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LinkedIn to launch paid events for the creator economy
Internal documents indicate LinkedIn's plans to enter the paid creator event market in late 2026, starting with small-scale gated events and aiming for 4,000 annual events. The initiative addresses content loss to platforms offering monetization, seeing paid virtual events as a significant market. This positions LinkedIn as a monetization platform alongside Patreon, YouTube, and TikTok, initially with one-time tickets and later subscriptions.
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