How to Earn a Living on Social Media
Social media platforms earn a fortune from our unpaid labour. Users share pictures on Instagram, tell stories on Twitter and offer up their music on YouTube - all for free.
Social media platforms earn a fortune from our unpaid labour. Users share pictures on Instagram, tell stories on Twitter and offer up their music on YouTube - all for free. But have the tables now turned? Patreon offers fans the ability to pay their favourite artists and writers directly. TikTok and Facebook have started offering cash to the most popular 'creators'. So what is the 'creator economy', and who is policing this online world?
Guests: Sam Yam, co-founder of Patreon; Kaya Yurieff, tech reporter at The Information; Beckii Flint, YouTube influencer and founder of Pepper Studio, a social media marketing agency; Chris Stokel-Walker, author of TikTok Boom: China鈥檚 Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media; Kaf Okpattah, reporter at 大象传媒 Panorama.
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| Role | Contributor |
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| Presenter | Julian Worricker |
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Fri 20 Aug 2021 21:30- Sat 21 Aug 2021 00:30
- Sat 21 Aug 2021 16:30
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