{"id":374328,"date":"2026-07-15T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:16:09","slug":"texas-based-influencers-takeover-times-top-100-creators-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374328\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas-based influencers takeover TIME’s top 100 Creators List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin’s Joe Rogan<\/a> and Lex Fridman made TIME magazine’s inaugural list of the world’s 100 most influential digital creators, joining a slate of Texas-connected personalities <\/a>spanning entertainment, fashion, comedy and social media.<\/p>\n

TIME’s inaugural TIME100 Creators <\/a>list recognizes influencers, podcasters, entertainers and online personalities who have built massive audiences across platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Spotify and Substack. Together, the creators reach hundreds of millions of followers.<\/p>\n

Editor in Chief Sam Jacobs said the list reflects the growing influence of digital creators in shaping how people consume information and entertainment. While the list is limited to creators who primarily publish in English, it includes people from more than a dozen countries.<\/p>\n

Creators were grouped into four categories: Titans, Entertainers, Phenoms and Catalysts.<\/p>\n

Austin-based podcast host Joe Rogan landed in TIME\u2019s \u201cTitans\u201d category, with the magazine writing that \u201cfew podcasters possess the global influence and staying power\u201d that Rogan has built.<\/p>\n

TIME highlighted Rogan’s role during President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, as well as their more recent disagreements<\/a> over issues including the U.S.-Iran war. The magazine also pointed to policy developments aligned with Rogan’s interests, including the Trump administration’s executive order supporting ibogaine research.<\/p>\n

Rogan was joined in the Titans category by several Texas-connected creators, including:<\/p>\n

Several additional Texas-connected creators appeared across the remaining categories.<\/p>\n

Austin-based podcaster Lex Fridman was named a Catalyst for his influence through “The Lex Fridman Podcast,” which features conversations with political leaders, technology executives and public figures.<\/p>\n

Among his guests have been President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Elon Musk<\/a> and Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

Before becoming one of the world’s most recognizable podcast hosts, Fridman studied human-AI interaction, robotics and machine learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin’s Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman made TIME magazine’s inaugural list of the world’s 100 most influential digital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-374328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}