Backblaze, Inc., a high-performance cloud storage platform based in San Mateo, California, has announced the integration of its B2 Cloud Storage platform with Shareio, a new platform designed to enable creators to securely monetize and protect their digital content.
Shareio’s platform addresses a notable gap in the creator economy by offering a method for securely storing, distributing, and monetizing creative assets without reliance on restrictive platforms that often impose substantial cuts or unpredictable fees. The integration combines Backblaze’s affordable, high-performance B2 Cloud Storage with Shareio’s decentralized monetization and digital rights management (DRM) capabilities, allowing creators to store their work cost-effectively while maintaining control over distribution and monetization.
Dave Simon, Sr. Media & Entertainment Alliances Director at Backblaze, stated, “Creators shouldn’t choose between affordability and control. Shareio’s approach removes the middleman friction by letting creators monetize directly from their cloud storage. Pairing their platform with B2’s transparent pricing and free egress to CDN partners, creators get storage that suits their needs.”
This platform addresses challenges for various creators, including photographers and videographers managing large asset libraries, independent studios and developers protecting intellectual property, and content creators producing generative media. Instead of uploading to centralized platforms with opaque pricing and restrictive terms, creators can store their content with Backblaze and manage monetization through Shareio’s tools, facilitating sales of downloads, rental access, or subscription models.
Charles Bronstein, co-founder and CEO of Shareio, commented, “We built Shareio to give creators agency over their work and revenue. Pairing with Backblaze was a natural choice because they share our philosophy: transparent pricing, no surprises and genuine creator control.”
The integration allows creators to store content on Backblaze B2, manage access and monetization via Shareio’s platform, and benefit from B2’s free egress when delivering content to CDN partners or end users. This architecture aims to eliminate cost surprises and limitations commonly associated with traditional cloud platforms in creator workflows.
