Rhett McLaughlin
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Mythical Entertainment. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alongside lifelong creative partner Link Neal, he co-founded digital media company Mythical Entertainment and co-hosts the daily YouTube variety series Good Mythical Morning and the podcast Ear Biscuits. He has co-authored books including The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek and releases solo music under the moniker James and the Shame.
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2said about them ↓ Everything Rhett McLaughlin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Christian comedy has lower standards than traditional comedy clubs
“We had this safety net when you do things in that Christian comedy and Christian conferences... And the standards are so much lower. You don't have to be as good.”
Rhett and Link publicly stepped away from Christianity in 2020
“20 20 was the first year where we kind of told our, is our coming out stories, like, hey, we're not Christians anymore”
Making decisions merely sets up future decisions, not expected outcomes
“Our philosophy has always been pick a direction and go. Make the best decision that you can, but just know that all you're really doing is setting yourself up for another decision to be made in the future, and the outcome isn't going to be what you envisioned.”
Keeping college comedy secular enabled Rhett and Link's YouTube career
“Well, and that calculation, which was kind of accidental, is honestly the reason that we're sitting here talking to you today, because it was the fact that we were making comedy that could be divorced from that Christian setting. And just some of those sketche…”
Rhett and Link joined YouTube after fans reuploaded their videos
“We only did it because people started taking our videos from our website and uploading them to YouTube, and they were getting thousands of views versus hundreds of views, and we were like, oh, we should do this on purpose.”
Rhett and Link's 2007 YouTube sponsorship charged $2,000 upfront and $20 CPM
“With the help of my dad, I, like, put together a little contract where it was, hey, you give us 2000 dollars up front to make this music video, and then we have a 20 dollar CPM.”
Rhett and Link made $25,000 from a 2007 sponsored cornhole video
“We probably ended up making, like, 25 grand off that video.”
Rhett and Link charged Alka-Seltzer $42,000 for a 2008 video sponsorship
“When we came back with 42,000 dollars, because it was 2000 per video, because we were like, we don't want to tell them too much, like, they're asking for 21 videos, but like, we gotta keep this affordable”
Mr. Safety advised Rhett and Link to charge $10,000 per sponsorship
“And I remember him telling us, Never accept less than 10,000 dollars for a sponsored video, and we were like, oh man, I think people might say no, but we started saying that and started getting yeses”
Orabrush paid $300 to sponsor Good Mythical Morning's first episode
“They pay 300 dollars to be the sponsor of that first episode.”
YouTube funded 12 episodes of The Mythical Show for $100,000
“We were like, 30 minutes of content times 12. We have to hire a team to help us do this. And we, like, worked the numbers, and it came to, like, 92,000 dollars. And then we just, like, well, I guess we should just round up to a 100,000 dollars. We just didn't …”
Good Mythical Morning eclipsed all prior Rhett and Link content by 2016
“In that 2014, 20 15, 20 16, though, that three year period, Saw Good Mythical Morning eclipse everything that we had ever created.”
Mythical Entertainment scaled its staff from five to roughly 100 employees
“And so, you know, I actually, I don't know exactly what the graph is in terms of how the team grew, but it certainly feels like it grew from that five to around a hundred or so Pretty geometrically.”
Rhett and Link initially avoided YouTube because they had a website
“And people were asking us at the time, in, in 2005, early 2006, people would say, why don't you guys have a YouTube? And we'd be like, because we have a website. You know, YouTube is for people who can't make their own server.”
Rhett and Link earned $8,000 per episode on The CW
“I actually think that, if I recall correctly, we each got paid 8000 dollars per episode. So by doing eight episodes, we each increased our annual salary by 50% from what we were getting.”
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Good Mythical Morning's retention came from authentic friendship, not stunts
“And I think that we started to realize that what kept people coming back was that we were, they, we were letting them in on, ah, our friendship.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Rhett's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Mythical Entertainment | 1 | 16 | 100% 2/2 | full record on How I Built This → |