{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","title":"Next Biz Thing #406 brtrandpay.com","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":615,"description":"Brtr&Pay https://brtrandpay.com/\nThis episode of The Next Biz Thing explores Brtr&Pay, a freelance services marketplace and creative collaboration platform built for actors, filmmakers, content creators and freelancers. Markus looks at why talent and cash flow so rarely arrive at the same time in creative work, and how a platform that lets people barter skills for credits alongside ordinary paid gigs opens a door for those at the start of their careers. Along the way there is Stripe backed payments, category listings, badges and levels, and the very specific problem of finding a self tape reader at short notice.\nLet me describe a situation to you and see if it sounds familiar. There is an actor who needs somebody to read the other lines for a self tape audition, tonight, because the deadline is tomorrow morning. There is a film editor two streets away who has all the time in the world this evening and no work booked in. And there is a director who needs an editor, and who happens to have exactly the camera gear the actor has been trying to borrow for a month. Three people, all with something the other one needs, all with almost no money to spend, and no reliable way of finding each other. That is not a rare scenario in the creative industries. That is Tuesday.\nWelcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where we look for businesses that spot a structural problem hiding in plain sight and build something that actually addresses it. Today's company has picked up one of the oldest problems in creative work, which is that talent and cash flow almost never arrive at the same time, and it has built a marketplace designed around that reality rather than pretending it does not exist.\nThe business is Brtr and Pay, and it describes itself as a freelance services marketplace and creative collaboration platform. The line on the front of the site is direct: trade skills, sell services, or find a self tape reader. And I want to spend this...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pb0F3jmlyIfOyRlax9T63lldyNPycKwPJeWzBdTAC44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}