Major changes are ahead for creators on entertainment subscription platform Patreon. Beginning in November, Apple will require Patreon to use the tech giant’s in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app. As Patreon wrote in a news release Monday...
As businesses seek more effective ways to monetize the rise of the influencer economy, leading players are pushing options for creators to offer their followers subscriptions, capitalizing on their fan bases. For instance, Meta shared last month that its Instagram Subscriptions offering for accounts with...
With increasing competition among platforms promising influencers and creators the opportunity to monetize their followings, Substack is pushing back against its reputation as a newsletter platform, emphasizing its multimedia tools. In a post to the platform Wednesday (Nov. 29), Co-founder and CEO Chris Best, Co-founder...
As part of its push to drive both consumer engagement and creator adoption outside of its membership offerings, Patreon has acquired livestreaming events company Moment. The monetization platform, which enables creators to offer paid subscriptions for their content, among other things, has purchased the startup,...
April 23, 2021
For artists, especially those with commercial ambitions, only a chosen few get to the big show. It was a frustrating fact for many in the analog era as a few record companies and even fewer film companies controlled what projects were “green lighted” and what stayed in the shadows. But the digital era, Patreon’s Vice […]
August 09, 2019
There are still countless books to be written about whether the digital age — the technology, the processes, the seemingly endless retail and service choices, the tracking of personal data,...
August 12, 2024
Major changes are ahead for creators on entertainment subscription platform Patreon. Beginning in November, Apple will require Patreon to use the tech giant’s in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app. As Patreon wrote in a news release Monday (Aug. 12), this has two “major consequences” for creators. For […]
August 03, 2023
A pair of seemingly unrelated payment issues are bedeviling Patreon creators and their fans. As The Verge reported Thursday (Aug. 3), some creators cannot access their earnings due to an issue with a payout...
September 13, 2022
Entertainment subscription site Patreon will be cutting around 17% of its staff and closing two offices in Europe, a Bloomberg report said. This will affect 80 employees in operations and...
April 17, 2022
Ukrainian journalists have been looking to the crowdfunding site Patreon to help finance their own coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Financial Times reported Saturday (April 16). This includes Olga...