Category: Creator Economy
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Many People Won’t Know Web3 Exists
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how tech and culture intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now Hey Everyone, Happy New Year! 🎉 Welcome back, and I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. It’s been almost two years since I started Digital Native, and I’m excited for…
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Developers, Culture,
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how tech and culture intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now Creators, Culture, & Crypto: State of the Union Hi Everyone 👋 , For my final piece of the year, I’m trying something new: a video presentation of a slide deck…
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Top 10 of 2021
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It’s Gen Z’s World, And We’re Simply Residing in It
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how people and technology intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now It’s Gen Z’s World, And We’re Just Living In It If there’s a lingua franca of our digital age—a common language that transcends borders—it’s emojis. Emojis are easy to dismiss…
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Down with the Gatekeepers
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how people and technology intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now Hey Everyone 👋 , On Monday, I shared a piece I wrote in The Atlantic. Rex Woodbury @rex_woodbury I wrote a piece in The Atlantic about social tokens and Web3.…
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Agile research study: How we put together $STREAM Season 1
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ Last month, we rolled out our first-ever collaborative report as a DAO — an in-depth, five-part syllabus on the state of music/Web3, assembled by over 40 contributors from our community. The report, which marked “Season 1” of our collaborative research model, spans topics from artist tooling and fan onboarding/sentiment, to music PFPs and legal challenges around…
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What Occurs When You’re the Financial investment
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how people and technology intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now Hey Everyone 👋 , I wrote a piece in The Atlantic about social tokens, Web3, and how everyone is becoming an investor. Unsurprisingly, I also found a way to work…
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Evaluating fan sentiment of music NFT drops
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ tl;dr: With the goal of developing a more objective, big-picture understanding of the state of fan sentiment around music NFTs, we developed a timeline mapping fans’ reactions to hundreds of music NFT drops on Twitter between October 2020 and November 2021. In stress-testing commonly-held industry assumptions about what social-media messaging tactics do or do not…
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Digital Economies, Video Gaming, and IP Legos
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ This is a weekly newsletter about how people and technology intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe now Hey Everyone 👋 , In December, I’ll be doing a “State of the Union” for the creator economy, including a retrospective of how we got to this point and where…
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Behind the headings: Evaluating Web3 onboarding strategies for music fans
https://www.discovery-studios.com/ tl;dr: Despite headlines about big sales and big possibilities for artists’ futures in Web3, a close examination of fan onboarding tactics suggest there will be numerous hurdles before this possibility becomes a reality. As narrative and technological friction weigh down Web2 fanbases, artists are finding support in niche, Web3-native communities — and in tactics…
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