Inside Nebula, the Creator-Owned Streaming Service

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On March 19, creator-owned streaming service Nebula announced its updated slate of scripted and unscripted original content, starting with a new division: Nebula News. To hear more about the platform's increasingly ambitious projects, Publish Press writer Nate Graber-Lipperman called up Dave Wiskus, the CEO of Nebula. You can listen to their conversation on Nebula's plans for building a "pipeline" of premium creator programming—and why Dave thinks they're best positioned to bridge the gap between traditional media/entertainment and the creator economy. Plus: Stick to the end to hear Colin and Samir's thoughts on how Nebula might disrupt our industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, one thing I say to creators often is, like, what do you want to be when you grow up?
0:04.0	Because if you think that you're still a YouTuber in 20 years, you might want to rethink
0:07.3	how you're playing this game.
0:08.7	If step one is build a successful YouTube channel and step 10 is get a Netflix deal, where
0:14.9	the hell are steps two through nine?
0:17.0	Nobody has built them yet.
0:18.5	Whoever can build a bridge between what we call the creator economy and traditional
0:23.1	entertainment and media, that's the winner.
0:25.7	That's what we're trying to be.
0:32.8	Hey, podcast listeners.
0:34.1	It's Samir.
0:34.9	Hey, everybody.
0:35.4	This is Colin.
0:36.0	And this is Nate.
0:37.1	Nate, third time back
0:38.6	on the show. Back in the seat. All right, what do we have this week? Yeah, so we're chatting about
0:44.3	Nebula. If you're not familiar, Nebula is an independent creator on streaming service
0:49.7	that ended 2023 with 680,000 paying subscribers.
0:59.5	Basically how it works is partner creators, each have their own unique nebula sign-up link.
1:02.9	Think Real Engineering, Sam Demby from Wendover Productions.
1:06.2	And when a viewer clicks through and purchases a subscription,
1:09.9	the correspondent creator receives a cut of the subscription revenue.
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