Episode
Can Brands Really Spend $37 Billion with Creators?
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- Next in Media
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- Dec 11, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 4618
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Summary
The event is about how fast the creator economy is growing and how brands are finally treating creators like a serious media channel, not a side thing. Speakers talk about the big challenges: fragmented creators across platforms, clunky/manual workflows, weak measurement, and the struggle to make creator deals work at real “ad tech” scale. They discuss new tech/platforms trying to standardize creator ad units, automate deals, and plug creator content into performance engines like Meta and YouTube ads—without killing authenticity. AI is seen as both a flood of cheap content and a huge boost for great creators who can use it as a tool. Finally, a creator (Sydney) and her manager explain how brand deals really work in practice: long-term partnerships > one-off mentions, brands need to understand her content, and legal/FTCs plus too many “cooks in the kitchen” make everything slower than it needs to be.