What Comes After Social Media, Influencers and Content?

I really enjoyed reading "After The Creator Economy," which is a publication by Berlin research studio co-matter and creative publishing platform Meta Label.

The zine, which you can buy or download for free, explores what the future of the creative economy might look like. It explores sustainable alternatives to how creatives currently publish “content” on platforms owned by other people.

My favourite quote - "The creator carries on the myth of the individual creative genius, more interested in their own influence than in supporting the social and collaborative networks of which they are a part."

Over the course of 50 pages, they analyse and redefine how we create, distribute and monetize creative work. One of the big ideas is publishing content as a “Meta Label,” which is a collection of people with shared interests hosting and controlling the distribution of their own work. Loads to think about, plus it's nicely designed too.

Link here.