The biggest content creator on YouTube, MrBeast announced on Monday that he’s filming a game show for Amazon’s Prime Video.
On X, he wrote: “Big news gamers I’m going to be filming the largest game show in history and releasing it on Prime Video!
Over 1,000 contestants, $5,000,000 prize, and many other world records.”Big news gamers I’m going to be filming the largest game show in history and releasing it on Prime Video!
Prime Video has leveraged big name creators to develop new shows in the past.
“It’s going to be the largest game show in history, with the most contestants any game show has ever had, with the largest cash prize in history,” MrBeast said in an interview with YouTubers Colin and Samir.
MY FIRST X VIDEO MADE OVER $250,000!
Luckily for Musk, MrBeast is a fan of his — but, business comes first.
Throughout MrBeast’s test, though, some users raised concern that the video was being treated by X as though it were an advertisement, which could possibly juice engagement.
Ryan Broderick hypothesized that videos might be wrongly labeled as ads if a pre-roll ad plays before the video, but this still causes a lot of confusion on the user end.
A representative from X did not respond for comment.
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If you agree to suffer for content, you might just be able to pay off your parents’ debt.
Of course, the contestants on Netflix or in MrBeast videos are participating voluntarily and are not in mortal danger.
And according to a study from Kaiser Health News and NPR, 41% of American adults have some form of medical debt.
The American Dream is no longer the promise that anyone can get rich if they just work hard enough.
On Sunday, December 17, the day after she and MrBeast posted their videos, Taylor had around 12,000 subscribers, and on Wednesday, December 20, she’s broken 100,000.
The top YouTuber in the U.S., MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) co-founded the new analytics platform ViewStats, which is now available in beta.
Similar to tools like Socialblade, ViewStats uses the YouTube API to unveil detailed stats about channels that both creators and their fans can see.
So, if he thinks certain metrics are a must-have for an analytics platform, they’re probably important.
Founded alongside Chucky Appleby, a creator who works with MrBeast, ViewStats is differentiating itself with this star power.
Appleby said that the platform will add more tools in the future, including thumbnail analytics tools.
