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“My hypothesis about the future is that there will be a premium on inefficiency.”

“I think he's probably the number one online digital media company. I don't know that, you know, I don't know what creator is going to mean in that many years. Like, I think he has the best pulse on, on online storytelling right now. And I think, you know, we s…”

“Anything in the middle is really hard, right? Like educational stuff, very hard right now. I think viewership is going to go down in the middle.”

“The first is search, and I think probably people over, maybe, maybe think about search too much. It's actually pretty nominal how many people find videos through search.”

“I just think full immersion is, like, incredibly niche and probably won't take off.”

“And I know he said now that that makes more than his channel.”

“And I think the obvious thing you recognize is that that won't be our phone soon. Right? Like, maybe it'll be glasses, maybe it'll be contact lenses, maybe it'll be like contact lenses and an earpiece, but there will be like an omnipresent nature, and that's v…”

“Probably the biggest creators, most successful creators, largely have like a 70% viewership base that's not subscribed to them, right?”

“One of the most prolific creators on YouTube right now is Ryan Traham. He can't make a video that does under ten million views, but he shoots majority of his stuff with his iPhone and just by himself.”

“The biggest problem in the creator economy is like operators. It will continue to be the biggest problem. Like, people are growing and getting more opportunities than they can handle.”

“I think AI is gonna create, like, this homogenous nature to content, where everything's gonna feel the same and that is gonna make us crave something completely unique and different”

“I had a conversation with them one time where they said their goal is to be the most trusted brand in entertainment. And I actually believe that they are, they're on track for that, where parents really trust That they can take their kids to a Dude Perfect eve…”

“Like we are friends with a lot of creators who, you know, are pushing towards that eight figure business mark. Right. And a lot of that is, is at just ad supported business. There's other creators who have launched, you know, course companies or education, dir…”

“I think the future or the present right now is growing a depth of connection with an audience rather than growing wider audiences, growing deeper. And I think that's something we're going to see a lot of as we move forward in the creator space.”

“I would say 90% Of people just said that being a creator is lonely and I want to meet other people in, in the industry and like other like-minded individuals.”

“Mustafa Suleiman from Microsoft the CEO of Microsoft AI on our show prompted a podcast that was really compelling using copilot.”

“If you've seen the Nielsen ratings of connected TV usage, YouTube's at the top at 11%”

“Like, I think there will be a moment in human history where we look back and go, that was weird that we were all hunched over these, like, black rectangles all day.”

“It happened to me and Colin recently, where it was a video of me, Colin and Mr. Beast talking about an online casino that he had started. And it was also our lips were also defaked and.”

“It's a six million. I think he's tracking to six million this year. YouTuber Academy.”

“There's 380 confirmed applications for this event represents over three hundred million followers.”