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Substack adds new video tools to compete with Patreon and YouTube
Substack has beefed up its video capabilities, offering users the ability to directly upload content and lock it behind customizable paywalls. There’s also an AI tool to generate transcripts and more efficient cross-platform sharing options.
Patreon overhauls its platform with free content and more creator control
Patreon announced a slew of changes to its platform today. The most prominent is that it’s not much easier for non-paying users can access the platform.
Patreon app adds simple Discord-like group chats
Patreon creators have a new option to interact with fans, as the subscription platform just rolled out a group chat feature. This community chat allows creators to interact with fans, but also lets subscribers talk to one another in a space outside of comments. Creators can have up to four chats going at once and there’s a toolset in place to allow certain restrictions as to who can participate.
Patreon creators can now publish subscriber-only podcasts on Spotify
Patreon creators can now publish patron-only podcast content to Spotify after linking the two accounts.
Patreon is fixing canceled payments and inaccessible funds for creators
Patreon said today it has fixed the root cause of a problem that led to creators and patrons seeing widespread rejected payments this week, and it’s still working to solve the larger problem. The funding platform confirmed to Engadget that financial institutions have flagged “a slightly higher-than-normal number of patron payments” as fraudulent. In addition, some creators said they’re unable to access their funds, which Patreon describes as an unrelated problem stemming from a partner update.
Patreon finally adds native video to its membership platform
Patreon is rolling out its native video hosting platform to Pro and Premium creators. The feature is free to use at the moment, but the website will start charging for it after 2023.
Patreon lays off 17 percent of its employees
The popular platform for creators let go 80 staffers and is closing some offices.
Demonetizing ‘problematic’ YouTubers isn’t effective, researchers say
YouTube’s existing policies are not enough to discourage creators from posting “problematic” content, according to a new study.
Patreon is building its own video hosting platform
It's looking to help creators bypass YouTube and Vimeo.
Patreon may let you reward creators with crypto
Patreon is considering policies that would let creators offer crypto coins to fans.
Tumblr’s Post+ subscriptions are available to anyone in the US
Tumblr is opening its paid subscription features to more users: Post+ is open to anyone in the US.
Behance adds Patreon-like subscriptions to support creators
Starting today with a small group of about two dozen artists, Adobe is allowing creators to offer access to premium projects, live streams and source files in exchange for a monthly fee.
Patreon is the next tech giant to crack down on QAnon
Patreon is cracking down on QAnon by banning accounts that peddle the conspiracy theory.
Cloudflare outage cuts off connections to Discord, DownDetector and others
Discord, Feedly and other services were unreachable for many on Friday afternoon due to an outage at Cloudflare. Cloudflare said the problem lasted for 23 minutes due to a routing issue in its backbone.
Patreon lays off 13 percent of its workforce
Patreon has laid off 30 employees or 13 percent of its workforce due to the “economic uncertainty” brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
The crowdfunded cult of Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer wouldn't exist in her current form without Patreon. That's not to say Amanda Palmer the person would dematerialize if Patreon didn't exist, but Amanda Palmer the artist would be a completely different beast. As it stands, Palmer is an independent musician churning out music videos, new songs, complete albums, blazingly honest social media diaries and bits of international activism on the daily. She's constantly online, sharing her life as a touring artist, mother, wife and modern human with more than 1 million people on Twitter alone. She responds to a shocking number of tweets. All of this is funded through Patreon. Every month, more than 15,000 individuals send some of their money to Palmer, in amounts ranging from $1 to $1,000. She takes that cash and turns it into art, bypassing restrictive corporate contracts and pop-obsessed music labels. Palmer fled the traditional system in 2010, after years of fighting for creative control over her solo albums and those of her debut band, The Dresden Dolls. So, sure, it's fair to say Amanda Palmer wouldn't exist in her current form without Patreon. It's also true that Patreon wouldn't exist without Amanda Palmer.
Crowdfunding is better than Netflix for YouTube's creep queen
One day six months ago, Christine McConnell picked up the phone and learned that her Netflix show, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, wouldn't be renewed. The production company called with the news, citing an email it had received from Netflix. McConnell had been floating in limbo since her first season wrapped and aired around Halloween last year, unsure if she'd get another chance at streaming stardom.
Inside the crazy, musical mind of Look Mum No Computer
Sam Battle, best known by his musical persona Look Mum No Computer, isn't your average YouTube star. He's built an impressive following not through traditional songwriting or perfectly edited music videos -- though he's adept at both -- but ludicrously ambitious inventions. Over the last few years, Battle has created a creepy but strangely mesmerizing Furby organ, a synthesizer fused with a classic Raleigh Chopper bicycle and a hauntingly beautiful Gameboy Triple Oscillator, which he described online, with refreshing honesty, as "basically three Arduinoboys stuck together."
Patreon splits its service to cater for different creators
Patreon is rolling out a new price plan structure. Announced today, the new system comprises Patreon Lite, Patreon Pro and Patreon Premium -- three tiers that, according to the company, are designed to better match the needs of creators.
Patreon’s 3 million supporters are good news for independent creators
Patreon has had one clear goal since it launched in 2013: to help artists, influencers and internet creators make money by letting them offer membership services directly to their fans. And that effort seems to be paying off. Today, Patreon announced there are now over three million people supporting creators on its site, of which there are more than 100,000 to date. What's also notable is that the company was able to accomplish this milestone in a rapid manner, going from two to three million supporters (aka patrons) worldwide in just one year.
