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Dom Smales

Dom Smales

Founder of Gleam Futures, Europe's first creator management agency, now Co-Founder of GloMotion Studios and creator-economy investor.

Sep 23, 2026

8:15
How long after that did you realize that you were really onto something with Gleam?
8:19
Ooh, I think, I mean, it went at a million miles an hour right from the beginning because social media went at a million miles an hour right from the beginning.
8:30
And I had four years, like I had it away for four years because nobody else was anywhere near it.
8:36
And so I spent the first four years convincing doubting rooms about the velocity of this, the power of it, and the effectiveness of this, basically.
8:49
And so I probably realized about 2012 that it was going to really kick off.
8:55
When I... obviously the numbers were growing, both audience-wise and revenue-wise, but they were very small still.
9:03
There wasn't any really serious revenue.

28 MINS LATER

36:54
Where is Zoella?

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