Writing Success Requires Craft, Business Savvy, and Boundaries
Hard author truths: 1. If monthly income posts trigger you—block them. Seriously. Protect your peace. That includes me. Curate your space instead of complaining about what others choose to share. 2. Anyone can write a book. Not everyone can write one that sells. This is a craft. It takes time, reps, failure, and growth. 3. Indie authors who make money at this are business owners. Marketing, ads, data, strategy. If you don’t want to learn that, then full time isn’t for you and that’s okay.
Instagram Reassures Meme Creators, Cracks Down on Content Thieves
Instagram isn't trying to get rid of memes — they actually had a call to reassure meme creators on Thursday They're trying to get rid of aggregators that rip off other people's content
Free Tools Replace $100k Barriers; Mindset Matters
You have access to tools that would've cost $100k ten years ago: • Video editing: Free • CRM software: Free • Email automation: Free • AI writing assistant: Free • Payment processing: 2.6% The barrier isn't resources anymore It's belief
Turn LinkedIn Posts Into Paid Course Opportunities
Your next LinkedIn post could lead to a PAID course deal with LinkedIn Learning. How do I know? Well... It happened to me... My LinkedIn courses have been watched by 96,000 people. Here's a break down on how I brought the...
Seeking Effective Prompt for GPT Image 2 Thumbnails
Anyone figure out how to generate great YouTube thumbnails with GPT Image 2 yet? Have a good prompt?
Automate WordPress SEO with GSC‑Driven Updates
roborank automates: - Refreshing your Wordpress/Webflow SEO content - Uses GSC to know what to improve - Helps you do KW research based off GSC data (using Ahrefs/DataForSEO) You hit a button, and it'll: - Updates your Meta Titles and Meta Descriptions (better than...
Meta's Empty Promises Keep Platform Favoring Content Thieves
People getting all excited about Instagram supposedly changing rules to favor original content have a bad memory. Meta's made nearly the same announcement so many times throughout the years, and we still have this hell scape that benefits slackers and...
One Prompt Turns Granola Meeting Into Video
You can now type this into Claude: "Pull my latest Granola meeting and turn it into a 60-second HeyGen video." Claude pulls the meeting from Granola, drafts the script, hands it to HeyGen for rendering, and gives you back a finished video....
Creator Fund Empowers Boating Community to Build Profitable Brands
.@slow creator fund backs deep communities with real-world products. We just backed America's most trusted boating group: Center Consoles Only (CCO) Alan Blanco started making boat review videos in 2016. Today, he and the team operate three businesses under their holding...
Resurrecting Vine: 6-Second Human Videos Against AI Overload
AI made video infinite. Real people are fighting back 6 seconds at a time. In a world where creators need to produce ever-longer content to get views... partly because YouTube is increasingly fixated on big-screen TVs. In a place where...
Solo Founder Pieter Levels Earns $3M, Outsmarts Larger Teams
Pieter Levels makes $3M a year as a solo founder. Here's how he is beating teams 10x his size👇
SAG‑AFTRA Debuts ‘I Am An Actor’ Podcast Featuring Top Stars
SAG-AFTRA Launches ‘I Am An Actor’ Podcast; First Guests Include Quinta Brunson, Kate Hudson, Mariska Hargitay, Kerry Washington (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/bHYAqMJlqN via @variety
YouTube's Mobile Test May Crop Your Thumbnails
YouTube is running an experiment on mobile devices that changes thumbnail and video sizes in the home feed. This may result in your thumbnails appearing cropped.
Secrets Behind All Healthy’s 52% Open Rate
All Healthy has 1.3 million subscribers and a 52% open rate. In this episode, Sean Devlin shares how he's running it, plus: - Making your audience addicted to your emails - The right approach to sponsorships - Tips for newsletter design Search "Nathan Barry...
How I Cracked 8M Views on a New Channel
Here’s the story of how I got 8,000,000 views on one video on a new channel: https://t.co/Qqr1ObErIM
Spotify's Verified Badge Distinguishes Humans, Not AI‑Free Music
To address the flood of AI-generated artists on the platform, Spotify is rolling out a “Verified by Spotify” badge to help listeners more easily identify authentic human artists. This will become increasingly commonplace across platforms. That said just because the artists...
AI Generators Gain Power When Treated as Infrastructure
RT @VoxOptima AI Content Generator: From Text to Video Systems ~ Milagros Beltrame | https://t.co/DGflELq5ns @MrWideo "An AI content generator becomes far more valuable when it stops acting like a standalone tool and starts operating like infrastructure."
YouTube Dominates Living Rooms, 10M Shorts Channels Daily
And from the earnings call about YouTube (it's a beast): YouTube on TVs: *In the living room, U.S. viewers are watching over 200 million hours of YouTube content daily. And Shorts galore: *As of March, we’ve reached a new milestone with over 10...
Creators Reporting Live: Journalism's Decentralized Future Revealed
I was at the Substack party when things went into lockdown. At the same time, creators were already reporting on it across their own platforms. That moment said everything about where media is headed. More on what I saw + the future of...
Stablecoins Power Creator Payouts via Stripe, Meta
Creator payouts are one of the killer use cases for stablecoins Excited for @tempo to be working with Stripe and Meta to payout to shiny @link wallets
From Kickstarter to $150M: Ghost Empowers Publishers
On this day, 13y ago, @ghost started as an idea on kickstarter 5,000+ people backed the project to help bring it to life and support the future of media and journalism Today, Ghost has generated over $150M for independent publishers all over...
Meta Pays Billions in USDC to 100M Creators
"100 million people being paid in USDC to the tune of billions of dollars is amazing." 😍 -- @kaiynne on Meta paying creators in stablecoins https://t.co/WRtMtepjzU
Meta Shifts Creator Payments to Stablecoins, Expands Instagram Payout Engine
On Meta paying creators in stablecoins 😮 "The Instagram industrial complex must be one of the largest creator payout systems." -- @kaiynne https://t.co/WRtMtepjzU
Treat Stripe as Your Main Account Balance
One thing I wonder is how you do accounting for this? I guess not so different, cause you still just account your expenses and your income, but the main balance just becomes Stripe?
Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 Turns Images Into 3D Instantly
3D is about to get disrupted… hard Microsoft just dropped TRELLIS.2 turn a single image into a high-quality, fully textured 3D asset in seconds. No complex pipeline. No heavy manual work. This is the kind of shift that kills friction and speeds...
Substack Promotion Boosts First‑Week Book Sales
lena dunham reportedly sold 60k copies of her book in the first week. she did a ton of press on substack—guest essays, q&as, etc. thought this was an interesting insight that likely also applies to products other than books.
Post‑Jam Vibe Games Offer Real Monetization Opportunities
First monetization I'm seeing of #vibejam games I think many can become actually profitable games (and so businesses) after the Vibe Jam ends Just need to figure out what to sell
Beehiiv Offers All‑In‑One Newsletter Platform, Free Plan, No Fees
beehiiv packs newsletter publishing, audience growth, and monetization into one platform, with a useful free plan and no subscription revenue fees. https://t.co/zERWwi42iU
Ben Thompson Launches New Subscription Platform, Ankler Migrates
feel like the bigger news here is that Ben Thompson is building a subscription platform? super sick
Half of U.S. Creators Earn Under $10k Annually
Nearly half of all U.S. creators are earning less than $10k/year. The barrier to entry is low, but the path to a sustainable, professional income is being hollowed out.
Twitch Trials Weekly Badge that Boosts Watch Rewards
Twitch is testing a new Weekly Rewards Badge. The badge upgrades the more you watch each week, and rewards additional channel points.
Creators Favor Comment Replies Over Livestreams and Meetups
Comments are one of creators’ favorite ways to engage with their audience, according to new data from EMARKETER / Influencer Marketing Factory. 29% of creators say replying to comments, 19.6% say livestreams, and 4.9% say in-person meetups and events. I’m surprised that...
Year‑Long Probe Reveals Stake’s Paid Influencer Scheme
If you like this story, you will LOVE our year-long investigation into the crypto casino Stake's paid influencers: https://t.co/k5NUcYvB3l https://t.co/hEcXCsqFpE
AI Wearable Turns Daily Life Into Continuous Vlog
An AI wearable device that regularly captures footage throughout the day and compiles it into a full-day vlog.
Salesforce Sponsors Future Vision XPRIZE; Slack Workspace Launches
Big news — @Salesforce is joining us as a presenting sponsor of Future Vision XPRIZE (a $3.5M global competition challenging filmmakers to make 3-min sci-fi shorts of an optimistic future. Fiction becomes the blueprint.) And the @SlackHQ workspace (powered by Agentforce)...
Twitch Drops clips.twitch.tv, Shows Username on New Clips
Twitch appears to have retired the clips.twitch.tv/ linking system. New clips now feature the creator's username. Old clips are automatically redirected to this system.
VCs Claim Sidelines Support, Then Dive in After Investing
VCs when they don’t invest: “we’ll be cheering from the sidelines” VCs when they invest and get in the game: https://t.co/XIs9vSgUQw
Anthropic Launches Claude Connectors for Major Creative Tools
New connectors -> Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows https://t.co/gqpuOcQ6GI https://t.co/ATn6oyu5vQ
Most AI Carousels Fail Due to Poor Tool Setup
I am not saying AI carousels are always bad. I am saying most people making them right now don't have their AI tools set up for them to be good.
Attribution Gaps Keep Influencer Campaigns From Proving ROI
One of the major hurdles for both influencers (pre-established celebs) and social media creators from a brand deal perspective is accurate attribution. Outside of affiliate links, it's very difficult to translate social campaign impact into dollars.
Traditional Listening Misses Video; Syncly Reads Every Frame
There's a big problem with most social listening... They don't reallyyy read video. Sure, they'll index AROUND the video, grabbing captions, hashtags, @ mentions, but they often can't notice what's INSIDE the video—like when a creator holds up your product or...
New Media Boom May Be Illusion, Not Reality
It increasingly feels like some of the prevailing assumptions underpinning new media’s growth over the past decade has been a mirage. Take a closer look at the new newsletters, podcasts, videos, Substacks, and livestreams entering the market. You undoubtedly are seeing...
VPs Confirm B2B Creators Drive LinkedIn Growth
A peek inside the @exitfivemedia community, where again, I'm seeing VPs of marketing/growth saying B2B creators are what's moving the needle on LinkedIn (I told you so) https://t.co/AiODaALX9m
Voicebox Dethrones ElevenLabs with Open‑source, Local TTS
With Voicebox, @ElevenLabs just lost its moat. → Powered by Alibaba's Qwen3-TTS for near-perfect cloning → Ships with a DAW-like "Stories Editor" → No cloud, runs locally on your machine 100% Open Source. 100% Local. Link to repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/Qs5AiHvk2p
LinkedIn Newsletters Now Outpacing External Platforms
I have a sneaking suspicion that LinkedIn is becoming a more valuable place to host a newsletter than an external platform, and they're leaning into that. Still keeping my external list, but the organic growth on the version I put on...
Google Gemini's Lyria Generates Full Songs, Not Just Lyrics
Creating song lyrics with AI is so 2025. Now you can compose entire songs using the Lyria model in Google Gemini. It's pretty darn astonishing. Here's how it works, with sample tracks in a variety of styles: https://t.co/7pNLIXLd7b #gemini #lyria...
YouTube Trials AI-Powered Conversational Search for US Premium Users
YouTube is testing a conversational search powered by AI. This experiment is available for Premium members in the USA.
Keeping the Newsletter Free, Funded by Sponsorships
I’ve had a few people tell me this week I need to make my newsletter paid because I’m giving too much away for free… but I feel like I would rather keep it open and share the information and just...
Dietitians Turn Influencers as Fitness Gurus Overprescribe GI Fixes
"Why are dietitians trying to be influencers?" Because fitness influencers are out here trying to tell people that their anxiety might not need an SSRI, just some GI mapping. 😑
Publishing Is Free: Anyone Can Launch a Newsletter
1/2 There is almost no barrier to starting a newsletter or podcast these days. Substack, Spotify, YouTube, you name it. Anyone with a computer and internet access can publish something — the production cost is almost zero, if you don’t...