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YouTube Shopping added Amazon in India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt on Monday, a week after signing AliExpress in four markets. Channels with 500 subscribers can now tag Amazon products in 12 countries. YouTube's own help page says creators can't see which video or product drove an Amazon sale, and the money arrives about two months later.
ForgeGUI, an AI tool for Roblox developers, has used about $280,000 of clipping and UGC budget on Whop's Content Rewards, and its agency says the clips brought in more than a million users. One clipper says he has made more than $20,000. Spread across the 3,632 creators earning on the main campaign, the budget averages about $51 each.
X expects to cut the last Creator Revenue Sharing checks today, covering earnings through 7 September. From here, creators who want platform money apply into Original Content Rewards — and the old 5 million organic-impression gate is gone.
Original Content Rewards and subscriptions now settle through X Money in the United States. Non-U.S. creators stay on Stripe. Revenue Sharing still ends 7 September.
Combined debt and equity for creator-led media businesses. Checks typically run $500,000 to $5 million against YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and Roblox cash flows.
Affiliate network folds into Later's influencer stack. Links, commissions and the 1st/15th payout cadence stay. Company says revenue more than doubled in two years.
Companies House now warns the OnlyFans operating company overdue. The year to 30 November 2025 was due 31 August. No annual accounts of that period are on the filing history.
Existing members keep earning through the cutoff, then reapply. Payouts turn on “qualified impressions” from Premium users on the Home Timeline. X did not publish a rate or a pool percentage.
YouTube has paid $100 billion over four years and Roblox $1.5 billion in one — but YouTube's pool, spread across 3 million channels, annualizes near $8,000 each (modeled), while Roblox's top 1,000 developers averaged $1.3 million.
OnlyFans markets an 80% creator split, but its audited 2024 filing routed $497M to one owner — about what 397,000 average creator accounts earned all year.
Roblox cut 2026 bookings guidance by ~$950M to $7.33–$7.6B, then hiked the DevEx rate 42% on the same call — but only for verified-18+ US spend in R15 games.