Creator Economy
Sahil Bloom and the Five Types of Wealth
Sahil Bloom built a multi-channel personal-finance creator business — The Curiosity Chronicle newsletter, course programs, and the 2025 book The 5 Types of Wealth.
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Creator Economy
Creator Economy
Doomberg: The Pseudonymous Energy Substack
Doomberg built one of the largest Substack businesses without ever revealing the identities behind the green-chicken avatar. The pseudonymous category-authority model.
Creator Economy
The Everything-PR Creator Operators Directory
A curated directory of writers, tech YouTubers, podcasters, solopreneur educators, creator-direct platforms, and creator-magnates that define the creator economy in 2026.
Influencer Marketing
Substack vs Ghost vs beehiiv: Newsletter Platform Economics Compared
Three platforms run the newsletter economy: Substack (10% of revenue), Ghost (zero, self-hosted), and beehiiv (zero plus tiered pricing). The economics, the trade-offs, and which platform fits which operator.
Influencer Marketing
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.
Influencer Marketing
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.
Influencer Marketing
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.
Social Media
LinkedIn Newsletters: The Format That Beat Substack on Distribution
LinkedIn Newsletters quietly beat Substack on distribution for business writers. Hundreds of thousands of subscribers, three-channel delivery, professional identity layer integration. The format mechanics.
Pets & Pet Industry
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.
Influencer Marketing
The Creator Holding Company Index: After Beast Industries
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.