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Somebody Sat Down and Read 90 Teachable Creator Reviews. 44 Gave One or Two Stars.
A new audit sorted 202 Trustpilot reviews by who wrote them. Among creators the complaint is almost always money — and it isn't only Teachable.
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Teachers Pay Teachers Went "AI-Free." Its Own Sellers Filed a Petition the Same Day.
Two of the biggest marketplaces for selling knowledge as a digital download decided within two weeks that the AI shortcut now costs more than it saves.
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Coursera Reports Thursday. Last Quarter It Told Wall Street Its Margins Improved Because of 'Changes to Instructor Economics.'
The Q2 shareholder letter explains the margin story in plain English. For 95,000 instructors, the mechanism behind it was a pay cut.
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"Fewer Than 15 Hours a Week" Just Cost Two Companies $1.85 Million. The Sales Team Paid Nearly Twice as Much as the Brand.
The FTC's first enforcement action against a third-party franchise sales organization sends a bill straight to the people who run the calls.
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Skillshare Closed 14 of His Classes. The Announcement Promised to "Invest in Being More Human."
A teacher who earned nearly $16,000 on Skillshare watched most of his library go dark in three weeks. The category purge is still running.
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Pinterest Let Brands Advertise Other People's Pins. Six Days Later It Took It Back.
A permission that arrived on October 7 was gone by October 13 — a reminder that the reach you built on a platform is rented, not owned.
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They Sold Beginners "Essential" Training for Up to $3,600 a Year. The FTC Just Banned Charging Them at All in Year One.
The record $225 million Amway settlement is being read as an MLM story. Read the complaint and it's a course-business story.
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"Earn Money in Your Sleep" Is Now an Official FTC Red Flag. Go Read Your Own Sales Page.
A federal consumer-education specialist just named the phrase as a scam tell. It's also boilerplate on thousands of legitimate course landing pages.
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Kajabi's Entry Plan Now Includes Zero AI Credits. Everyone Else Pays $15 Per 500.
A review published this week lays out where Kajabi's repricing actually landed: no Kickstarter tier, a Basic list cap cut by 75%, and AI on a meter.
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Spotify Put Courses in Front of 600 Million People. Then It Deleted the Catalog and Refunded Everyone.
Spotify's own help page says the course catalog came down on March 31, 2026. Six months later, the creator world still hasn't read the terms.
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Last Year 42% of Harvard's Faculty Said AI Hurt Their Courses. Now It's Two-Thirds.
Harvard has proctors, honor councils and teaching assistants, and still can't tell who did the work. Your completion certificate has none of that.
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An Alphabet With No Letter F. The CEO Says They're Already Demoting Stores Like That.
TPT's parent company confirmed it runs algorithmic tools to bury stores full of AI slop — and nobody gets a warning before the traffic goes.
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Udemy Turned Its First Profit Last Year. Instructor Payouts Fell $23 Million.
The platform's final annual filing before the Coursera merger shows what happens when the company's margin and your payout come out of the same pot.
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Gaurav Munjal Raised $876 Million. He Just Sold Unacademy for $206 Million.
India's most famous online learning company closed at 94% below its peak — and its founder published the numbers himself instead of spinning them.
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Your Media Buyer Will Soon Have to Show You the Real Ad Spend. Only If You Ask.
A new Meta developer policy takes effect February 3, 2027, forcing agencies to separate your media spend from their fees — on request.
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The FTC Says They Promised $40,000 a Year. Amway Just Agreed to Pay $225 Million.
The largest MLM settlement in FTC history reads like a legal audit of every income claim on every sales page in the knowledge business.
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The FTC Just Mailed 19,744 Refund Checks for a Coaching Program. They Averaged $91.
Zurixx sold real estate coaching for up to tens of thousands of dollars. Seven years after the lawsuit, its buyers are getting a second, much smaller check.
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Hormozi's Skool Games Link Now Redirects to a Signup Form. The Games Never Stopped.
The URL died, the leaderboard didn't, and the size of the stake behind the loudest endorsement in the knowledge business has still never been disclosed.
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Thinkific Gets 4.5 Stars From Creators Who Stay. 2.0 From the Ones Trying to Leave.
One platform, two review sites, a 2.5-point gap — and a lesson about which customers actually bother to file a rating.
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Everyone Says Skool Is a $1 Billion Company. Nobody Can Show Where That Number Came From.
Two provenance audits went looking for the source of Skool's billion-dollar valuation. They came back with a headline, a vacuum, and a lot of blogs citing each other.
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Coursera Paid $100 Million for a Third of a Company With a One-Page Website. Its Founder Chairs Coursera's Board.
Andrew Ng's LearnVector has no product, five job listings and a 2027 launch window. Coursera's cash bought it a $300 million price tag.
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Udemy Used to Have to File Every Cut to Your Pay. Since May, It Doesn't.
Three subscription pay cuts arrived with exact dates because a public company had to disclose them. Udemy deregistered on May 21. The next one comes with no filing.
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Patreon Cut 93 Jobs. Four Weeks Later It Announced 30 Features — Most Still Being Built.
The membership platform insists its business is healthy. Its answer to spooked creators is a roadmap, a short-form feed, and a rebuilt algorithm.