Phillip and Brian look into tomorrow’s creator economy, shaped by the role of AI-driven agents in commerce and attention as currency. While rising generations invisibly develop instincts for algorithmic curation, Mr. Beast’s Feastables collect dust in your local Walgreens. PLUS: We bring you along to our NRF panel discussion alongside our friends from BigCommerce.
Velocity Over Volume
Key takeaways:
- Mr. Beast on Colin and Samir: His too many failed sidequests reveal a bigger picture about the viability of creator-led trends in the long term.
- The future of creator-driven consumer trends is agent-driven.
- Gen Alpha is a surveillance generation, and attention as currency is instinctual.
- Commerce is not just a transaction layer but an infrastructure that connects different facets of the digital world, and is the backbone for emerging tech trends.
- [00:07:40] “If the future of the attention economy is agentic…Do creators have some role to play in agent attention?” – Phillip
- [00:08:35] “The creator economy is a form of patronage.” – Phillip
- [00:11:35] “Gen Alpha is a surveillance generation…my children know instinctively that they’re constantly being surveilled. They give negative attention signals to things they don’t like.” – Phillip
- [00:21:10] “There’s going to continue to be bots in the world, and we are going to hate them.” – Brian
- [00:18:00] “The problem with running AI as effectively an API with a brain of its own is that it becomes completely impossible to diagnose when things go wrong. And that’s going to drive people crazy.” – Brian
- [00:22:00] “There's going to be entire categories that emerge just for creators to try to find alpha and arbitrage in the system.” – Phillip
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