(I'm republishing this oldie but goodie from a few years back, as I realized I accidentally put it back into my drafts!) Why do certain creators succeed at monetizing their fans on platforms like Patreon, Koji and Gumroad, but others fail? A grossly over-simplified conclusion is that TikTok...
"An editor, a editor, my kingdom for an editor!" Almost every creator I know is looking for an editor. Not just any editor. That one elusive hire that is a one-in-a-million find: an editor who gets their *taste*. Not just someone who trims clips, but someone who instinctively...
I’m now a few years into my journey into the creator economy. As Google's first Head of Creator Relations, then Koji's Head of Creators, I’ve learned a ton about the challenges of creators of all types and sizes. Some are similar, some very different:...
We're closer than you might think to getting the first video implementations in the exploding field of generative AI. Runway, an AI-assisted browser-based video editing suite, has been at the forefront of generative video for a while now, and they've just launched their biggest milestone yet:...
Despite technological advancements, there is one particularly fascinating bottleneck holding back the full potential of generative AI today: humans
The story of why we perceive film as moving pictures, how TVs work, and how our brains create reality.
