What Is The Online Gig Economy? Updated for 2025

Last updated on July 11, 2025 by tonydebree 30 Comments

Updated: July 11, 2025

What is the online gig economy?

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide in 2020, the Online Gig Economy has grown enormously. What exactly is the Online Gig Economy?

In the online gig economy, instead of a regular wage, independent entrepreneurs get paid for each “online gig” they do, such as building websites, designing logos, writing blogs and repairing websites.

The online platform economy like Uber and Airbnb play an important role in the online gig economy but for people making money at home and online freelancers, online platforms like Fiverr and Upwork are as important.

I personally started to make money online from home with online gigs including writing eBooks on-demand as side-hustle in 2000 on Internet Marketing, Working At Home, Making Money Online & Online Freelancing.

More: What is the online shakeout?, Making Money In The Online Gig Economy & Saving Money In The Online Gig Economy

And even more after I quit my corporate job in 2011.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the financial crisis after the beginning of the war in Ukraine in the beginning of 2022 and The Great layoff, I had to drastically review my revenue streams and costs again. See my complete LinkedIn-profile here.

Learn how you can make money and save money with online gigs today.

Do you want to learn how you can successfully earn money and save money in the online gig economy as hybrid entrepreneur 1) next to you dayjob and/or 2) as online freelancer, digital nomad and/or working from home with online gigs? Send me this email or call me at 06-34387806 for a free complimentary consultation.

Kind regards, Tony de Bree

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About the Author: tonydebree

Tony de Bree worked in Financial Services including in corporate venturing and e-commerce for 26 years and he made the transition from banker to entrepreneur working from home and making money online with his own "online plan b" with digital products as side-hustles in 2000 and as hybrid business owner since 2011. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, he helps corporates, small business owners, startups & scaleups to define and implement the best digital survival strategy and he helps managers and employees to become a successful entrepreneur with a personal digital-right skilling plan.