The Creator Economy: Setting the Stage
The Daily Punch
Punchbowl News
4.6 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by YouTube. In 2007, YouTube had a radical idea that shouldn't have been so radical. |
| 0:07.5 | What if creators earned a real share of the value they create? By sharing advertising revenue directly |
| 0:13.4 | with creators, YouTube helped empower anyone to build a business, generate income, and hire employees, |
| 0:20.4 | establishing the creator economy. |
| 0:22.8 | In 2024, YouTube's creative ecosystem supported more than 490,000 full-time equivalent jobs |
| 0:29.7 | in the U.S., according to research from Oxford Economics. |
| 0:33.8 | Learn more about YouTube's impact at YouTube.com slash how YouTube works. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello and welcome to our first special edition podcast for the Punch Bowl News |
| 0:57.3 | creator economy series. I'm your host, Max Cohen, and today I'm joined by our tech reporter |
| 1:02.8 | Ben Brody to talk about his first installment of this very exciting series looking at the |
| 1:08.0 | growing number of content creators and the impact they're having on the |
| 1:11.9 | U.S. economy. Thank you to YouTube for making this project possible, and please check out the |
| 1:16.8 | full project at punchwell. News, our website. Ben, thanks for being on the show. And tell us a |
| 1:22.4 | little bit about who you spoke to for the first installment of the creator economy series. Thank you so much for having |
| 1:30.0 | me. So it was a really fun moment to do this feature because the creator caucus just launched |
| 1:39.5 | Congresswoman Yvette Clark, Democrat from New York, and Congresswoman Beth Van Dine, Republican from Texas, they joined together to put this together. |
| 1:47.8 | It's just the two of them so far, but they think that they're going to get some sign on pretty soon. |
| 1:53.0 | We had an extended sit down with Congresswoman Clark and talked about a whole bunch of issues that she wants to talk about for creators. |
| 2:02.8 | But it is this interesting moment where there are a few members of Congress who you have who really understand this space, |
| 2:08.9 | both as a business issue, as an artistic issue, and then of course as a political issue. |
| 2:14.1 | And then you have a lot of folks who I think are going to be on the receiving end of some |
| 2:18.1 | education from Clark and Van Dyne and all the creators that they're going to be bringing here to |
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