Creator Generation

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Creator Generation brings you behind the scenes of the creator economy, featuring top YouTubers and experts who share the strategies, lessons, and stories behind building successful channels, growing incredible businesses, and driving the world’s biggest online video successes.

  1. 4 hrs ago

    Why pricing your membership too low is a mistake - Feat Uscreen CEO Allison Yazdian

    Allison Yazdian started in real estate, where she noticed the best agents were never the ones with the best listings. They were the ones who owned the direct relationship with their customers, so it didn't matter which brokerage they sat at. She went on to LTK and now runs Uscreen as CEO, building the infrastructure that lets creators sell to their audience without a platform standing in the middle. In this episode, Allison is direct about what fragile revenue actually looks like, and what happens when a creator effectively gets evicted from a platform they never owned. We cover the numbers she sees across thousands of channels (nearly 200 creators who have passed $1m, an average around $77k, and the maths on why 500 fans at $20 a month changes everything), why pricing too low is the mistake almost everyone makes, and why retention beats acquisition every time. She's also honest about the creator ick of asking people to pay, and how building in public gets you past it. Plus why audience size predicts far less than engagement, the Goldilocks problem of hiring too fast or too slow, and what she tells creators who launch, announce it once, and conclude memberships don't work for them. Topics covered: rented vs owned audience · memberships and recurring revenue · pricing strategy · retention and churn · getting past the transaction ick · super fans and community · scaling a creator team

    Why pricing your membership too low is a mistake - Feat Uscreen CEO Allison Yazdian

  2. 6 Aug

    Losing the TV career, keeping the skills - Feat Devin the Dad

    Devin McGovern spent over a decade producing reality TV, wrapped a show in October 2024, and never got another call. Hundreds of job applications later, not one interview. In his mid forties with two kids, the creator economy wasn't a bold pivot so much as the only place money was moving. In this episode, Devin is candid about the content that flopped first, the disastrous family dinner that led to a video hitting 8 million views in two days, and the money: zero to over $10k a month in brand deals in eighteen months, the one question he asks every inbound brand, and the thirty hour TikTok blackout that made him realise he owned none of it. Topics covered: career pivots from traditional media · transferable production skills · finding your niche · brand deal negotiation · rented vs owned audience · newsletters · treating creating as a business

    Losing the TV career, keeping the skills - Feat Devin the Dad

  3. 30 July

    Leaving CNBC and Gaining a Million Followers in a Year - Feat Uptin

    Uptin spent years as a CNBC producer, where he launched the network's international YouTube channel in 2016 and quietly noticed something awkward: the videos he shot on his own iPhone in selfie mode outperformed the ones made with a professional crew. Then the pandemic hit, he was laid off, and he had to decide whether a million-view brand name meant anything without the brand. In this episode, Uptin is specific about why he spent his severance on an editor from day one, how PR consulting in the mornings let him make content in the afternoons with no financial pressure, and how a single LinkedIn message turned into a Dubai agency he never meant to start and later sold. Plus the reason his agency deliberately had no Instagram or TikTok, why he once unfollowed Gary Vee and then told him so to his face, and his rules for delivery: trim 30% of the script, never say "hey guys", and talk like you're speaking to one person. Topics covered: starting from zero · consistency · funding the early days · accidental agencies · scaling down · hustle culture · the craft of a good story

    Leaving CNBC and Gaining a Million Followers in a Year - Feat Uptin

  4. 23 July

    Who Actually Owns Your Content? - Feat Creator Lawyer Rebecca Rechtszaid

    Rebecca Rechtszaid is a Harvard Law grad and former lead counsel for partnerships at Meta who now represents creators through her own firm. Her core message: if you're a creator, you're running an IP business whether you realise it or not, and most people only figure that out at the worst possible moment. In this episode, Rebecca breaks down the mistakes she sees over and over, from creators treating brand deals as gifts to co-creators with no paperwork discovering the camera operator legally owns the footage. We cover what the creator economy can learn from music (handshake deals, Lennon and McCartney, Prince's fight for his masters), why AI is making everything scarier (she reads TikTok's terms of service line by line), and the first legal moves every serious creator should make right now. An honest, occasionally alarming, and very practical guide to protecting the business you may not know you already have. Topics covered: creators as IP businesses · chain of title · lessons from music · AI clauses and likeness rights · trademarks · first legal steps for creators

    Who Actually Owns Your Content? - Feat Creator Lawyer Rebecca Rechtszaid

  5. 16 July

    Building a 7-Figure Business Without Chasing Views - Feat Justin Brown

    Justin Brown runs Primal Video, a channel with nearly two million subscribers that teaches creators how to actually make videos. But as Justin explains, he never set out to be a YouTuber. He walked away from a profitable production company, clients and retainers, to gamble on a channel he treats less like a creative outlet and more like a business tool. In this episode, Justin is refreshingly candid about how it all runs. We cover why he went from a team of 14 down to 4 without shrinking the business, why fun became his real North Star after building a company he grew to resent, and he doesn't hold back on the money: how affiliates quietly became his biggest revenue line (nothing to do with Amazon), how a $14 microphone click turned into a $30,000 commission, and why the email list, not the channel, is the real business behind the business. A practical, unusually open look at owning your audience and building a creator business that doesn't fall over when one platform changes its mind. Topics covered: audience ownership · email lists · affiliate marketing · revenue diversification · lean teams and AI-assisted workflows · YouTube as a business tool · always be testing

    Building a 7-Figure Business Without Chasing Views - Feat Justin Brown

  6. 9 July

    $800K on Patreon, Millions on Tour: Inside Aunty Donna's Real Numbers - Feat Georgia Mappin

    Georgia Mappin is the Managing Director of Haven't You Done Well Productions, the company behind Aunty Donna. But as Georgia explains, what looks like three guys mucking around with a camera has always been a far more deliberate operation. In this episode, Georgia is remarkably open about how it all works. We cover the philosophy of platform agnosticism, and why her business treats every revenue stream as equal, with no hierarchy between a Netflix commission and a Patreon upload. And she doesn't hold back on the numbers: what YouTube ad revenue really looks like in a year, why Patreon quietly became one of their biggest earners, how touring makes the millions that fund everything else, and why a TV show that earned a fraction of a tour was still worth a full year of the company's time. An honest, funny, and unusually transparent look at building a comedy business that refuses to be defined by any single medium. Topics covered: creator business structure · platform agnosticism · revenue transparency · the ecosystem model · creator-first IP deals · traditional media vs the creator economy · comedy as a genre-led production company

    $800K on Patreon, Millions on Tour: Inside Aunty Donna's Real Numbers - Feat Georgia Mappin

  7. 2 July

    Part 2 - From MrBeast's Strategist to Creator Business Advisor - Feat Mario Joos

    Mario Joos has been inside some of the biggest creator operations in the world - including two and a half years with the MrBeast team and a stint as fractional CEO of the Stokes Twins - and what he found working with some of these big teams may surprise you. In part 2 of our interview we get into the real revenue picture for creators - what the revenue mix looks like, why AdSense-plus-sponsorships is a ceiling, not a strategy, and what it actually looks like when a creator builds a business that generates money independent of their content output.  We also cover team structure, the CEO hiring problem, which Mario describes as the hardest thing a creator will ever do and one that even the biggest names in the industry keep getting wrong. And then there's the mindset conversation, which is where things get honest. Mario talks about obsession as a prerequisite, fear-based motivation as a real driver for high performers, and the moment he realised that the creators who don't change aren't lacking information - they're prioritising ego over their actual goal. This is part two of our conversation.  If you're building a creator business and you want to understand what the next level actually looks like, this is the episode. Topics covered: creator business structure · revenue models beyond AdSense · niche monetisation · team hiring and operations · the CEO problem · platform diversification · AI policy · mindset and motivation

    Part 2 - From MrBeast's Strategist to Creator Business Advisor - Feat Mario Joos

  8. 26 June

    From MrBeast's Strategist to Creator Business Advisor - Feat Mario Joos

    Mario Joos has been inside some of the biggest creator operations in the world - including two and a half years with the MrBeast team and a stint as fractional CEO of the Stokes Twins - and what he found working with some of these big teams may surprise you. In this episode, Mario breaks down the uncomfortable truth about large creator businesses that behind the polished content and massive subscriber counts, most operations are held together with bandage fixes and reactive hiring. The systems look impressive from the outside. Inside, it's usually a different story. We get into the real revenue picture for creators why AdSense-plus-sponsorships is a ceiling, not a strategy, and what it actually looks like when a creator builds a business that generates money independent of their content output.  We also cover team structure - the four-stage content operation that separates world-class channels from everyone else and the CEO hiring problem, which Mario describes as the hardest thing a creator will ever do and one that even the biggest names in the industry keep getting wrong. And then there's the mindset conversation, which is where things get honest. Mario talks about obsession as a prerequisite, fear-based motivation as a real driver for high performers, and the moment he realised that the creators who don't change aren't lacking information - they're prioritising ego over their actual goal. This is part one of a two part conversation.  If you're building a creator business and you want to understand what the next level actually looks like, this is the episode. Topics covered: creator business structure · revenue models beyond AdSense · niche monetisation · team hiring and operations · the CEO problem · platform diversification · AI policy · mindset and motivation

    From MrBeast's Strategist to Creator Business Advisor - Feat Mario Joos
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Creator Generation brings you behind the scenes of the creator economy, featuring top YouTubers and experts who share the strategies, lessons, and stories behind building successful channels, growing incredible businesses, and driving the world’s biggest online video successes.

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  • Creator
    Changer
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    142
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Changer Pty Ltd
  • Show Website
    Creator Generation

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