YouTube understood early that, yeah, we're going to share some revenue with creators, but the trade off is going to be the billions of views. It took Instagram and Facebook forever,. I think to realize the value of creators in that way. So they never shared revenue with them. They didn't build studios like Facebook did. You'd get big on Instagram and then you would just have to rely on like merch to try to turn that into a living. And so they're finding that increasingly creators are like, okay, well, I'm going to TikTok.
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Molly and Jason chop it up about New York Attorney General Letitia James probing into MSG's alleged use of facial recognition to identify and target specific patrons (1:46). This segues into a great discussion about Meta's $10M deal with BuzzFeed and The Creator Economy as a whole (21:41). We cap off the week with two great interviews, one with LA26 graduate Nevsah Karamehmet of Breath Hub (36:17) and another with Brett Bauman, the creator of PlaylistAI (48:09).
(0:00) M+J kick off the show
(1:46) WLITF WTF: Facial recognition software at MSG
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(10:03) More on the NYAG case regarding MSG's facial recognition software
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(21:41) BuzzFeed's lucrative deal with Meta + Revenue share with creators
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(36:17) LA26 Founder: Nevsah Karamehmet of Breath Hub
(48:09) Ok Boomer with Brett Bauman
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