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- TechCrunch
A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he's building his own competitor.
Dribbble has permanently banned dozens of designers from its platform following a new effort to pivot to a marketplace and chase monetization. This includes one of the platform's most well known designers, Gleb Kuznetsov, founder of the San Francisco-based design studio Milkinside. Dribbble deleted his account with its over 210 million followers because he shared his contact information with prospective clients through the platform in violation of its new rules. Remarked Kuznetsov in a post on X, 'I brought 100,000+ monthly users. 15 years of work. 12,000+ shots. All instantly deleted, because a client asked for my email. One warning. No appeal.' Fed up with the changes at the company, which helps product, UX, web, and other digital designers showcase their portfolios and find new clients, Kuznetsov says he's been talking to investors about launching a competitor. Totally agree with @jondschubert . I loved @dribbble. I brought 100,000+ monthly users. 15 years of work. 12,000+ shots. All instantly deleted, because a client asked for my email. One warning. No appeal. They didn't care about the community. Just their 3% cut. Dribbble is… — Gleb Kuznetsov (@glebich) July 29, 2025 Shortly after his social media post, Dribbble users expressed their shock and anger over the decision, crediting Kuznetsov as one of their biggest inspirations and lamenting that the platform would make such a misguided move. Dribbble, meanwhile, says Kuznetsov was actually warned multiple times that he was violating the new rules and the email was the final notice. Dribbble's pivot to a marketplace The issue has to do with a more recent policy change first announced on March 17, 2025. Techcrunch event Tech and VC heavyweights join the Disrupt 2025 agenda Netflix, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Sequoia Capital — just a few of the heavy hitters joining the Disrupt 2025 agenda. They're here to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don't miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch Disrupt, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech — grab your ticket now and save up to $675 before prices rise. Tech and VC heavyweights join the Disrupt 2025 agenda Netflix, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Sequoia Capital — just a few of the heavy hitters joining the Disrupt 2025 agenda. They're here to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don't miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch Disrupt, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech — grab your ticket now and save up to $675 before prices rise. San Francisco | REGISTER NOW In an email shared in March with Dribbble's some 750,000 approved designers — meaning those who are authorized to communicate with others on the platform — the company said it was no longer allowing designers to share their contact information with prospective clients until after their client sent payment through its platform. The company positioned this change as one meant to protect designers from non-payment, as well as one that allows Dribbble to continue to sustain its business. The announcement was also posted to social media and the company blog. Image Credits:Dribbble However, Kuznetsov claims that non-payment isn't a very common problem, and really, this update is about Dribbble attempting to take a larger cut of designers' business. Dribbble doesn't dispute that. Before the policy change, Dribbble made money in one of two ways. Starting in September 2024, Dribbble began pivoting to a marketplace that connected designers and clients. Designers could communicate freely on the platform and then either share a 3.5% revenue cut on clients they converted, or they could pay for a Pro subscription to skip the rev share. In March, the company tightened the rules further, saying that anyone finding clients on Dribbble would need to offer the platform a cut of their revenue. 'It went from it was optional to use our transactional features to it was required for non-advertisers to use our transactional features, if they were on Dribbble, to find clients,' explains Dribbble CEO Constantine Anastasakis, in an interview with TechCrunch. 'If a user is on Dribbble to find inspiration or to get feedback on their work, or to talk shop with their peers, none of this affects them,' he added. Image Credits:Dribbble The exec, who joined the company after working at direct-to-consumer lender Lower, video marketplace Pond5 (exited to Shutterstock), and freelancer marketplace Fiverr, was hired last April to pivot Dribbble into a marketplace. While the company is profitable under parent company Tiny, it's still a small 20-person team and isn't reliant on venture backing to serve its 7.5 to 10 million monthly unique visitors. 'Dribbble was something that really accelerated our business dramatically back in the day,' Kuznetsov told TechCrunch. Before Dribbble, there was no platform where designers could share their work wth others, he says. It helped designers receive feedback that came specifically from their peers and allowed newer designers to learn from those at the top of the industry. Kuznetsov is now part of the latter group. At Milkinside, Kuznetsov has worked with companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Scandinavian Airlines, United Airlines, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes-Benz, and other large companies in the Bay Area. As a result, he likely didn't feel that Dribbble would risk banning him for not abiding by the new terms. Anastasakis essentially confirmed this to be true. He told TechCrunch that Kuznetsov received 83 work inquiries since the new terms rolled out in March, and responded to 61. In each message, the site shows a warning that reminds users that contact details should not be shared before project payment. However, Kuznetsov shared his contact information in six messages, which would have displayed a stronger warning at that time. Image Credits:Dribbble Image Credits:Dribbble The company then followed up with a warning email on July 22 about his repeated terms-of-service violations, which informed him he was risking permanent suspension. Kuznetsov told us he didn't see this email initially, but Dribbble says it tracked that the email was opened three times before his suspension. 'I believe that Dribbble — it was their goal to hurt me so I can spread that [news] so they can give a harsh lesson to everyone who tries [to break the rules],' Kuznetsov says. Dribbble's CEO Anastasakis confirmed as much to TechCrunch. 'There's there's really no conceivable way in which he did not realize that what he was doing risked permanent suspension of his accounts,' Anastasakis told us. 'I think that ultimately it was that he believed that we wouldn't take action against a designer of his caliber,' he continued. 'As a side note, I actually think that he's done us a big favor as far as getting the word out about how seriously we take the terms.' For Kuznetsov, or any designer who was banned for similar reasons, the only option to come back to Dribbble is by joining as an advertiser, which requires a minimum campaign budget of $1,500 per month for at least three months. A new competitor to Dribbble emerges? Kuznetsov has decided to forge his own path, saying that he's hurt by Dribbble's change. 'It's not going to be a copycat of Dribbble,' he says of his pending startup. Instead, it will be a resource for designers that will also leverage AI. While there has been a lot of backlash about AI models training on creatives' work without compensation, Kuznetsov believes there's a use case for the technology in terms of inspiration, creation, and design. Image Credits:Gleb Kuznetsov 'It's a big hole right now in the market…Everybody's doing AI startups, but nobody's really doing AI startups for designers,' Kuznetsov notes. 'AI is something that really can elevate our ability to create, and make it on a much higher level of quality. It's going to help us to not only earn more money and grow, but also create something we never even thought was possible to create without a specific skill set.' Kuznetsov says he expects to have an MVP (minimum viable product) ready in three or four months. However, he notes the goal is not to 'kill' Dribbble, even though investors offered him money to do so. 'It's not like that. I'm trying to do something good for the community because I'm a designer. So I know how painful it is to be a designer in this world,' says Kuznetsov. 'We need to be really smart about how we invest our time — how we give our best and give our life to other platforms. Diversification of that investment should be something that everyone should be thinking about,' he adds.
CBS News
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- CBS News
Traffic affected as 79th Street Causeway Bridge stuck open in North Bay Village
The 79th Street Causeway Bridge in North Bay Village is stuck in the open position, affecting traffic Monday afternoon. Chopper 4 video showed traffic stalled in both directions. Authorities told CBS News Miami they are expecting maintenance crews to arrive. Drivers are being urged to avoid the area. This developing story will be updated as soon as more information is made available.
Associated Press
3 minutes ago
- Associated Press
Post to Coast: New York Post plans a California newspaper
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Post is launching a California tabloid newspaper and news site next year, the company announced Monday, bringing an assertive, irreverent and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple media landscape to the Golden State. In the process, it is creating a 21st-century rarity: a new American newspaper with a robust print edition. Adding another title to Rupert Murdoch 's media empire, The California Post is setting out to cover politics, local news, business, entertainment and sports in the nation's most populous state, while drawing and building on the venerable New York paper's national coverage. Plans for the Los Angeles-based paper call for a print edition seven days a week plus a website, social media accounts and video and audio pieces. 'There is no doubt that the Post will play a crucial role in engaging and enlightening readers, who are starved of serious reporting and puckish wit,' Robert Thomson, chief executive of Post corporate parent News Corp., said in a statement. In typically brash and punchy Post fashion, he portrayed California as plagued by 'jaundiced, jaded journalism.' It enters at a bumpy moment for its industry However bold its intentions, the venture is being launched into a turbulent atmosphere for the news business, particularly for print papers. More than 3,200 of them have closed nationwide since 2005, according to figures kept by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. The online world spawned new information sources and influencers, changed news consumers' tastes and habits and upended the advertising market on which newspapers relied. 'While it's true the media landscape is challenging, The New York Post has been finding success through its unique voice, editorial lens and quality coverage. That same formula is tailor-made for California,' said the New York Post Media Group. It includes the Post and some other media properties. California, with a population of nearly 40 million, still has hundreds of newspapers, including dailies in and around Los Angeles and other major cities. But the nation's second-most-populous city hasn't had a dedicated tabloid focused on regional issues in recent memory, according to Danny Bakewell, president of the Los Angeles Press Club. 'It's really an untested market here,' said Bakewell, who is editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Sentinel, a weekly focused on the city's Black population. 'L.A. is always ready for good-quality news reporting, and particularly in this moment when so many other papers are shrinking and disappearing, it could be a really unique opportunity.' The Post is a unique beast There is no U.S. newspaper quite like the 224-year-old New York Post. It was founded by no less a luminary than Alexander Hamilton, the country's first treasury secretary, an author of the Federalist Papers, the victim of a duel at the hands of the vice president and the inspiration for the Broadway smash 'Hamilton.' Murdoch, News Corp.'s founder and now its chairman emeritus, bought the Post in 1976, sold it a dozen years later, then repurchased it in 1993. The Post is known for its relentless and skewering approach to reporting, its facility with sensational or racy subject matter, its Page Six gossip column, and the paper's huge and often memorable front-page headlines — see, for example, 1983's 'Headless Body in Topless Bar.' At the same time, the Post is a player in both local and national politics. It routinely pushes, from the right, on 'wokeness' and other culture-war pressure points, and it has broken such political stories as the Hunter Biden laptop saga. The Post has an avid reader in President Donald Trump, who gave its 'Pod Force One' podcast an interview as recently as last month. In recent years, the Post's website and such related sites as have built a large and far-flung digital audience, 90% of it outside the New York media market, according to the company. With the Los Angeles readership second only to New York's, The California Post 'is the next manifestation of our national brand,' Editor-in-Chief Keith Poole said in a statement. He'll also be involved in overseeing the California paper with its editor-in-chief, Nick Papps, who has worked with News Corp.'s Australian outlets for decades, including a stint as an L.A.-based correspondent. The company didn't specify how many journalists The California Post will have. ___ Associated Press writer Jake Offenhartz contributed from Los Angeles.
