The beginning of the end of social media
William S. Burroughs once said, “When you stop growing you start dying.”
So are these numbers just a blip? Or are we at an inflection point for social media?
🏀 Meta getting dunk on live VR show, Johnny Depp launches celebrity NFTs, and YouTube's "unimaginable opportunity" in Web3: Content3 Weekly Wrap 🍽
It seems blindingly obvious that upgrading YouTube's product so that talent can issue their own NFTs could be a game-changer. With 2bn active users per week, uptake of Web3 by such a behemoth would likely be transformational.
Announcing Content 3.0
Well, as the games industry has shown us, there is a huge demand for imaginary worlds to which people can retreat and escape.
And I'm sure that whatever your creative discipline, the 100% created nature of these metaverses will offer innumerable ways to inspire and enlighten people around the world.
Stop selling your time. Ten steps to owning your content - and shaping your destiny!
Professional producers can find it hard to adapt to the creator economy - they are used to being paid by other people to make content for them.
However, if you want to move towards career autonomy, you should consider shifting across from selling your time, to owning your content.
Why social platforms are paying more for top content, and how creators can benefit
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg shared that Facebook will invest over $1bn dollars
[https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10113607549897721] to "reward creators for
great content they create on Facebook and Instagram through 2022"