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Kajabi Counted Its Own Creators. The Ones Selling Several Things Earn 4.5x More.
The platform published the number. The industry turned it into advice. Here's what it can and can't tell a creator with one course on the shelf.
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Coursera Named Exactly One Instructor on Its Earnings Call. He'd Moved His Courses Over From Udemy.
Wall Street heard about Project Helix and a $115 million synergy target. Course creators should pay attention to the five-course Claude specialization mentioned in passing.
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He Spent 31 Years in Miami Fire Rescue. His $925 Course Now Sells in 47 States Without a Single Ad.
Freddie Fernandez retired running 14 fire stations. His assessment-center prep business reaches firefighters in 47 states on referrals, challenge coins and phone calls.
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A Million-Subscriber Channel Is Projected to Get 89,000 Views. That's the Median.
New ThoughtLeaders data puts a hard number on the gap between follower count and actual reach, and it should terrify anyone waiting to launch.
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He Left a $250K Software Job to Interpret Dreams. The Business Is Now Projected at $1.2 Million.
Michael Sheridan's dream interpretation school went from $125K to a projected $1.2M — and the growth lever wasn't new content.
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On December 1, Substack Starts Charging Tax at Your Checkout. There Is No Opt-Out Button.
Substack takes over sales tax and VAT on every paid subscription in 39 days. Two settings decide what your subscribers actually pay.
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Washington Just Gave 27 Million Creator Businesses an Official Box to Tick. It Says "Motion Picture and Video Industries."
The SBA's first-ever creator classification lands course sellers, coaches and membership operators inside a federal code built for film production.
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She Stopped Writing Extra Paywalled Posts. Her Paid Subscribers Now Get Her Instead.
A book coach's small October decision lines up with a pattern across solo knowledge businesses: the paywall is being rebuilt around access, not content.
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One in Five Marketers Bought B2B Creator Content This Year. On Wednesday, Someone Bought the Agency.
Billion Dollar Boy's first-ever acquisition prices a skill set course creators already own: explaining complicated things to people who buy with a budget.
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Thinkific Cut a Third of Its Staff. The Stock Jumped 72%. The Customers It's Walking Away From Are the Small Ones.
Ninety-six jobs gone, $19 million in annual savings, and a CEO saying out loud that the platform is stepping back from "very small" businesses.
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They Pay $249 a Month for the Community. The Community Is on Discord.
A reviewer found 388 paying members and just 219 posts on one Skool page. The room wasn't dead — it had moved somewhere you can't see.
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Meta's AI Will Soon Edit Your Campaigns. The Cheapest Human at Meta Costs $49.99 a Month.
Meta's Ads Manager assistant is being tested to create campaigns and move budgets on request. The paid support ladder doesn't cover Ads Manager at all.
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His Cohort Course Hit $1.9 Million a Launch. Then He Killed the Live Version.
Ali Abdaal's Part-Time YouTuber Academy sold $400,000 in a single day — and that launch was the goodbye. The reason had nothing to do with demand.
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She Gives Gen Z Career Advice. A VC Just Paid $1.5 Million for a Slice of Everything She Ever Builds.
Slow Ventures didn't buy her app, her book or her newsletter. It bought equity in the holding company above all of it.
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5,000 Udemy Instructors Just Landed Inside Coursera. Harvard Business School Came With Them.
Coursera's micro-credential catalog grew 90% in a year to more than 3,000 programs. Independent course sellers should read the partner list carefully.
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The Average Six-Figure Course Business Has 309 Customers. Not 300,000 Followers.
Kajabi's own platform data puts a number on the dream — and the arithmetic behind it says something the press release didn't.
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The Copyright Claim Was Worth $114.85. The Other Claim Was Worth $75 Million.
A Connecticut jury just showed course creators that the strongest weapon against stolen PDFs isn't copyright infringement at all.
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He Gave Away Free Posts Inside the Paywall. Patreon Says It Brought Him 840 Members.
A New Zealand webcomic creator leaned into Patreon's free short-form format. The platform's own write-up credits it with 840 new members in three months.
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Nas Daily Built a Platform for 3.5 Million Members. About 20,000 of Them Actually Pay.
The $27M Khosla round came with a number most creator-economy press releases bury: a free-to-paid rate of roughly half a percent.
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He Opened a School in 1981. A YC-Backed Startup Just Bought It — Along With the Accreditation.
Stepful has raised $105M and graduated 32,000 workers. It still had to buy a 45-year-old Missouri college to sell a degree.
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$1.39 Billion Went Into the Creator Economy. Two Companies Took Three-Quarters of It.
September's funding tracker counted 12 deals. Live selling and AI voice swallowed most of the money, and no course or membership platform made the named list.
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His Piano Course Still Makes Five Figures a Month on Autopilot. His Course About Courses Doesn't.
Gillian Perkins and Jacques Hopkins both run the same evergreen webinar funnel in two different markets. Only one of them still sells while they sleep.
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The Email Sequence Made $528,000 in Four Days. The Man Who Built It Was on His Honeymoon in the Maldives.
Kit's own case study on Ali Abdaal's business documents the evergreen fantasy in full — and then quietly explains how much work had to happen first.
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The Average Creator-Economy Check Fell From $73 Million to $6.5 Million. The Deal Count Barely Moved.
Two numbers in this month's funding data point in opposite directions. Decoding them tells you exactly which creator businesses investors still believe in.
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The Median Skool Community Charges $27 and Has 205 Members. Do the Math.
A July 2026 scrape of Skool's own Discovery list puts the typical "trending" community near $5,500 a month gross. Then the fees start.
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They'll Wire You $500,000 Against Your Revenue. The Price Is Half of It.
A New York fintech just raised $45 million to advance cash against platform income. The reported terms are worth reading twice.