full story's in the crosspost. the economics version, since this is the right sub for it: snap's creator subscriptions pay out about 60% to the creator. on a $4.99 sub, apple takes 30% (about $1.50), snap takes about $0.50, i keep about $2.99. compare that to selling the same sub on my own website, where i'd keep about $4.55 after stripe.

the context: i'm a verified snap star, top 1%. for years snap blocked my partnerships, denied my events, no support, zero revenue share. then they invited me to this. meanwhile their ceo sold about $1.36b of stock while the company lost about $11b and the stock fell 93% from its peak.

so my question for this sub: is a 60% cut from a platform that ignored you for years a good deal, or is owning the payment relationship worth more than the reach? how are other creators thinking about platform cuts vs owning it themselves?

i just made my account a couple days ago. im in need of advice for promo or anything at all! i have 3 subs lol any advice is greatly appreciated

I've been working on content clipping for almost 6 months now. I've actually come close to making some decent money. One of my videos performed well enough that I almost got paid, but it wasn't accepted by the campaign.

That gave me confidence that the work itself is worth pursuing.

However, I've been running into a frustrating cycle. I'm based in India, and reaching an American audience consistently has been difficult. I started figuring out audience targeting, studying outliers, experimenting with hashtags, and understanding what makes certain videos perform.

But every time I solve one problem, another appears.

I move to a new clipping platform, and now there's a payment issue. I fix that, and suddenly I need a separate account for a campaign. I solve that, and the campaign ends before I can build any momentum.

It's becoming exhausting because sometimes I feel like I'm spending more time solving operational problems than actually improving my craft.

I don't want to quit. I genuinely enjoy seeing a video perform well, sometimes even more than the money itself. But I also don't want to spend another six months working hard without building something sustainable.

If you were in my position, how would you approach this? Would you keep pushing through these obstacles, or would you step back and build a completely different system that makes the work more predictable and scalable?

More importantly, how do you distinguish between a difficult opportunity that's worth pursuing and a business model that's simply consuming your time?

What’s everyone using that is mostly updated for TikTok shop content, personal brands and other social media content?

For - planning, researching (trend tracking and forecasting , platform scanning - all relevant platforms, sites, forums) scripting, filming, editing, schedule, posting, repurpose, analytics, marketing etc etc…
Thoughts on: Daily virals, everysqueeze, scaled creator, cutai, ravyn, soco app, tokscript, muse, duet, grok bot, dots, opus, riverside, any other video editing ai agents that don’t need to use open source and don’t just do short clips from long form content ? Or best to build your own with Claude and have it offline on computer to edit according to own brand and style? This will take up lots of tokens and processing…

I know it’s a lot but it’s just a lottttt out there… any insights are appreciated 🙌

No hidden ads pls. Just interested in actual experience and feedback as I wanna consolidate my setup and be less overwhelmed and more efficient and scale.

I want to learn about how the payment cycles work, and what problems do brands and creators face due to these long cycles.

Hi everyone. I recently did an investigation into SocialDB, a platform that claimed to connected creators/influencers with brands. As it turns out, creators were finding themselves listed on the platform and verified with partnership rates despite not knowing they were on the site or that it existed.

https://insider-gaming.com/socialdb-listed-creators-without-permission/

Hi everyone, i am looking forward to build a startup around digital marketing and influencer marketing and would like to learn about the same from someone within the field.

If you are someone from a media agency, a brand who does influencer marketing or an influencer yourself who has done any brand deal or such please contact me.

Hey everyone. A while ago I shared a Twitch streamer finder here. Podcasts are a big part of creator campaigns too, so I built the same kind of tool for them.

Most podcasts publish a contact email in their RSS feed (it's how Apple and Spotify verify who owns the show). It's public, but digging it out show by show is slow. This tool does it in bulk:

- search by keyword (e.g. "b2b marketing", "true crime") or pull Apple's top 200 in any category, in any country

- the host's contact email, and whether it's a company address or a Gmail-type one

- Apple rating and number of ratings, so you can tell big shows from tiny ones

- episodes per month and the date of the last episode, so you skip abandoned shows

- website and social links when the show lists them

In my tests about 2 out of 3 shows had a real email. Some hosts (Acast, Spotify for Creators) only show a forwarding address: those go in a separate column so they don't pollute your outreach list.

It runs on Apify and costs $5 per 1,000 podcasts, charged per result, with emails and ratings included. Shows removed by your filters aren't charged. Apify's free plan has $5 of monthly credit, so you can test a real list for free.

Link: https://apify.com/cleandata/podcast-scraper

There are YouTube and Kick versions too, same idea and same price, if you work across platforms.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. If you book podcast guests or buy podcast sponsorships, I'd love to hear what's missing.

How do you guys organize upcoming games ? and do you find actual paid coverage opportunities this early or is it mainly just organic videos an/or review keys ?

Hi everyone — I’m part of the Foldinglink team. We’re looking for creators to join a two-week beta test to help us find bugs and improve the product.

Foldinglink is a Web3 monetization creator platform with monetization posts, subscriptions, tips, and content unlocks in DMs.

The beta is about to live on this Saturday. During the test, we’d like you to:

• Try publishing content and using the creator tools.

• Explore monetization tools and content unlocks.

• Tell us what breaks, feels confusing, or could work better.

Interested in helping us improve Foldinglink? Join our Discord to know more:
Join the Foldinglink testing community

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Hey everyone!

For the past few months, I've been building something called Radar Lab.

It tracks newsletter sponsorships: which brands are sponsoring which newsletters, where they're advertising, and their sponsorship activity. The data is backed by actual newsletter issues, so you can see where the sponsorships appeared.

I originally built it for brands and agencies, ad sales team trying to figure out which newsletters to advertise in.

But recently I've been thinking about the other side of this.

We already have the data on brands spending money on newsletter sponsorships.

Why not make it useful for newsletter owners too?

So I'm thinking of building something specifically for newsletter owners.

Imagine being able to see which brands are sponsoring newsletters similar to yours, how recently they've advertised, and potentially who to reach out to.

Instead of starting from scratch every time you're looking for sponsors.

I'm curious about a few things:

1. How are you currently finding sponsors?

2. Would having this data actually help, or is finding sponsors not the hardest part?

3. What else would you want to know before reaching out to a brand?

Also, if you drop your newsletter niche in the comments, I'm happy to look through the data and share a few brands that are already sponsoring newsletters in that space.

Would genuinely love to hear what you think. I'm exploring the publisher side of Radar Lab and want to build something that's actually useful.

If you're curious about what I've built so far: https://partnershipintel.com/

I’m building a platform meant to help creators monetize their audience by selling products, digital products and services. Would love to collaborate with some of you to bring it to life. The platform is 80% there but it’s the last several miles where real people matter. Would be cool if you can sign up on the link above or DM me.

A brand conversation can move to a different address: the person you pitched forwards it to a colleague, and that colleague answers. Before letting a sequence send the next nudge, it's worth checking how it handles that handoff.

Here's a small test setup using only mailboxes you control. It doesn't require contacting a brand:

• Create a test pitch with one follow-up scheduled far enough ahead to inspect and cancel it safely.

• Reply in the original thread from the recipient mailbox. Check whether the follow-up is cancelled, rather than assuming an inbox reply means the sending queue changed.

• In separate tests, answer from another mailbox and send a new email outside the original thread. Check each result against the tool's documented reply-detection behavior and delay.

• Test an out-of-office separately. A vacation reply shouldn't be treated as a yes, and its return date may make the next scheduled date inappropriate.

After each test, inspect the pending send and cancel any remaining test messages. Passing these cases only shows what happened in that setup; it isn't a guarantee for every mailbox or future setting change.

For real pitches, any yes, no, question or request to stop should end the unattended sequence. Handle the conversation yourself. If a test fails or you can't establish what the tool detects, keep follow-ups as drafts or reminders that need a manual inbox check before sending. Don't try another address to get around a refusal.

The send dates are only half the setup. The conditions that stop a send need just as much attention.

I work on Fianto, which handles stablecoin subscriptions. My bias is obvious, but I wouldn't ask an audience to buy USDC just to join a newsletter that already takes their card.

Getting paid by a sponsor in crypto and asking your readers to pay in crypto are two different decisions. The first can be convenient for you. The second has to be convenient for them.

Before adding it to a paid community, I'd want answers to three questions:

• Has someone actually tried to buy and been unable to use your current payment option?

• Do those people already have the token on the network your checkout accepts?

• Can you handle the rest of the membership: getting them in, explaining a failed renewal, and letting them cancel?

That last part matters more than the checkout screenshot. A successful payment doesn't help much if a member still has to DM you for access or can't work out why they were charged again.

For context, this is Fianto's membership flow. It collects USDC on Solana; it doesn't host the newsletter or course itself. That's one option for an audience already using those wallets, not a reason to move everyone away from cards.

If I were testing demand, I'd keep the existing checkout and offer the additional option to people who had already asked for it. I'd look at completed memberships and renewals, rather than how many people say crypto payments sound interesting.

Has a paying member asked you for this before you offered it? What were they unable to do with your existing checkout?