industry started asking to white-label it. That internal tool i
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Meet Bruce ‘Pop Pop’ Johnson, the Grandfather the Internet Didn’t Know It Needed
Alexander, 39, portrays Bruce “Pop Pop” Johnson, a fictional grandfather character whom he built around a simple idea: “Have tea with [the audience].” “Pop Pop” operates as a grandfather figure who leads with warmth and roots every decision in what he calls th
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Snapchat launches pitch for B2B ad spend
A new campaign ties back to efforts to promote the opportunities to reach key decision-making audiences in the app, which could present all-new considerations for B2B promotions.
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Meta opens early access to advanced Muse features
The company’s vision seems to be that Muse can help make people’s wants a reality by undertaking tasks on their behalf, thereby enabling more opportunity for exploration.
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LinkedIn tests advanced creator discovery to power brand campaigns
As validation from credible subject matter experts grows more important, creator marketing has become a bigger part of B2B strategies.
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Instagram shares Reels creation tips in new guide
The refresher on some of the more recent additions to the creation process comes as Reels consumption makes up more than 50% of users’ time on IG.
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Meta launches enterprise AI platform to drive business opportunities
The offering is intended to help businesses to use its Muse agents, Muse API and Muse Code products for more automated support for internal functionality and operations.
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How agencies can turn holiday intent into action
Explore how holiday shoppers move from discovery to purchase on TikTok.
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