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Been talking to friends and colleagues these last few days about NOSTR and the potential it has for the creative industry.

What’s missing here is good content. Quality art, animation, design, music… There is definitely a need. For the sake of simplicity let’s lump them all under the banner of “creative”.

Right now, the venue for creatives is places like Instagram, YouTube, Spotify… all the other alternative platforms such as Oddysee, Rumble, Minds, etc., get overlooked because those platforms are - for the most part - “not what they are use too.” It’s not the stereotypical demographic for creatives.

But when these people post their work on the mainstream platforms and monetize, mainstream takes their pound of flesh. Instagram and Threads… there is no monetization, and the incentive models are definitely broken… yet people still continue to post their content there.

The opportunity for creatives, and it’s a big opportunity, is that posting to NOSTR they get to retain their data And when it comes to monetization; it is direct business-To-consumer. No middle man.

As I’ve explained it to my colleagues: Imagine a small studio (you) and you produce a short form piece. You publish to NOSTR. You make something that people like and appreciate. They ZAP you some Sats. It’s direct. You’re already monetizing. The incentive to keep getting Zaps is to continue to produce quality content to your market. You don’t even need a large audience.

Eyes open.

They’re getting it.

When the creative industry figures this out… (and NOSTR is still around)… It’s going to change things in a HUGE way.