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Morenstein: 300 live stream viewers are worth more than 300,000 YouTube views
“300 viewers that will watch you when you go live. Every time that 300 viewers is literally worth more than 300,000 views on YouTube. 100,000 percent. Because these 300 people are like, they're all ambassadors. They're sitting here for hours, dude. They didn't …”
Morenstein: Creators who drop out of school lack the chops to succeed
“Anyone who leaves school or quit school to become a YouTuber, you don't have it, buddy. I'll tell you right now, if you cannot be in school and do your YouTube, you're definitely not built for it because you're not going to compete with the type of people that…”
Morenstein: Founders must clarify business relationships with friends before finding success
“You better figure out your relationship before success, though, because the problem with Sterling and I was before we figured out what our business relationship was, success came in.”
Morenstein: Strongly critical responses signal top fan behavior
“It took me a long time to realize it, but like, that's like one of your top fans. That is the behavior of literally a top fan.”
Morenstein: Negative Game Discourse Dominates Because Satisfied Gamers Are Playing
“The people that like the game are literally playing it. So the people that don't like it don't have a competing force on Twitter to be like, no, it's great. Cause they're literally playing it.”
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time was Canada's top YouTube channel within 18 months
“Within like a year and a half, it was the number one most subscribed channel on in Canada, and within two years for a period of time, it was in the top five most subscribed in all of YouTube.”
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time co-creators spent two years in court before settling
“At the end of the day, I ended up going to court, and we ended up settling this as co-creators of the brand, and he's a guy I talk to now. He's just an old friend of mine, and his name's Sterling. We had a falling out back then. We went to court for like two y…”
Morenstein: Early YouTube MCNs guaranteed $4 CPMs while independent rates fluctuated
“Other people that I knew would sign to these MCNs that existed, these multi-channel networks, and they would guarantee people like four dollars CPM no matter what. And us, it could be sometimes 60 cents CPM to like six dollars CPM.”
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time sold 60,000 'bacon strips' t-shirts
“We made this shirt said bacon strips and bacon strips, and we sold 60,000 of that t-shirt, like of that design.”
Morenstein: Netflix Paid Epic Meal Time $60 Per Free-Trial Signup in 2011
“Netflix gave us 60 dollars us per person.”
Morenstein: Turned down $150,000 offer to fight on KSI boxing card
“Then I got offered to box on the KSI card, which is on the 27th of this month and I was offered 150,000 dollars to box one match in that card, and I was like, nah,”
Morenstein: Facebook Gaming offered an exclusive 3-year deal dwarfing Twitch income
“They offered me a contract that per month dwarfed The biggest, best month I ever had on Twitch, because it's like Facebook money, and so they gave me this deal to stream exclusively on Facebook for three years and I did that. I streamed on Facebook for three y…”