The creator platform Patreon is preparing long-awaited upgrades to its newsletter functionality, and is using the promise of that enhanced suite of tools-along with financial incentives-to woo popular ...

We take a look at how journalists can make money on newsletter platforms such as Substack and Patreon in the latest of a series exploring new ways to make journalism pay. Previous articles have put a ...

Substack and Patreon are vying to become creators’ primary revenue stream. For most influencers, payouts from platforms like Meta or Google aren’t enough to build a sustainable career. Rather than ...

Substack has long positioned itself as a safe haven for independent writers — including, at times, publications that contain Nazi and other extremist content. The newsletter platform is now looking to ...

Substack took shots at TikTok last week by introducing live videos and offering a $25,000 prize to the creator whose video inspired the most TikTokers to migrate to its platform. But it’s not stopping ...

“The four shows making the switch as part of this announcement include the foreign policy program ‘American Prestige,’ which has over 2,000 paying Patreon subscribers, and the news analysis show ‘The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once high-flying start-ups that serve online creators and influencers have been forced into a painful ...

Between Facebook outages and Twitch data breaches, last week was bumpy for social platforms and the creators who build businesses on them. As internet creators look to diversify their income streams ...

It’s been an all-around more ambitious year for Twitter. Following activist shareholder action last year that aimed to oust CEO Jack Dorsey, the company has been making long overdue product moves, ...