Community-Owned Media: How Coinage Is Reshaping the Creator Economy
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Luke Mulks Luke Mulks
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Community-Owned Media: How Coinage Is Reshaping the Creator Economy

Zack Guzman, founder of Trustless Media and host of Coinage, shares how he's using Web3 technology to transform the relationship between creators and their audiences through a community ownership model. He shares the inner workings of the Trustless Media model, and explains how their NFT holders aren't just subscribers, but rather co-owners with voting rights on content direction and the ability to receive patronage dividends from the outlet's success.

Key Takeaways:

- How Coinage helps audiences co-own the media they can consume
Ways NFT holders can vote on content direction, guest selection, and other key decisions as part of the DAO structure
- How new types of NFTs and fungible tokens are being used to help influence and show milestones for different media projects
- How breaking down barriers between creators and audiences created the powerful network effects that helped Coinage reach 100,000 YouTube subscribers
- How community members have brought unexpected value, including one member who helped Coinage become a major validator across 40 blockchain networks

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