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Mastercard just partnered with MrBeast — what co-brand deals mean for creators
A payments giant is building cards around a creator's audience. Here is how these deals work, who benefits, and what creators should actually watch.
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The creators of South Park built a partnership on speed
Trey Parker and Matt Stone turned a fast, cheap production loop and retained ownership into one of adult animation's most durable businesses.
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Publishing a children's book — How to publish a children's book: agents, formats, and costs
Publishing a children's book usually means agent first, publisher second. The routes, the formats, the costs, and what Wonderbly's 8-million-book run proves.
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Creators spotify — How streaming pays: what music creators earn on Spotify
Spotify's payout machine explained: streamshare, recording and publishing royalties, why no per-stream rate exists, and what the 2025 payout numbers show.
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Digital rights: What creators actually sign away when they post online
A plain-language guide to licensing, platform terms of service, and the digital rights writers and artists keep — or hand over — with every upload.
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Publishing a book on Amazon: the setup, pricing and metadata decisions that matter
KDP is free to use and pays up to 70% on ebooks — but the royalty you get depends on choices you make before you hit publish.
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How to break into publishing jobs without moving to New York
The industry's entry points have drifted away from one city. Here is where the work actually is now, and how to reach it from wherever you live.
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Syracuse's 'CUSE Creator Con returns Oct. 22-23 — what the creator economy looks like when a university builds the syllabus
The second annual conference from the first academic center of its kind is themed "Owned and Operated" — and its research findings arrive Friday.
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Entertainment lawyers now treat the creator economy as the business model, not the sideshow
At Deadline's first LA Law Summit, the panel's argument was structural: unmediated audience access changes who captures value — and the legal establishment has noticed.