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Christiana

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2728 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Things started changing with streaming, with social media, with all of that, because now labels couldn't dictate it the same way. But they have found something that's been really effective now, and that is... And I think Drake did this for his latest album. It's pretty brilliant. They've gone out to everyone online, not just like quote unquote influences. You join this platform.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Things started changing with streaming, with social media, with all of that, because now labels couldn't dictate it the same way. But they have found something that's been really effective now, and that is... And I think Drake did this for his latest album. It's pretty brilliant. They've gone out to everyone online, not just like quote unquote influences. You join this platform.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

I forget the name of the platform. And essentially it sells the services of just the people online. And what happens is I can come on there and say, as Trevor, I have a campaign that I want to launch. I have $10,000. And I pay it to the service.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

I forget the name of the platform. And essentially it sells the services of just the people online. And what happens is I can come on there and say, as Trevor, I have a campaign that I want to launch. I have $10,000. And I pay it to the service.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

The service then goes out to everyone who signed up to it, who's just a regular person online and says to them, hey, find a way to play the song, find a way to make this campaign go viral. And we pay you per view. So you don't pay people who failed. It's not like putting up a billboard on the highway and hoping people respond. No, you now go, oh, wow, that was an amazing dance. Christiana did.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

The service then goes out to everyone who signed up to it, who's just a regular person online and says to them, hey, find a way to play the song, find a way to make this campaign go viral. And we pay you per view. So you don't pay people who failed. It's not like putting up a billboard on the highway and hoping people respond. No, you now go, oh, wow, that was an amazing dance. Christiana did.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

She got two million views on that. We now pay her for the two million views. And then Tracy did think something. It didn't catch on. So we don't really pay her for that. And so you are paying for performance. But what it does, though, is it creates a false idea of what trends are popular.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

She got two million views on that. We now pay her for the two million views. And then Tracy did think something. It didn't catch on. So we don't really pay her for that. And so you are paying for performance. But what it does, though, is it creates a false idea of what trends are popular.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Because now you've paid people to make a trend. And because everyone's trying to chase the money, it makes it seem like there's a trend when there is no trend. And so I'm saying people could pay.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Because now you've paid people to make a trend. And because everyone's trying to chase the money, it makes it seem like there's a trend when there is no trend. And so I'm saying people could pay.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

I did not know that.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

I did not know that.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Okay. So if people buy other people's...

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Okay. So if people buy other people's...

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Okay, I'm ready to vote. Tressie, are you ready to vote?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Okay, I'm ready to vote. Tressie, are you ready to vote?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Okay. Your vote is?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Okay. Your vote is?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Even on Twitter anymore That's true No but okay She does lives more Yes but okay Let me explain Why I'm voting no though Just so So the reason I'm voting no Is because Really because I'm set across From somebody Who I consider One of the greatest Luminaries in this space Mm-hmm I don't think that it's fair that us idiots can say more than people like that.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

Even on Twitter anymore That's true No but okay She does lives more Yes but okay Let me explain Why I'm voting no though Just so So the reason I'm voting no Is because Really because I'm set across From somebody Who I consider One of the greatest Luminaries in this space Mm-hmm I don't think that it's fair that us idiots can say more than people like that.