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His Platform Has 280,000 Creators. The Ones Making Real Money Are the Oldest Ones.
Trybe founder Lukas Pakter says his top earners right now are older men and women — and he's paying them on sales, not views.
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YouTube Wants to Pay You for Showing Up, Not for Going Viral. One Invite Asked for 16 Shorts a Month.
A new invite-only bonus pays creators for keeping a posting schedule, and a second test drops the payout floor from $100 to $20.
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Arizona State Will Now Give You a Degree in the Thing You Sell a $997 Course About
Three universities turned audience-building into accredited coursework in a single year. Every coach selling a personal-brand program now has an unusual competitor.
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Coaching's Most Interesting New Buyer Isn't HR. It's a Workers' Comp Board.
BetterUp's new Ontario study puts free coaching in front of first responders — and puts a provincial insurer's name on the press release.
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LinkedIn Says Founders on the Platform Are Up 70%. Now It's Rebuilding the Feed Around Them.
A second feed, a creator dashboard and paid consultations booked inside the profile. For coaches, LinkedIn just changed what a post is worth.
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There's a Box to Tick in YouTube Studio. Coaches Who Miss It by January 31 Stop Getting Paid.
YouTube's doubled monetization bar got the headlines. The deadline buried underneath it is the part that actually touches your account.
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54% of Coaches Say Better Technology Is the Priority. 6% Actually Use an AI Tool.
The ICF surveyed 10,035 coaches in 127 countries. The gap between what coaches intend and what they've installed is enormous.
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LinkedIn Just Built a Way to Charge for a One-on-One Call. Inside the App.
A new feature called Advice Sessions lets verified experts sell paid consultations straight from their profile. For coaches, that changes the whole funnel.
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A Tax Firm Just Bought a Leadership Development Company. It Was Their 13th Deal to Close This Year.
Andersen Group closed its purchase of Zenger Folkman on October 15 — paid in stock, folded into a platform that also sells tax, legal and cybersecurity.
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She Didn't Launch a Course. She Co-Founded an App — and It Hit No. 34 in the App Store.
A London studio just raised $2 million to co-found software with creators instead of licensing their names. The model has implications for every expert sitting on an audience.
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59% of Coaches Expect to Earn More Next Year. They Plan to Do It Without Raising Their Prices.
The industry just hit a record $5.34 billion. Buried in the same study is a growth plan built entirely on hours, not fees.
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Meta Now Charges You to Post the Link to Your Own Webinar. Two a Month Free, Then $49.99.
Facebook Pages in the rollout get two link posts a month. Clickable Instagram links start at $49.99. And the comment trick no longer works.
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Netflix Is Now the Third Most-Named Podcast Platform in America. Apple Podcasts Is Fifth.
Sounds Profitable's new Podcast Landscape 2026 puts a streaming service that didn't carry podcasts two years ago ahead of the app the medium was named after.
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Nutrition and Exercise Are the No. 1 Thing Americans Ask AI About. That's Your Intake Call.
Gallup put a number on it: about 14 million adults skipped a provider visit after an AI answered first. The top question was diet and training.
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Dhar Mann Made Brands Say Their Creator Budget Out Loud. Advertising Week Will Track It for 12 Months.
The conference pre-qualified its buyers before anyone boarded a plane — and set a public $100 million scoreboard it has to answer for next October.
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Everyone Told You to Repurpose Everything. YouTube Just Started Cutting Reach for Channels That Repost Other People's Clips.
The October 1 change hits recommendations, not revenue — but the demonetization rules already sit underneath it, so a clip account can now lose both at once.
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The Fastest-Growing Job in Content Comes With One Rule: Never Use Your Real Name
A paid economy has quietly formed around creators hired for execution, not audience. For anyone building a personal brand, the numbers are clarifying.
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LinkedIn Now Lets Your Old Colleagues Confirm You Actually Did the Job. Coaches With a Polished Bio, Read This.
A new peer-vouching layer went live on September 23. For an industry built on one impressive line of work history, the checking is now built in.
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OpenAI Just Hired the Man Who Built Patreon's Money Machine. What He Shows Tuesday Matters to Anyone Selling a Membership.
Sam Yam spent 13 years turning audiences into recurring revenue. OpenAI just put him in charge of a brand-new division — and the first look lands September 29.
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The Median Creator-Video Viewer Is 21. Your Buyer Probably Isn't.
New Media Dynamics numbers put creator video at 26% of all US viewing time — and hand coaches an uncomfortable question about where they post.
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Twice as Many Substacks Are Getting Paid. The Paying-Reader Number Hasn't Moved.
Substack's five million paid subscriptions are now split across roughly twice as many monetizing publications as a year ago. Do the division before you launch.
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A Million People Clicked "Seems Like AI Slop." Flagged Posts Lost 40% of Their Views.
LinkedIn's new report button went off like a fire alarm in July. If your daily posts come out of ChatGPT, here's exactly where to check the damage.
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Twelve Creator-Economy Deals, $1.39 Billion. Two Companies Took Three-Quarters of It.
A funding tracker through September 2026 shows where investors actually believe — and the platform running your coaching business probably isn't on the list.
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Business Coaching Just Hit $20 Billion. The Buyer Isn't Who You're Pitching.
IBISWorld's latest numbers say the money in business coaching comes overwhelmingly from companies, not individuals paying out of pocket.
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The Recording Is Going Away. Soon Your ICF Credential Will Rest on One Mentor's Signature.
From April 2027, ACC and PCC portfolio candidates stop sending ICF a recorded session. A named mentor coach you hire signs off instead.
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X Will No Longer Pay You to Teach People How to Make Money on X
Buried in the rules of X's new creator payout program is a line that declares an entire coaching content genre unpayable.
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YouTube Just Doubled the Price of Admission. Coaches Building a Channel Have Until January.
New applicants will need 8,000 watch hours or 20 million Shorts views from February 1. The deadline that hits existing channels comes first.
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Somebody Counted 1,000 Skool Communities. The Median Price Was $27 a Month.
A full scrape of Skool's public Discovery list gives coaches a rare, real benchmark for group pricing — and exposes when the cheap plan stops being cheap.
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122,974 Coaches. And Most of Them Plan to Grow Without Raising Their Price.
The biggest study of the profession found record numbers, record revenue, and an industry betting on more hours instead of higher fees.
