State of the Creators

A quick update on where things stand - only for the OG listeners. Make sure you subscribe to me on YouTube as that's where all the videos will go! 

SEASON FINALE! Final episode of the season is here where I have done a full on Q/A + a few of my thoughts about the guests of season one and plans for the future of the show. Thassss it.  Oh and thank you. You've been an insane audience.  Time stamps:  00:00 Intro  03:21 Do you have any funny incidents by working on so many different projects?  (@rash_eeq) 06:05 Best way to build an audience...

Tanzim Uddin is one of the co-founders of Togbog - a media company focused on broadcasting positive Bangladeshi stories to the world. What’s most impressive about Tanzim is that he’s made a few hundred videos - easily over the last year and has garnered millions of views for Togbog and has created a community out of it. Now just saying that by itself sells his skills short because he does a lot mo...

If you’ve been following the YouTube scene of Bangladesh from the earlier days, chances are you would have come across the name “Asif Bin Azad” from “Bhaibrothers LTD.”  Asif has been one of the more popular creators from the early days of YouTube entertainment in Bangladesh, has since worked on various creative projects - from having his own interview show to directing short films to launching ca...

Fahad Reaz Khan is the creative director of vrbworks - a consultancy agency for fashion brands in Dhaka. He started his creative journey as a content creator where he made videos with his sister, Raba Khan, for The Jhakanaka Project. Other than his consultancy practises, Fahad has been involved in creating many indie music videos, used to be a prominent radio jockey and has worked with various bra...

I am answering your questions about creativity, the journey, the podcast and...Manchester United apparently - I know I shouldn't have made this into an "Ask Me Anything"! After getting a few questions from some of you, I thought I would weigh in on the journey so far and my plans ahead into a Q/A episode. Enjoy!  Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3eU3O0s  Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...

In a nutshell, Lamisa Kabir is a blogger and a content creator with a focus on fashion and lifestyle. Better known as @thedamselindispute in the world of Instagram, Lamisa started her journey as a writer for her college blog, and has now built a sizeable following for her fashion specific content on Instagram. Currently based in Toronto and New York, Lamisa is pursuing a career in social media and...

Zubair Hasan is one of the more prominent artists in the Bangladesh music scene right now - he is primarily a guitarist and has been delivering the goods for popular rock band Indalo as well as Banglamotorr. Zubair started his journey into the world of music about a decade ago but his creative influence is beyond just making music. He is also a photographer, and has recently ventured into the worl...

In a nutshell - Ahmed Fahad is a designer and a coder and VP of Product at Pathao – the leading ride-sharing, on-demand logistics, and food delivery platform in Bangladesh. At age 17, he was part of the founding team at Pathao and has since helped the company scale rapidly - so much so that the company is now valued at over $100m. Five years on, he is still going strong - for as example only last...

Maleena Gomez is a Designer & illustrator and goes under the alias of Mnxsterr (pronounced Monster!)  She started her creative journey as a graduate from Charukola - one of Bangladesh’s most sought after fine arts institutions. And before becoming a full time freelancer, she was an art director and has worked with some of the biggest brand names in the world like Coca Cola, Viber, Yamaha and s...

Rumman R Kalam is the founder of Rantages - Bangladesh's first crude humor website which has now built itself into a meme empire in the country. He is also the Acting In-charge of New Media at The Daily Star - the country's largest circulating English newspaper.  While many don't consider memes to be anything serious, it is hard to deny the impact of this content form especially in...

Iftekhar Rafsan - better known as Rafsan "the Chotobhai" - has built a massive online audience with hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers in just over a year. His exponential rise came in 2019 through creating videos reviewing food from various cafes and restaurants. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Rafsan now primarily identifies as an entertainer and a video creator, but is also popu...

Saria Saguaro is an artist, a pastry chef and a prominent animal activist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has built multiple businesses around her creative passions and have now been in the scene for almost a decade now.  In this very first episode of the State of the Creators, Tawsif Akkas sits down with Saria to discuss about her creative journey, the challenges she faces as a creative (and how...

Hey - I am Tawsif Akkas and I love creating stuff for the internet. Short story long, I am a digital creative, a content consultant, and have built multiple media brands around the world.  For as long as I can remember, I have been creative. And despite getting an education in a creative field, I realized that there was no blueprint to create - especially in this fast paced digital world. The only...