Content Creation University
Auditing
BUS-401 Common core Year Four Business & Economics

Creator Economics I

Revenue models: ads, sponsorship, affiliate, memberships, products. CPM/RPM, revenue concentration risk.

Lectures
8
Total runtime
4h 41m
Attendance minimum
2h 21m
Prerequisites
None

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. Harvard i-lab | How Are You Going to Make Money? The framing question: choosing a monetization path and living with its consequences Harvard Innovation Labs 1 Ivy League 77 min
  2. YouTube Shopping: Tag & Sell Products from Your Store The transactional revenue line: affiliate and storefront sales attached directly to the content YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 3 min
  3. How much does your YouTube channel earn per THOUSAND views? Introducing: RPM! Unit economics of ad revenue: what CPM measures versus what RPM measures Creator Insider 3 Platform official 12 min
  4. Lecture 24: Advertising (MIT 14.271 Industrial Organization I) Why advertisers pay at all: the economics behind every ad-supported model MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 84 min
  5. MSI Analytics Conference 2023 – Mega or Micro? Influencer Selection Using Follower Elasticity The sponsorship market from the buyer's side: what a brand is actually paying for when it pays for reach Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative 1 Ivy League 22 min
  6. MBA Reunion Weekend 2015: Identity Loyalty Beyond platform revenue: why an audience buys what a creator sells, and what makes that revenue durable Wharton School 1 Ivy League 16 min
  7. The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power Concentration and dependence: why platform revenue is a double-edged sword MITSDM (MIT System Design & Management) 2 Peer institution 55 min
  8. Practicum · working creator How Much YouTube Paid Me in 2020 (with a million subscribers) A working creator opens her actual analytics and totals a year across every income source she has, showing Lecture 3's RPM as a number that moves month to month and Lecture 7's concentration risk as a share of one real creator's income Shelby Church P Practitioner 12 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Shelby Church — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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