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creator

creator

24 3.6
A person who makes videos, posts or blogs and shares them online to build an audience
  • noun
  • /krɪˈeɪtər/
  • Texting
translation icon : creador de contenido
  • As a content creator, she focuses on producing educational videos for her online audience.
  • content creators
  • creators and performers
  • creators and consumers

Now, seven years in, creators are saying Patreon, this is crazy.

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Examples

  • Instead of authors, we're now going to pursue creators of digital content.

  • But most online course creators are stuck, frustrated, struggling, and broke.

  • Flow Plane will be individual creators with their own communities.

  • And I think that for a lot of creators, that point is now.

  • The statistics for black and brown creators are even worse.

  • Like there are very few creators who work with big brands.

  • The space was designed to move teens beyond simple consumers of digital media into creators as well.

    Academic text (2011)
  • My name is Matthew Hussey, creator of Get the Guy.

  • You've been chosen as YouTube creator on the rise.

  • - When you have diverse creators making diverse content, you get representations of experience that you never would have gotten otherwise.

Synonyms

maker
vscreator
415 1.6

A person or company that creates things such as cars and furniture

centers on creating and sharing online media not physical goods
to author
vscreator
  • Formal
41 4.2

To write a book or article

focuses on sharing digital material across platforms rather than long printed works
producer
vscreator
37 2.4

Something that makes things like food or materials

is specific to people who make and share digital work online
originator
vscreator
14 4.9

A person who creates a new idea, plan, or process

focuses on producing and distributing online material rather than inventing ideas
content creator
vscreator
  • Texting
4 3.6

A person who makes and shares videos or posts online

is the shorter more general term for the same online publishing role

Antonyms

1.8

A person who buys and uses goods or services

Compounds

22 3.7

A person or company that gives people new jobs

content creator
  • Texting
4 3.6

A person who makes and shares videos or posts online

A person who makes something together with other people

How Popular

star
1.1
influencer
  • Texting
19 3.8
creator
  • Texting
24 3.6

Surface Forms

creator singular
creators plural

Morphology

creator = create (transparent) = create + or

The sense is a modern occupational extension ('person who creates digital content') but remains a straightforward agentive derivation from 'create' + '-or'.

Etymology

Creator comes from the Latin verb creare, which means 'to make'. Today the word also names people who make and share digital work like videos, posts, or blogs, so a digital creator is simply someone who makes content for an audience.