Lindsey Gamble

Lindsey Gamble Media LLC

Influencer Marketing & Creator Economy Consultant and Advisor 

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I’m an influencer marketing and creator economy consultant, advisor, and speaker. 

With over seven years of experience working with enterprise consumer brands on influencer marketing campaigns and a deep understanding of the creator economy, I help brands and influencer marketing platforms/agencies experiment with and enter new trends.

I've worked with brands like Tyson Foods, SharkNinja, HotelTonight, GoPro, Chobani, Wilson Tennis, Fanatics, Samsung, Mackenzie-Childs, Ford, and more. 

I write a weekly newsletter that delves into essential social media and influencer marketing news and trends, providing actionable insights for creators and marketers. Buffer named it one of the best marketing newsletters to subscribe to in 2024.

I’ve been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Voice in the Creator Economy, Business Insider as a Rising Star of the Creator Economy, and as a Top Creator Economy and Influencer Marketing Expert to Know. Hello Partner has also honored me as a Top US Partnership Marketing Changemaker.

My insights and perspectives on influencer marketing and the creator economy have also been featured in media outlets, including Business Insider, Vogue Business, AdAge, Digiday, The Information, The Drum, Marketing Brew, Social Media Today, and more.

Here are a few ways I can help you: 
🚀 Go-To-Market Strategy
📈 Influencer Marketing Strategy Development
🤳🏾Creator Acquisition 
🔍 Product & Service Offering Audits
📊 Campaign & Program Strategic Audits
🕵️‍♂️ Competitor Research & Analysis
🛠️ Influencer Technology Vetting & Selection
💼 Business & Corporate Development
🧠 Fractional Strategist
🎓 Team Training & Education 

I'm also available for:
🎤 Speaking Engagements 
🎓 Guest Lectures
📚 Workshops
🤝 Brand Partnerships/Sponsored Content (LinkedIn, Newsletter)

Reach out: business@lindseygamble.com

beehiiv made a splash this week with its Winter Release 2025 event, unveiling more than 10 new features. 

These include native podcast functionality, a link-in-bio tool, digital products, an AI website builder, web analytics, automations, paid subscriptions, dynamic content, and much more.

Beehiiv has historically been bucketed in competition with Substack, Kit, and other legacy email service providers like Mailchimp.

With the launch of these new tools, beehiiv is now competing with a much larger group of platforms and tools, including:

🖥️ Website builders like Squarespace and Wix
🎟️ Membership platforms like Patreon and Kajabi
📦 Digital product platforms like Gumroad and Shopify
🔗 Link-in-bio tools like Linktree and Beacons
📅 Scheduling tools like Calendly
🤖 AI-powered builders like Lovable

Beehiiv’s expansion into these areas reflects the current market.

Creators (and publishers) are diversifying their content formats from blogs and newsletters to podcasts, and expanding revenue streams like digital products, subscriptions, and coaching. They also need the right tools to market their work and understand the impact of it and their audiences. 

Right now, its common for many to string together multiple tools to do this, but that can be fragmented, expensive, and inefficient.

That’s why we are seeing more platforms like beehiiv push to offer all-in-one solutions for creators. 

I wrote about beehiiv’s updates, why they should be exciting for creators, and what to watch for as beehiiv moves into its next chapter. 

As beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk 🐝  puts it, the company is now a “content economy operating system” and no longer just a newsletter platform. 

You can read more in the latest edition of my newsletter: https://lnkd.in/e6niCtbJ

(Very much looking forward to testing out these features for my own newsletter.)

Creator Economy Expert | Influencer Marketing Consultant | Advisor

Here’s the creator economy roundup you need: 

🐝 beehiiv expanded beyond newsletters, adding 10+ tools including digital products, native podcast functionality, link-in-bio, and an AI website builder as it repositions itself as a content economy operating system.

✂️ Instagram's video editing app, Edits, is seeing notable growth, with weekly creator usage nearly doubling in Q3 and monthly actives up 40%.

🛒 Facebook Marketplace adds social features, letting users curate listings, invite friends, chat with sellers, and like/comment to personalize recommendations.

🎧  TikTok and Threads turn to podcasts, with TikTok launching a Podcast Network with iHeartRadio and Threads adding discovery features for podcasts.

📢 TikTok officially launched Bulletin Boards, its iteration of Instagram Broadcast Channels, giving creators a dedicated space to share updates and exclusive content.

🧵 Patreon added new discovery features, including Quips (short, Twitter-like posts) and Collabs, letting creators co-author posts and reach new audiences.

🔍 LinkedIn launched AI-powered people search, which lets Premium subscribers search for people using natural-language prompts.

🛍️ LTK launched Brand Profiles, letting brands establish their presence with creator-generated content featuring their products. 

🧠 OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT, similar to Microsoft Copilot Groups, creating a shared AI space for planning, brainstorming, and collaboration.

🌏 South Korea is considering restricting entry for foreign creators posting hateful or derogatory content online.

📊 New reports from Visa, Snap Inc., Creators 4 Mental Health, and 
Superfiliate deliver new data on how creator finance, mental health, and brand partnerships.

 Get more details, analysis, and more 👇🏾

View newsletter: Lindsey Gamble's Newsletter

I’m getting started on my annual creator economy trends and predictions piece. It’s one of my favorite things to write and I personally think it’s som

Open article: Beehiiv Moves Beyond Newsletters, Instagram’s Edits See Growth, and TikTok & Threads Turn Their Attention to Podcasts 🧰 by Lindsey Gamble • 9 min read

Beehiiv Moves Beyond Newsletters, Instagram’s Edits See Growth, and TikTok & Threads Turn Their Attention to Podcasts 🧰

This week in the creator economy 📰

📈 Netflix is building on its Spotify podcast deal, bringing video podcasts to the platform in 2026. It’s reportedly in talks with iHeartMedia and SiriusXM to secure exclusive video podcasts.

🤖 Instagram is promoting content made with Meta's AI products in the feed. Reels created with Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses and AI-generated videos from Vibes are appearing prominently in feed via carousels.

🏆 TikTok will host its first-ever U.S. Awards on December 18 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The event will livestream on TikTok and Tubi, and fans can start voting November 18 through a new in-app portal.

✂️ YouTube launched Edit with AI, a tool that helps creators turn photos and videos from their camera roll into draft Shorts they can refine and publish.  

🔍  LinkedIn is cracking down on engagement pods with new tools that identify artificial engagement, flag content internally, and limit its reach.

💬  Snap Inc. and Perplexity signed a $400M partnership to integrate Perplexity’s AI-powered search into Snapchat Chat in early 2026, giving users easy access to information.

💰  Roblox creators earned over $1 billion through the Roblox Developer Exchange in the past nine months, with the top 1,000 creators averaging $1.1 million each.

☕ Starbucks announced Juliana G. and Josiah Varghese as selections for its Global Coffee Creators Program. Both will travel the world to highlight cafes and local communities through social content for a year. 

🛍️  Best Buy and Chewy are ramping up their Creator Storefronts for the holiday season. Best Buy is adding select storefronts to its Gift Center, while Chewy partnered with 600 creators to launch storefronts.

📊 impact.com Report: Nearly 60% of brands plan to shift more of their affiliate marketing budgets to creator partnerships.

🎨  Make-A-Wish America says that creators are now the second most requested category in entertainment,  making up 33% of requests, second only to musicians.

More details and analysis on all of this in the latest newsletter. What caught your attention this week?

Lindsey Gamble is the Associate Director of Influencer Innovation at Mavrck, an all-in-one influencer marketing platform. With over five years of experience working with enterprise consumer brands on creator/influencer marketing campaigns and a deep understanding of the creator economy, Lindsey helps brands experiment and enter new trends in the creator economy

He also writes a weekly newsletter that breaks down news, insights, and trends across the creator economy, creator/influencer marketing, and social media, helping readers cut through the noise and stay up to date on the ever-evolving industries. 

Lindsey's expertise has been recognized by LinkedIn (Top Voices in the Creator Economy), Business Insider (Rising Stars of the Creator Economy), and Hello Partner (Top US Partnership Marketing Changemakers). His insights and perspective have also been featured in digital publications like Business Insider, Vogue Business, Digiday, AdWeek, Marketing Brew, The Drum, and more.

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🌐 Website: www.lindseygamble.com
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Netflix is in talks with iHeartMedia and SiriusXM to add more video podcasts to the platform. TODAY'S EDITION: Netflix seeks licensing deals for video

Why Netflix Wants Your Favorite Podcasts 🎙️

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Spotify

iHeartMedia

SiriusXM

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TikTok

Tubi

YouTube

LinkedIn

Snap Inc.

Perplexity

Roblox

Starbucks

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Best Buy

Chewy

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Make-A-Wish America

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Everyone has a different appetite for creator marketing. 🤔

Some days, you want to do it yourself; other days, you want someone else to handle it. (Insense Partner)

So why choose just one... when you can do both? 

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Your time, resources, and creator marketing needs can change at any moment. 

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Brand partnership • Creator Economy Expert | Influencer Marketing Consultant | Advisor

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Influencer marketing takes forever to figure out. But it's the fastest way to reach millions.

For years, marketers asked: does this actually work?
Influencer people kept defending their $1,500 reels.Then a few voices changed everything.

They didn't just talk.

They built it.

Shared what works, what doesn't.

We learned a lot from them.

Here are the 25 most influential voices in US influencer marketing right now.

Not theorists. Actual builders running real creator partnerships. They cover performance, content, micro campaigns, big brand deals.

Could we add more?

Yeah.

Tons of smart people in this space.

But these 25 are shaping things today.

If you work with creators, follow them.

IM Power 25 U.S.

When you hear “side hustle,” your first thought is probably making more money. And yes, that is often the top motivator for why people pick up side hustles. 💰 

Yet today, side hustles are going well beyond additional income, according to new data from Canva.

People are investing in them for creative expression, personal growth, and to turn their passions into businesses.

Plus, money isn’t the only outcome they’re getting from side hustles:

-33% gained new clients or customers
- 29% built their professional reputation or personal brand
- 28% expanded their professional network
- 17% led to consulting or freelance gigs
- 15% went full-time as creators
- 14% said their side hustle helped them get a promotion

Up until about 17 months ago, when I decided to venture out on my own, I had a side hustle of some sort since 2011: hip hop blog, freelance writing, Instagram content, personal blog, photography, newsletter, and more.

The primary reason for any of these was never money, although each did bring in income through ad revenue, brand partnerships, freelance work, licensing photos, blog link insertions, and more.

The only side hustle I ever did primarily for money was driving Uber for a couple of years, which came with plenty of funny stories.

While my side hustles eventually turned into a full-time business, I actually see the biggest impact coming from other areas. They helped me land my first social media job, meet new people and expand my network, learn beyond my day-to-day work, be a better influencer marketer, help close clients for the company I worked for, build a case for promotions, and much more.

With the workforce evolving, from companies becoming leaner and offering fewer growth opportunities to the rise of social media, AI, and other emerging technologies, side hustles are here to stay and will likely increase.

This shift will require both employees and employers to navigate this new reality.

It is easy to place the responsibility solely on employees and expect them to make sure their side hustles are not a distraction or appear to be, which is important. 

But employers also need to recognize that many of their top talent are likely to have side hustles and its likely for a number of reasons. The key is figuring out how to create space for employees to bring the skills, learnings, and insights from their “5 to 9s” into the “9 to 5s.”

More on Canva's new report, TikTok's launch of a scheduling feature for shoppable content, YouTube's test giving users more control of their algorithms, AIR Media-Tech's upcoming webinar for YouTube creators, and other creator economy and social media updates in the latest newsletter.

YouTube checks the box for a lot of things, but one big gap it has had? Direct messaging. 

The platform actually had native messaging for a few years but shut down the feature in 2019 to focus on public interactions like comments.

Now it's bringing it back. YouTube announced it's experimenting with a new native messaging feature, which it says is one of its biggest requests.

Starting in Ireland and Poland for users over 18, the feature will allow users to send Shorts, long-form videos, and live streams directly to other users. Messaging starts with an invite link. Once accepted, users can share content and chat in a dedicated space.

When YouTube had DMs, messaging across social media was not what it is today. Now it's a central part of the experience, especially on platforms like Instagram, where messaging continues to grow and is a core feature. 

85% of content shared via DMs are Reels, and nearly 700,000 Reels are shared in DMs every minute.

This growth has influenced product updates across platforms. Instagram put DMs front and center. Threads added DMs and Group Chats. TikTok and LinkedIn have enhanced messaging. Even Spotify and Airbnb have added native messaging experiences.

The timing is much more favorable for YouTube today, but adoption is not guaranteed. YouTube's social ecosystem is not as friend-centric as Instagram's, which limits natural messaging activity. Think about how many friends you are connected with on Instagram compared to YouTube. It's not even close.

But creators could benefit from this move in meaningful ways. Direct messaging opens up opportunities for creators to reach out to their most engaged fans directly. It creates new discovery paths as fans share videos with friends. And it gives YouTube additional signals to improve recommendations, potentially boosting creator reach.

Building out messaging also gives YouTube a chance to align its short-form video experiences more closely with Instagram and TikTok. The platform could add a count for how many times a Shorts has been shared via messages, which could create network effects.

This push and pull between private and public is happening across platforms.

While YouTube is expanding private interactions, Snap Inc., built on private chats, is exploring the opposite approach: more public discussions. Its new Topic Chats feature, currently being tested in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, lets users join conversations across Stories, Spotlight, and Search, inspired by how communities interact in public comments on Spotlight videos.

Whether private spaces or public forums, users want places to engage around creators, communities, and cultural moments. Sometimes private, sometimes public, platforms need to support that fluidity.

Do you see yourself using YouTube DMs ? 💬

Netflix is betting big on video podcasts and they’re not alone.

After announcing a partnership with Spotify to bring a slate of sports, culture, and lifestyle video podcasts to Netflix in 2026, the streaming giant is making other moves.

It’s reportedly negotiating exclusive deals with iHeartMedia and SiriusXM while courting more video podcasters through major talent agencies like Creative Artists Agency and United Talent Agency. 

Other platforms have been making similar bets:

📦 Amazon secured the rights to the Kelce brothers’ New Heights podcast this past summer, with select episodes available on Prime Video

 📺 Tubi just inked a deal with Audiochuck, which is home to the top true crime podcast in Crime Junkie 

Streamers have have been chasing creator content all year, but video podcasts might be the most appealing. 

They run long, have built-in audiences, and are cheaper to produce. That aligns perfectly with what platforms value: increasing viewing sessions, retaining subscribers, and lowering licensing costs compared to scripted shows.

If Netflix lands these deals, it could build a strong podcast library.  But YouTube still dominates as the biggest podcast platform.

And that brings us to the big question: with streaming platforms chasing more exclusive deals, will creators be willing to give up YouTube, which many consider their ‘Hollywood’? 

📩 More on Netflix's push for video podcasts and what it means for creators in the new edition of the latest edition of my newsletter (link in the comments).

Language dubbing is helping YouTube creators reach new audiences and drive more revenue. 🌍

But one big question remains: how do you choose which languages to dub your videos into? (AIR Media-Tech Partner)

After analyzing a dozen case studies from AIR Media-Tech, here’s what I’ve learned:

1️⃣ Start with CPM but don’t stop there

CPM is usually the first thing people look at. It matters but it is just one piece of the puzzle.

2️⃣ High CPM equals high competition

 English dominates YouTube with 1.45 billion viewers and 12 million plus creators competing for attention. Other languages often have far less competition, making smaller markets a real opportunity to stand out.

3️⃣ Low CPM doesn’t mean low income

Lower-CPM countries can have massive audiences. Take Indonesia for example, even at CPMs under $1, the scale can generate significant revenue.

🤔 So how do creators actually choose which languages to dub?

 It requires a multi-lens approach: look at a creator’s audience, regional CPMs, and content type to identify where videos might perform best.

If you need help with this, check out AIR Media-Tech. 

They have helped some of the biggest creators reach global audiences and localize their content and will share those strategies, along with insights on what is working for YouTube creators today, in an upcoming free webinar on December 3rd.

More info and registration in the comments.

Choosing Languages to Dub Your Videos (w/ AIR Media-Tech)

Here's what caught my attention across the creator economy this week:

💬 YouTube brings back messaging and is testing a way for users to share Shorts, long-form videos, and live streams with each other.

🛡️ Facebook launched a new tool to help creators safeguard their original Reels by sending notifications when their Reels may have been reused, allowing them to take action.

🎬 Instagram upgraded the Reels camera with 20-minute recording capability and a smoother editing experience for green screens and more.

🤖 TikTok now lets users choose how much AI-generated content appears on their For You Page.

⚖️ LinkedIn denies reports that gender or any other demographic information affects visibility, noting that hundreds of signals influence what appears in feeds.

📱 iHeartMedia brings a TikTok-like experience to its app with Highlights, a tab featuring short-form video clips from shows, stations, and podcasts across its network.

💵 US creator ad spend is projected to hit $37 billion this year, according to a report by the IAB. Much of this spend is going toward paid amplification rather than direct creator partnerships.

📝 The Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) now requires “relevant influencers” to register and follow a code of conduct similar to media companies.

🧾  The American Influencer Council (AIC) released a free tax guide for US-based creators in celebration of National Entrepreneurship Day. 

🤖 Agentio an AI-native platform for creator advertising, raised a $40 million Series B and plans to expand to beyond YouTube campaigns. 

Get all the details, my thoughts on what these means for creators, marketers, the ecosystem, and more in the newsletter (link in the comments).

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