June 26, 2019
300M-user meme site Imgur raises $20M from Coil to pay creators
Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across...
April 9, 2019
An Equity deep dive on Patreon
The popular TechCrunch podcast Equity this week launched a new series called...
October 9, 2018
SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later
SoundCloud moves painfully slow for a tech company, and no one feels that pain...
August 8, 2018
Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates
Patreon is forming a patronage empire. Today it acquired white-labeled...
February 6, 2018
Patreon Lens is Snapchat for creators’ paid fans only
Exclusive content is how creators get patrons to pay them a monthly...
July 25, 2017
Facebook acquires Source3 to get content creators paid
Facebook is on the cusp of a big push to lure independent content creators...
June 14, 2017
Patreon gives creators CRM and Snapchat Stories clone just for fans who pay
Ads aren’t enough to support professional online content makers. So...