# Community Platform Market

> A strategic comparison of Glue Up, Patreon, Common Room and Invision Community that argues buyers should choose a community business model before comparing software features. Glue Up is built around association operations, Patreon around direct creator revenue, Common Room around converting distributed behavioral signals into go-to-market action, and Invision Community around an owned, structured online destination.

## Achievements

- Glue Up says it serves more than 2,000 organizations globally.
- Patreon reports more than 300,000 creators, more than 10 million paying fans each month and more than $10 billion earned by creators since 2013.
- Invision Community has operated for more than two decades and says tens of thousands of communities have used its software.
- Common Room unifies product, CRM, social, community and customer signals into contact and organization profiles.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Common Room described its product as an AI-native go-to-market system built on unified buyer activity, identity and context.
- **2026-02** — Invision Community’s version five release notes listed editor improvements, LaTeX support and a basic Mailchimp integration.
- **2026-01** — Glue Up scheduled regional product-roadmap webinars for North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
- **2026-07** — Patreon documented a network experience that adds creator discovery while retaining a memberships-only feed for communities a user already supports.

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Last updated: 2026-08-14