Rhett and Link

“We probably ended up making, like, 25 grand off that video.”

“These are wild guesses just based on some of those numbers, but I think that we had a little bit more than doubled probably individually of what we were making, so we're probably working at around like 200,000 revenue coming in.”

“We inked a deal to do a weekly show broadcast live. For 500 dollars a show. 500 dollars a show, and we said we'll do it, we committed to doing it for a year.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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.”

“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”