creators hq

• YouTube and Creators HQ launch their first MENA creator academy in the leadup to 1 Billion Followers Summit
• Dubai wants more creators. So it’s offering to get them Golden Visas.

  Dubai has increasingly become a center of content creation, thanks in no small part to government outreach. One of its biggest moneymakers is tourism, so it wants content creators to live there and share footage of its enormous high-rises, luxury experiences, and gourmet cuisine on social media, where people might see it and book their own trips to the city.

  
• Here’s what YouTubers like Supercar Blondie, Dhar Mann, and Yes Theory get from joining Dubai’s Creators HQ

  Organizers say it's not just digital/social media content creators who qualify for Founding Membership. It's also filmmakers, photographers, musicians, designers, journalists, entrepreneurs, investors, government and policy experts, and "cultural and community leaders."

  
• Creators HQ picks 100 Founding Members to jump-start its Dubai makerspace

  Organizers say it's not just digital/social media content creators who qualify for Founding Membership. It's also filmmakers, photographers, musicians, designers, journalists, entrepreneurs, investors, government and policy experts, and "cultural and community leaders."

  
• Dubai event 1 Billion Followers Summit returns for its third year with VidCon alums and a $1 million creator award