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Every week we spend an hour in conversation with a notable creator, discussing their approach to audience growth, monetization, and content production. Hosted by Francis Zierer (Twitter and LinkedIn). New episodes every Tuesday. This podcast is part of our newsletter, Creator Spotlight.
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- How an accidental creator built an $8.8M business ft. Tayla Cannon · 38 min · Epizoda 135Tayla Cannon is a trained physiotherapist and creator with over 223,000 Instagram followers who raised $1.1 million from Slow Ventures for her company Rebuildr. She tells Francis…
- How much do brand deals actually pay? ft. Reid Pakula · 41 min · Epizoda 134Reid Pakula oversees the influencer division at IF Management, where his team represents more than 50 creators. In this episode he tells Francis what brands really pay creators…
- From college club to $2M business ft. Dylan Huey · 45 min · Epizoda 133Dylan Huey is the 24-year-old founder and CEO of Reach, a creator network with chapters at 100 colleges and a for-profit talent, marketing and ventures business. We discuss how…
- How a data analyst became a premium B2B media partner ft. Jess Ramos · 50 min · Epizoda 132Jess Ramos is a data and AI creator with over 640,000 followers across platforms who makes B2B content for tech companies like IBM, Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce and Tableau. In…
- Building a daily newsletter to 2M+ subscribers ft. Rowan Cheung · 40 min · Epizoda 131Rowan Cheung is the founder and CEO of The Rundown, a daily AI newsletter that has seen incredible growth, reaching over 2M subscribers all while remaining profitable since day…
- Hosting the greatest events in the creator economy ft. Jacques Keyser · 40 min · Epizoda 130Jacques Keyser is the Programming Director at VidCon, where he has spent eight years building events for creators, brands, and platforms around the world. In this episode, he…
- He runs a $2.5M sports media company and pays himself $0 ft. Jack Settleman · 1 h 11 min · Epizoda 129Jack Settleman is the founder of Snapback Sports, the sports media company that started as a Snapchat account in 2017 and became one of Underdog's earliest creator partners. Jack…
- Building a $400k newsletter business ft. Fernando Caralt · 41 min · Epizoda 128On Tuesday, October 6, Creator Spotlight will be hosting our first official event in Manhattan, together with ElevenLabs. Space is very limited, so RSVP now (…
- Why live streaming is the next creator goldmine ft. Taylor Craig · 54 min · Epizoda 127Taylor Craig is the co-founder and head of content at Launch Live Now ( https://www.launchlivenow.com/ ), a live streaming production company pioneering the social media live…
- The principles of good data visualization ft. Amanda Shendruk · 53 min · Epizoda 126Amanda Shendruk is an award-winning visual journalist who's spent 15 years making charts for the Washington Post, Quartz and The Guardian, and now writes the data newsletter Not…
- The YouTuber making $250k with short form content ft. Imran Mumtaz · 54 min · Epizoda 125Imran Mumtaz is a former Amazon engineer who quit in 2022 and now creates content as Imran the Finance Engineer, with 1.7 million followers built almost entirely on short form…
- The business behind Twitter's biggest anonymous accounts ft. Zach Williamson · 1 h 2 min · Epizoda 124Zach Williamson runs Culture Crave, Latest in Space and a network of pop culture accounts with millions of followers across X, Bluesky and Instagram, selling attention to movie…
- How she makes $400k as a brand deal expert ft. Gigi Robinson · 46 min · Epizoda 123Gigi Robinson is a brand deal expert and consultant who runs Host of Influence, a professional development platform for creators who want to build real businesses. Gigi is on…
- 10 years of newsletter advice in 65 minutes ft. Dan Oshinsky · 1 h 5 min · Epizoda 122Dan Oshinsky is the founder of Inbox Collective ( https://inboxcollective.com ), an email consultancy he launched in 2019 after building newsletter programs at BuzzFeed and The…
- Turning an Instagram page into a multi-million-dollar business ft. Center Consoles Only · 48 min · Epizoda 121In this episode of Creator Spotlight Francis is joined by three of the founders of Center Consoles Only, a media business built around the boating industry. After ten years of…
- His newsletter makes $100K a year — he keeps zero ft. Seamus Hughes · 51 min · Epizoda 120Seamus Hughes is the terrorism scholar and two-time Pulitzer-winning New York Times contributor behind Court Watch ( https://www.courtwatch.news/ ), an independent newsletter…
- The 5 revenue streams of a $1M+ creator business ft. Jenn Lueke · 57 min · Epizoda 119Jenn Lueke is a short form content creator, author and newsletter publisher that focuses on providing actionable and attainable healthy recipes, meal plans, and more to her…
- He'll make $1.5M as a solo creator this year ft. Kyle Poyar · 50 min · Epizoda 118Kyle Poyar is the founder and writer of the newsletter Growth Unhinged, which has over 85,000 subscribers. He’s been running the newsletter for nearly 5 years, full time for 1.5…
- How to get brand deals in 2026 ft. AJ Eckstein · 43 min · Epizoda 117AJ Eckstein is the founder of Creator Match, an agency building creator programs for the world's biggest tech brands and matching brands with B2B creators. In this episode he…
- A newsletter writer's brutally honest growth advice ft. Evan Armstrong · 51 min · Epizoda 116Evan Armstrong is the founder and writer behind The Leverage, an independent newsletter covering the tech industry for an audience of investors, founders, and operators. In this…
