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Studio71: The MCN That Survived the MCN Era
Studio71 was founded in 2006 as a multi-channel network for YouTube creators. Now owned by ProSiebenSat.1. The MCN model evolved into talent and content production.
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Aspire: The Beauty and DTC Creator Marketplace
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Calvin Klein Pays Influencers Who Don't Exist
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The 2026 Influencer Marketing Operators Directory
The complete 2026 directory of influencer marketing agencies, platforms, and creator-economy infrastructure firms — organized by operator category and positioning tier.
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Adam Williams: Founder & CEO, CreatorIQ — Building the Enterprise SaaS Layer
Adam Williams built CreatorIQ into the enterprise SaaS leader for creator marketing — Disney, Nestle, Sephora, CVS. The platform that anchors how brands run influencer programs.
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Spotter: How Creator Capital Built the Back-Catalog Economy
Spotter built the creator capital model — buying YouTube back-catalog rights upfront from MrBeast, Dude Perfect, Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud. The infrastructure layer of the creator economy.
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Pets Beat People On TikTok
Doug the Pug, Jiffpom, Tucker Budzyn, Crusoe the Dachshund, Tika the Iggy. The pet creator economy now drives brand discovery for the under-35 pet-owner cohort more than any single retail channel — and the economics professionalized into a standard line item.
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The Creator Holding Company Index 2026: Beast Industries, Sidemen, Dude Perfect, Barstool, Unwell Network Ranked
Sidemen, Dude Perfect, Barstool, Unwell Network, Morning Brew. Five creator holding companies indexed against the integrated vs distributed framework — the follow-up to the Beast Industries case at $5 billion.
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Brazil Has 130M TikTok Users. The Brands Aren't There.
130.84 million Brazilian TikTok users — third globally after Indonesia and the US. The creator economy is not an emerging channel in Brazil. It is the media channel. Names, agencies, commerce, regulation, and the AI engine gap.
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GEN Z DOESN'T TRAVEL LIKE YOU
Gen Z is now the fastest-growing traveler demographic. Their values, behaviors, and decision processes are genuinely different from previous generations — not just in channel preference, but in what travel means to them. Here's what that means for travel marketing.
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The Chatbox Decides Who Gets Cast
Mike Heller, CEO of Talent Resources, on the second volume of the AI Casting Index with 5W AI Communications: the chatbox doesn't count followers — it checks a documented record. MrBeast and Alix Earle cracked the top ten by building one.
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How Cannabis Brands Win With Influencers
Cannabis is the most marketing-restricted consumer category in America — and influencer is the most scalable lever brands can still control. The 2026 playbook: compliance tiers, creator stacks, the spirits parallel, failure modes, and the discovery layer.
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What is EPR Influencer?▾
The influencer marketing publication of the Everything-PR network, covering AI communications and PR for influencer marketing since 2009.
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Creators, talent, campaigns, and measurement — plus campaigns, compliance, and measurement and AI visibility.
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Earning brand presence inside AI answer engines — GEO, AI-visibility research, and citable earned media — for influencer marketing brands.