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By Photo: Illustration by Mike Sullivan Welcome to the first edition of the Creator Economy newsletter from The Information. Social media influencers have extraordinary power over culture and they are among the savviest entrepreneurs of our time. They are also multiplying: By late last year, some 50 million people considered themselves creators, according to venture firm SignalFire. While the creator economy is booming, information about it is fragmented and sometimes hard to follow. This newsletter aims to cut through the noise with news, commentary and financial analysis on the creators and companies driving the industry. Weâll examine the biggest VC deals, go inside the big tech companiesâ strategies and highlight creators moving up the charts. And weâll keep you up-to-date on trends with short explanations (Curious why TikTokers are chanting âSheeshâ? Read on.)
Creator+, a new film studio and streaming platform for digital-first storytellers and their audience who want to support them, raised $12m in funding. The round was led by Petra Group and Freestyle Capital, with participation from Jake Roper, Peter Hollens, Wendy Ayche (aka Wengie), Selina Tobaccowala, and strategic business partners including Jazwares CEO Judd Zebersky. Led by Benjamin Grubbs, former global head of top creator partnerships at YouTube, and startup veteran Jonathan Shambroom, Creator+ is a new film studio and streaming platform for digital-first storytellers. Films presented by Creator+ will premiere on the company’s proprietary platform across web, mobile and connected TV devices in a premium video on-demand (PVOD) offering with no subscriptions or ads. Creators partnering with the company have transparent backend revenue participation, and will receive audience insights and ownership.
Creator+, Founded By Crackle And YouTube Vets, Raises $12 Million To Turn Influencers Into Movie Stars A startup founded by two digital video veterans called Creator+ has raised $12 million from venture capitalists and top creators alike in its stated bid to spin influencers into full-fledged movie stars. Creator+ was founded by former Crackle general manager and serial entrepreneur Jonathan Shambroom (pictured above, left) and Benjamin Grubbs (right), the former global head of top creator partnerships at YouTube (and the founder of the Next 10 Ventures creator fund, for which he still serves as lead and partner). Creator+ will finance, produce, market, and distribute feature films headlined by influencers, and also offer merch and community-building components surrounding these releases on its owned-and-operated platform.
The Creator+ leadership team The media startup, co-founded by YouTube vet Benjamin Grubbs and tech veteran Jonathan Shambroom, will see digital media vet Adam Wescott running its content arm. There's another player in the digital content race. Targeting Gen Z creators and consumers, with a focus on longform content, former YouTube global head of creator partnerships Benjamin Grubbs and serial Bay Area entrepreneur Jonathan Shambroom recently announced studio and streaming platform Creator+. Now it's setting the roster for its Hollywood-facing wing, tapping leadership for the content studio. The studio will be led by longtime digital media executive and producer Adam Wescott, who hails from Select Management Group. Wescott, who developed and produced content around digital creators like Eva Gutowski, Gigi Gorgeous and Lauren Riihimaki, departs Select two years after he and co-founder Scott Fisher merged operations with Lisa Filipelli's Flip Management.
Creator+ raises $12M to build a film studio and streaming service focused on digital storytellers In the words of co-founder and CEO Jonathan Shambroom, Creator+ is a new startup that will “finance, produce and distribute feature-length films from today’s top creators and emerging storytellers.” The company is coming out of stealth today and also announcing that it has raised $12 million in funding led by Petra Group and Freestyle Capital, with participation from Jake Roper, Peter Hollens, Wendy Ayche (a.k.a. Wengie), Selina Tobaccowala, Jazwares CEO Judd Zebersky and others. Shambroom (who’s been an executive at numerous startups and also served as general manager at Crackle) told me that one of the key aspects of the Creator+ strategy is that it controls “both sides of the equation” — it’s both producing films and building its own streaming platform, where the movies will be available for individual purchase, with no subscriptions and no ads.
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Publisher's note: If you appreciate the musical and cinematography creativity of the extra talented Piano Guys, as much as we do here at BCN, you can easily access all of their segments here. My Christmas, 2016 discovery of new Piano Guys holiday material is complete, and I have them here on BCN for your Yule Tide enjoyment, after exhausting an extensive, thorough search on BCN's Video Search. I wish there were more than these two that I found, but there were not more when I performed this search, but, hopefully, we will find more next year. Tenor Plácido Domingo (left), Cellist Steven Sharpe Nelson (right): Above.