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MrBeast goes even BIGGER! Announces ‘Beast Games’, biggest reality competition ever, offers $5 mn as prize money

YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known by his online alias MrBeast, has announced a new reality competition called Beas tGames, in partnership with Amazon Prime Video. It will be based on the reality competitions that MrBeast regularly hosts on his YouTube channel like people from every country in the world competing to win $250,000. Competitions like this have led to MrBeast becoming the most subscribed individual on YouTube and the upcoming Beast Games could increase his popularity even more. Also Read: Oppenheimer…

After ‘Sora’ launch, YouTuber MrBeast tells OpenAI CEO Sam Altman not to make him ‘Homeless’

Popular YouTuber MrBeast, famous for his amazingly successful videos, has engaged in a humorous and thought-provoking exchange with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the new AI tool called Sora, an advanced text-to-video generator launched by OpenAI just 2 days ago .The funny exchange between MrBeast, whose real name is James Stephen Donaldson, and Altman highlighted the potential negative impact of AI technology on content creators like MrBeast. The conversation happened on X (formerly Twitter), which caught the interest of…

MrBeast made $263K from a video on X, but calls the payout ‘a bit of a facade’

MrBeast made over $263,000 in ad revenue from posting his latest video on X, but the YouTube icon says he thinks this number is “a bit of a facade.” “Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think) and thus my revenue per view is prob higher than what you’d experience,” MrBeast said in an tweet X post. MY FIRST X VIDEO MADE OVER $250,000! 😲 But it’s a bit of a facade. Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think) and thus my revenue per view is…

MrBeast posts first video on X and gets Elon Musk boost! Will it bolster X’s video-first strategy?

Ever since he took over X (formerly Twitter), billionaire Elon Musk has implemented a myriad of changes on the microblogging platform. It started with mass layoffs which saw the reduction in over 80 percent of X's workforce. Then, Musk stopped legacy verification and brought out Twitter Blue, following which Larry the Bird was phased out and Twitter was officially rebranded to X. All these changes have been introduced in a bid to make it a super app that can compete with China's WeChat, offering services such as audio,…

Why MrBeast Is Rebuffing Elon Musk

One of the world’s biggest YouTube creators has told the billionaire that the math doesn’t work for him on X. One of the world’s biggest YouTube creators has told the billionaire that the math doesn’t work for him on X. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors.…

Kovert Creative Taps Publicist Rosy Baker to Join Firm’s Talent Team – The Hollywood Reporter

Rosy Baker has started the new year with a new gig. The publicist has joined the talent team at Kovert Creative, a marketing, communications and entertainment firm. She’ll work out of Kovert’s Los Angeles office and focus on adding to the agency’s talent client roster, which includes stars like Jimmy Kimmel, Jack Black, Wanda Sykes, Amy Poehler, Colin Farrell, John Mulaney, Will Arnett, Dave Bautista, Tracy Morgan, MrBeast, Nathan Fielder, Sam Richardson, Dave Burd (aka Lil Dicky), Nicole Byer,…

For Elon Musk, 2024 is off to a rough start

Elon Musk’s New Year’s hangover is showing some staying power. While 2024 is not even 48 hours old, the ride has already been a little bumpy for the world’s richest man.Both Tesla and X/Twitter saw significant blows in the early hours of the year (starting with the final moments of 2023), with one losing its dominant position in its industry and the other being dismissed by one of the leading influencers in social media, just as reports emerged about its shrinking worth.As 2023 wound to a close, YouTuber MrBeast rejected…

MrBeast videos on X? YouTube star says ‘NO’ to Elon Musk, even a billion views won’t suffice

Will you see MrBeast videos on X? The money does not make sense, says YouTube star. In a massive rejection of Elon Musk-owned X platform, renowned YouTube sensation MrBeast, with a staggering 225 million subscribers, has declined the invitation to share his widely popular content on the tech mogul's social media platform. The rejection stemmed from MrBeast's belief that X, despite Musk's ambitions to make it an all-encompassing app, would fail to match the revenue-generating capabilities of the Google-owned YouTube.Last…

Amazon Echo Frames review, MrBeast jumps the shark and the Apple Watch gets un-banned

Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter recapping the week that was in tech. Typically, the stretch between Christmas and New Year’s tends to be on the sleepier side — but that wasn’t the case in 2023. Fortunately, the TC crew was around to document all that happened. This edition of WiR spotlights Brian’s review of the new Amazon Echo Frames, MrBeast’s bizarre TV-like game show, the Apple Watch U.S. ban and the expected release date of the Apple Vision Pro. We also cover…

MrBeast’s analytics platform ViewStats is out in beta

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 Social Blade, ViewStats uses the YouTube API to unveil detailed stats about channels that both creators and their fans can see. MrBeast didn’t become one of the highest-earning creators of all time by accident. He is meticulous about every last detail of his videos — he recently A/B tested to see if his videos perform better with a thumbnail where his mouth is…