Welcome to the latest issue of Keeping It Currant, a newsletter brought to you by Social Currant & Girl and the Gov®. If you’re new here, this monthly inbox drop lives at the intersection of the creator economy and the social impact space, providing the latest need-to-know on how to navigate this rapidly evolving digital space. And since we’re doing introductions, before you scroll, be sure to pop in and say hello in the Social Currant’s Slack channel for creators, here.
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ADD TO THE CAL
Creator events to add to your cal
Welcome to LA🌴: A creator mixer by Social Currant & Double Tap Democracy
About: Social Currant & Double Tap Democracy are hosting a laid-back mixer with a bar, food, a DJ, and a photo booth for creators either from LA or passing through to connect with each other and meet orgs looking for potential paid collaborators.
When: June 25, 2026; 7:00-9:00pm
Where: LA
Creator Briefing: How America’s Expanding Mass Government Surveillance Network Undermines Our Right to Mobilize
About: In this exclusive briefing for creators in the Social Currant Ecosystem, you will hear from experts working at the intersection of civil rights and technology about the technologies being used for mass domestic surveillance, what this means for the communities and the issues you care most about, and will walk away with language and framing you can use when talking about the ways mass surveillance threatens our communities, rights, and freedoms.
When: June 25, 2026; 3:00-4:00pm
Where: Virtual
VIDCON: Know Your Worth: Setting Your Rates up for Success
About: Join the Social Currant team as they help creators [hey, that’s you!] look at their audiences, platforms, and metrics, and come up with a rate card that sets creators up for success.
When: June 25, 2026; 3:15-4:15pm
Where: VidCon [LA]
VIDCON: Influencing for Good: How Advocacy Creators Impact Democracy
About: Join creators, Jorge Alvarez, Mrs. Frazzled, Chesko [The Speech Prof], Lauren Bash, Maria Jose Hurtado-Minjock, for a conversation on how to build a good narrative and use one’s platforms to help organizations while staying true to one’s style.
When: June 26, 2026; 2:00-2:30pm
Where: VidCon [LA]
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TOOLBOX
Kits and deats to support your content
ASK Day Toolkit: In case it’s just crossing your desk, Brady United is the voice behind the ASK Day campaign, a yearly campaign focused on eliminating the number of children that are injured or die from access to unlocked guns. That day is just around the corner, with ASK Day on June 21, 2026. This toolkit from Brady United provides the need-to-know background deats, social media graphics and posts ideas, alongside other helpful assets like flyers and fact sheets to make participating both easy and fruitful. Get the toolkit here.
The Anti-authoritarian Toolkit: How do you play the player? With a playbook of course. In the case of authoritarianism, and pushing back on it, that translates to multiple strategy playbooks synthesized down to bite-sized, digestible toolkits. Naturally, the one from D-HUB that fits the analogy of when the shoe fits… for this newsletter, is this toolkit focused on digital comms. Get the toolkit here.
OPPORTUNITY BULLETIN
Creator-centric openings to go after
Apply for Sundance x TikTok’s online script writing course: Sundance and TikTok have teamed up to create a virtual, free multi-week course on script writing for the increasingly popular micro-series segment. Designed with vertical video and short viewer attention spans in mind, the course aims to run creatives through the new and best practices for developing episodes, character profiles, and more within the genre. Interested writers and writers-in-training can apply here through July 1, 2026.
Pitch yourself for paid campaigns via Social Currant: Getting paid to post about what you care about is a win for you and a win for your audience. On the Social Currant platform, creators like you are able to connect directly with leading progressive organizations to discuss paid collaboration opportunities and more. Join the Social Currant platform here to browse and apply for the latest.
Apply for the NAB Show Content Creator VIP Program: The National Association of Broadcasters puts on an annual trade show known as the NAB Show. While this year’s IRL rendition has already wrapped, the focus on the creator economy for NAB has become an all-year endeavor with the expansion of its Content Creator VIP Program, which is taking applications here.
RESOURCE ROUND-UP
Save ‘em, share ‘em
→ For the creator that forgot to put 2FA on their accounts: Not to be a fearmonger or anything of the sort, but this recent news that hackers were able to access high profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta AI for access, should give you the heebie jeebies. But since the heebie jeebies don’t actually help protect your accounts, here’s what will: two factor authentication apps, specifically these best-in-show models.
→ For the creator trying to figure out how to tap into sponsorships on Substack: There’s nothing like a nice, easy-to-read set of directions [Ikea, take note]. In the case of Substack’s Creator Kits, which lets creators build-out a media kit to share with potential advertisers within the platform’s sponsorship program, this one-sheeter style direction aid makes it clear as day on how to get things rockin’ and rollin’.
→ For the creator that wants to better monetize their Pinterest: The platform isn’t just known for a search or a scroll, it’s known for its backlinks – links that bring a user outside of the platform to learn more or make a purchase. With that in mind, Pinterest and Amazon have teamed up to enable creators that have an Amazon Storefront to integrate them into their Pinterest pages. Eligible creators with the integration will be able to feature their Amazon Storefront on their Pinterest page and will have their affiliate deats automatically added when they tag an Amazon product on their pints. Tap into the how-to here to link your Amazon Storefront .
→ For the creator that needs to stick to a strict script: Instagram has taken a feature it enabled within Edits and added it to the main Instagram recording set-up. The feature is an in-stream teleprompter tool that allows creators to simply upload a script that rolls across the screen as they record. The feature taps into a creator’s more natural cadence of recording in-app, and eases the process for recording to the script videos, whether it’s a news creator wanting to get every detail correct or a creator that needs to be word-to-word on the money for a brand deal. Overall, the in-stream capability aims to decrease the time needed to record and re-record, and also make videos feel less scripted [yes, we all saw you look slightly to the screen to the right of your camera, so sorry to tell you this].
PLATFORM UPDATES
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LINKEDIN → LinkedIn is doubling down on the creator economy. The platform has unveiled a new Creator Marketplace, giving brands a direct way to find and partner with LinkedIn’s leading thought leaders. The hub includes audience insights, reach metrics, and creator discovery tools, while also becoming the new home for LinkedIn’s content partnership offerings—including sponsored creator posts. Launching first in the U.S. and Canada, eligible creators can join through a new Monetization tab, opening fresh opportunities to turn LinkedIn influence into income.
YOUTUBE → The DMs are really having a moment – seriously, just ask IG which has been prioritizing shares on posts for that exact reason. Now, YouTube Shorts is getting into the mix of it, adding an in-app messaging feature that lets users share videos with one another and react to them. The feature not only provides a more personal and private way for content to be engaged with between users, but it also keeps users in the app [YouTube’s larger goal here].
INSTAGRAM → Instagram is giving creators more control over their profiles with a new feature that lets creators rearrange posts on their grid. The update makes it easier to spotlight top content and curate a stronger first impression for profile visitors [it also really puts the nail in the coffin for us ever getting a chronological feed back]. Creators can access the option through the post menu on their profile page.
GOOGLE → Google is giving creators a bigger spotlight in Search with the launch of Search Profiles—a customizable hub that pulls together social accounts, content, and key links in one shareable page [tbh, it kind of looks like a media kit meets an IMDB page]. Eligible creators can add a bio, connect platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X, pin featured posts, and link to websites, storefronts, and subscriptions. The feature is rolling out first to U.S.-based creators with large followings, underscoring Google’s push to bring creator content deeper into the Search experience—and to compete with the growing search capabilities of social media platforms themselves.
HEADLINES
News at a glance from ‘round the creator sphere
Mashable: What is VidCon? Everything to know about the 2026 creator convention
Social Media Today: Meta’s lax community standards have led to increased harassment
TechCrunch: Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms
Reuters Institute: Digital News Report 2026
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