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Content creator

Meaning in digital marketing & SEO, with examples

nounCore term

In digital marketing & SEO, content creator means: A person who regularly makes videos, posts, podcasts or other online content for an audience, often earning money from it.

In Turkish: içerik üreticisi

How it is used

Often used instead of 'influencer', especially when the focus is on the content rather than the follower count. Brands brief, hire and partner with creators; the 'creator economy' is the wider market around them.

Example sentences

  1. We gave the content creators the key messages but let them film in their own style.

  2. She's a content creator with a cooking channel and a weekly newsletter.

Common collocations

  • work with content creators
  • creator partnership
  • brief a creator
  • creator economy
  • influencerA person with a large or loyal following on social media whose opinions and recommendations can affect what their followers buy or think.
  • micro-influencerAn influencer with a smaller but often very engaged following, commonly defined as roughly 10,000 to 100,000 followers.
  • sponsored contentContent that a brand pays a creator or publisher to make or share, presented in the creator's or publisher's own style.
  • user-generated contentPhotos, videos, reviews and posts about a brand that are created by its customers or fans rather than by the brand itself.

This word in other fields

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