Today we’re releasing a limited-edition zine, After The Creator Economy, exploring constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online.

We spoke with twelve leading artists, thinkers, and builders about creating a more collaborative, resilient, meaningful, and democratic online creative ecosystem.

The result is a 96-page, limited-edition physical and digital zine, collaboratively produced in partnership with co—matter with help from 20+ contributors.

As part of this release, you’ll be able to support this work through Metalabel's new digital record format: a record.

What's a record?

A record is a new digital format that creates a meaningful value exchange between artists and fans around any kind of creative output — physical, digital, conceptual, performative, ephemeral, live, exclusive, mass, or niche.

Records are digital containers for creators to issue and sell editions of media, drops, invitations, experiences, and other exchanges between creators and fans within a collectible, permanent, and tradable format. 

Records reintroduce a direct way to value creative work. Without contributing millions of plastic cases to landfills, digital records bring back the tradition of paying creators fairly in exchange for an edition of their work.

AVAILABLE EDITIONS

After the Creator Economy is available as:

1. A collectible record that includes a digital zine, a voucher for a physical zine, and a collector access pass [100 editions available]

   

   

2. A physical 96-page zine only [100 editions available]

   96 pages

   240mm x 170mm

   

More about this release

Title: After the Creator Economy
Metalabel x co—matter
Catalog: R.06
Editors: Austin Robey & Severin Matusek
Description: The limited-edition publication was produced in partnership with co—matter, a research and strategy studio in Berlin.

Interviews include: Nathan Schneider, Mat Dryhurst, Samantha Marin, Pictureplane, Calum Bowden, Kyle Chayka, Amber Case, Gabriella Garcia, Nati Linares, Trebor Scholz, Ziv Schneider, and Kei Kreutler.

You can also view and download a free .pdf version here.