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700K followers.
Millions of views.
Some brand offers: ₹5K–₹10K.
Brand budgets and access haven’t always followed.
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Creators keep reopening the same 4 tabs:
What do I post?
Which audio is moving?
What should I charge?
Where’s that invoice?
So we turned them into 4 tools.
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Creators are told to stay visible.
Post more. Engage more. Grow more.
But what happens when visibility itself becomes unsafe?
Our latest feature looks at the cost women creators in India are paying for being public online.
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10 years of creating, in 5 lessons from @anmolsachar
📌Hook the first 5 seconds.
📌Short-form helps you show up more.
📌Long-form builds deeper connection.
Brands are buying trust, not just reach.
Your audience trust can be worth more than a 2X fee.
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Was CJP influencer-led?
Creators clearly helped it travel.
Young audience.
Search spikes.
63 videos across 13 @YouTube channels.
429 flagged posts/handles in one July misinformation sample.
But reach ≠ causation.
Creators shaped visibility.
They were not the whole movement.
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A creator can be “independent” on paper and still have very little control over their business.
The issue is not whether agencies are bad.
It is whether “management” quietly becomes dependency.
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LinkedIn says original posts grew 14% YoY, knowledge-led comments grew 11%, and paid video grew nearly 30%.
The platform is becoming a publishing and business-identity layer, not only a place to search for jobs.
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Virat’s LinkedIn arrival says something bigger:
Instagram carries the fame.
LinkedIn explains the business.
Is LinkedIn becoming the second-career platform for athletes, actors and creators?
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Follower count tells a brand how big your audience looks.
@YouTube wants to help brands see who the audience actually is. 👀
It’s testing Channel Search with selected brand accounts, using opted-in creator data such as:
• unique viewers
• watch time
• age + gender
• top countries
That could make creator discovery less:
“Who has the biggest channel?”
and more:
“Who reaches the people we actually want?”
Potentially very good news for strong niche creators.
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India’s mobile story is no longer just about connectivity. It’s becoming a creator economy story. 📱🎥
At #IMC2026, @narendramodi PM, said India has moved from being a consumer to a creator, with the mobile phone now functioning as a gaming console and a creation studio.
The scale behind that shift is significant:
📡 5G has reached every district
📶 5.5 lakh+ 5G base stations
🎮 50 crore+ people are part of India’s gaming ecosystem
🎥 Content creation has grown into a multi-thousand-crore industry
🌍 Tier 2, Tier 3 and regional audiences are increasingly part of that growth
For creators, this is the real story of India’s digital infrastructure:
Better connectivity does not just create more viewers.
It creates more people who can publish, build audiences, monetise skills and turn content into a business.
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90% of @Meesho_Official active Content Commerce creators have under 10K followers.
Meanwhile, the channel’s NMV grew 152% YoY.
That’s a useful reminder:
Creator commerce doesn’t necessarily need celebrity reach.
It needs trust, relevance and someone willing to buy.
Even more telling: 81% of those creators are from non-metro India, while Tier 3/4 markets generated 66% of orders.
The next big commerce creator may have a very small follower count.
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SEBI says nearly 62% of prospective investors are influenced by finfluencers.
Now the regulator is taking investor education onto the same channels where financial advice already travels. 📱💸
Project Jagrook will use digital, social media, WhatsApp, OTT + regional languages.
Important nuance:
This is not a new finfluencer rule.
But it does show where the fight is moving.
Financial literacy is no longer happening only through official websites and PDFs.
@SEBI_Awareness wants to compete for attention in the feed too.
For finance creators, reach may get you heard.
It still doesn’t make unregulated investment advice regulated.
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AI video’s awkward problem:
Shot 1: perfect. ✅
Shot 2: same character has a new face. 😭
Shot 3: wardrobe changed.
Shot 4: apparently we’re in another city now.
Eloelo Group’s Dolphin AI is built around fixing that.
It can take one script/prompt and generate a multi-shot video of up to 60 seconds while trying to preserve the same characters, world and visual style across scenes. 🎥
Voice + music + editing are also built into the workflow.
That’s a more interesting AI-video race than “who makes the prettiest 5-second clip?”
The real prize may be making an entire usable video without stitching six tools together.
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Indian creators earning from overseas clients or platforms should check the new @fema reporting framework effective 1 Oct.
If the income qualifies as an export of services, an EDF declaration may apply through the relevant AD bank.
Exact applicability depends on the transaction, so verify with your bank/CA.
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