YouTube funded 12 episodes of The Mythical Show for $100,000
Rhett McLaughlin · Mythical: Rhett and Link · Apr 8, 2024 · at 59:22
Rhett McLaughlin explains how YouTube's 2013 experimentation funding allowed Mythical Entertainment to hire full-time production staff.
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“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 have, we did things so, so cheaply. And then what would happen is, once we got into the project, we would get a lot more ambitious and realize, ah, we should have asked for it. But that, they just gave us a 100,000 dollars.”
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