300M-user meme site Imgur raises $20M from Coil to pay creators

Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across...


An Equity deep dive on Patreon

The popular TechCrunch podcast Equity this week launched a new series called...


SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later

SoundCloud moves painfully slow for a tech company, and no one feels that pain...


Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates

Patreon is forming a patronage empire. Today it acquired white-labeled...


Patreon Lens is Snapchat for creators’ paid fans only

 Exclusive content is how creators get patrons to pay them a monthly...


Facebook acquires Source3 to get content creators paid

 Facebook is on the cusp of a big push to lure independent content creators...


Patreon gives creators CRM and Snapchat Stories clone just for fans who pay

 Ads aren’t enough to support professional online content makers. So...