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Who has a following online and is creating content. let me stay with you for a moment on the status quo and what we might be changing from. say, for the sake of argument, someone has an instagram following of 100,000 people. how is she or he making money based on those 100,000 at the moment? the most common way by far is sponsored content, so thats promoting a product in an instagram post or in a story, so thats by far the most popular way people make money, but creators have really branched out...

Selling out arenas - for boxing events off. the back of their online influencer community, i so many different places. youtube and tiktok of course also starting now to - directly monetise people. but that 96.5% figure, thats quite telling, isnt it? it is. i think this is a really - broadly ranging subject and... the haves have an awful lot of money and they have - the have— nots who are most of us when it comes to create a space i and i think that tiktok in particular by trying i to develop a...

A little bit, but there _ are always different platforms, not least patreon asi well, who are kind of offering other alternatives. a sort of way of spreading out your eggs in many, i many baskets. becky, let me talk to you a moment about when you were a youtube influencer as a teenager under the name of becky cruel, i think. and you did a lot of material which was watched and widely followed, particularly injapan. heres a clip of some of it. she sings injapanese and english. so, how much money w...

Crowds continue to gather outside kabul airport, amid reports of chaotic scenes as the us advises its citizens not to travel there until they are asked, because of security threats outside the gates. pentagon officials described the situation around the airport gates as fluid and dynamic. the taliban say they are making progress in forming a government in afghanistan. the groups co—founder and head of its political wing, mullah abdul ghani baradar, is in kabulfor talks, which are expected to i...

But im quite young and like a lot of young people, i... youve got a few years�* advantage on me, lets put it on that way! i hope so! i spend a lot of time on social media scrolling through instagram and snapchat and i kept noticing these fraud posts popping up on my feed and it turns out im not the only one because as part of this investigation, i went to my old school to speak to some 16 and 17—year—olds. they said they were seeing the same thing, people glamorising fraud, selling methods...

It so easy for the average person to go viral and garner a big audience and i think that social media platforms of realising that creators drive a lot of engagement and trends, and its not enough any more to just give them a place to grow an audience. they need to offer them better features and ways to get money, and besides youtube, which used to be the only game in town, there wasnt a way to earn directly from social media networks until the last year or so. will this will becky, what you make...

And whos moderating all of this online? well, let me introduce you to our guests. sam yam is the co—founder and now the chief technical officer of patreon. in a few sentences, sam, give us a flavour of what patreon actually is and what it does. thanks for having me, julian. patreon is effectively a platform for creators to get paid in an ongoing sustainable way to their community, and in return, their community gets access to exclusive content, access to the creators and in many cases, a safe ...

Heavy rain from northern england, wet weather for east anglia and into the east midlands and south—east england here over the next few hours. temperatures to start the day on sunday, 13— 15 degrees. a scotland across eastern areas of england as well. through sunday i think we will still have some cloud and patches of rain working in across the east coast anywhere from lincolnshire down towards kent and later showers in central and later showers in central and eastern scotland, central and ea...

We are going to hear the words creator and influencer i suspect quite a lot in the next 25 minutes. whats the difference? so, this has been a huge topic of debate for some people. for me, i really think theyre interchangeable. i think a few years ago, we would have said instagram influencer and a youtube creator, but i think creator has become the more preferred word now, but i dont think theres a huge difference between them. it really refers to someone who has a following online and is creatin...

Flowing very well any more? it can take a very big toll on your mental health as well so i think opportunities for creators to, kind of, regain that connection with their audience in a real direct way is something thats going to be really beneficial going forward. we have talked about making money via social media but of course, for every well—intentioned musician, there is someone perhaps with slightly darker motives. i have been speaking to cath, who is a reporter from the bbc panorama progr...