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Ricky Ray Butler & Derral Eves
Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment and data science are converging.
‘Creative Disruption’ is hosted by Ricky Ray Butler, entrepreneur, innovator, and CEO of BEN, the world’s industry leader in influencer marketing and brand integration on film and TV, and Derral Eves, the world’s leading expert on YouTube’s algorithm and an advisor to Fortune 500 companies on how they can grow digital audiences through content.
In this episode of Creative Disruption, host Ricky Ray Butler sits down with Colie Nuanez, a social media influencer and content creator, to discuss her strategies for leveraging data and analytics to build and grow her online following. With over 8 million TikTok followers and 2 million YouTube subscribers, Colie is a prime example of a new generation of creators who have honed their skills by analyzing the successes and failures of those who came before them.Throughout the conversation, Colie shares her personal journey and the insights she's gained from her own experiences. She discusses how she uses analytics to understand her audience's preferences and interests, and how this information informs the content she creates. Colie also talks about her methods for migrating her TikTok followers to YouTube and how she's been able to monetize her audience through brand partnerships and other opportunities.In addition to her current successes, Colie also shares her plans for the future, which includes launching a gaming channel as merch/exclusive content for her community, known as Colie's Club. She believes that this new venture will provide her fans with even more value and help her to continue building her brand and expanding her reach.By sharing her unique perspective and expertise, Colie provides valuable insights for anyone looking to grow their own online presence. Whether you're an aspiring influencer or an established creator, this conversation offers practical tips and strategies for leveraging data and analytics to take your content to the next level.
Kevin Langue, up and coming YouTube star, joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share his journey into growing and building his audiences and community through data. Kevin's love for acting combined with his business acumen has skyrocketed him into a well known face in the Creator community, bringing fun and entertainment to his ever growing fan base. On this episode, Kevin and Ricky Ray geek out about how to leverage AI and data to grow audiences while staying true to yourself in the creative process.
Garrett Watts, an OG YouTuber who started back in 2012, joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share how he went from working at Funny or Die to becoming a YouTube (and now TikTok) sensation. With almost 10 million followers across his social platforms, Watts creates fun content that aims to drive curiosity and wonderment. On this episode, Watts has a lively conversation with Ricky Ray about how he got started, what inspires him to continue creating content, and advice he has for new and upcoming creators.
Davis Burleson, up and coming TikTok star and host of What’s Poppin’ show, joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share how he went from a DoorDash driver in high school to amassing almost 3M TikTok subscribers in only two years! A natural in front of the camera, Davis balances his day to day as a student with being a prolific content creator, and was recently the red carpet correspondent at The Global Citizen’s Festival as well the host of the Grammys backstage stream on TikTok. On this episode, Davis has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray about his origin story, his inspirations, and what the future holds.
Dominique Barrett aka King Vader joins Ricky Ray Butler in this episode of Creative Disruption to share his evolution from a creator on Vine with 500K followers to almost 10M across his socials today. Inspired by his passion for anime, visual effects, and film, King Vader has transcended genres and is now an incredibly successful actor, director, writer, and entertainer. With a hit Netflix short collaboration and numerous projects underway, King Vader shares his origin story, and what audiences can expect to see from him as he continues to evolve as a creator and storyteller. #kingvader #creativedisruption
Dan Markham from What’s Inside joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share the channel’s origin story, and how him and his son Lincoln grew a school science project to a social media sensation with over 1.5 billion views. Today, What’s Inside has almost 10M subscribers and creates family friendly content that is not only inspirational and educational but also highly entertaining. Dan has an fascinating conversation with Ricky Ray about his family, his perspectives on platform monetization, and his interests and investments in NFTs. #creativedisruption
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking forward. #mrbeast #creativedisruption Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler. Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging. Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUA8eH81InvAPd9kNoHQtWw?sub_confirmation=1 Want more? Watch our Podcast with: Mr Beast Pt. 1 https://youtu.be/Rpdk1HTMnh0 Mr Beast Pt. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLvlgGKZlKE Mr Best Pt. 3 https://youtu.be/BAkXtberpx4 Missed an episode? Here's our playlists Youtube Influencers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS2Zwkpbko_70E40eAvzlB68QfkJzNqXo Creators Disrupting Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS2Zwkpbko_68QGQRb_cIYkILdD5DN-1Q #CreativeDisruption
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking forward. #mrbeast #creativedisruption Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler. Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
MrBeast raises $50M for charity between #TeamTrees and #TeamSeas, and is excited for the next big thing. Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking forward. #mrbeast Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler. Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking forward. #mrbeast
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Corridor Digital’s Jake Watson
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Hacksmith Industries on How to Keep Innovating
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Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking forward. #mrbeast
Jake Watson and the Corridor Digital team have successfully unlocked monetization of their data and audiences. By leveraging their own platform CorridorDigital.com, the creators have been able to truly tell authentic stories rather than just trigger an algorithm to go viral. Ricky and Jake discuss the hype around the Metaverse, NFTs, VR, and the impact these technologies have on content and audiences alike.
In this episode I sit down with Matthew Doyle, better known by his YouTube name 'Zealous'. Recently, Matthew was the lucky winner of MrBeast's "Get This Random Person 1,000,000 Subscribers" challenge. Since winning the challenge, Matthew has grown his page to over 2.6M subscribers. In the episode we chat about everything including his experience with MrBeast, how winning the challenge has changed his life, what the future holds…and maybe even some predictions on views for MrBeast's "Squid Games'.
Description: In this episode I sit down with James Hobson, founder of the YouTube channel Hacksmith Industries. James’s channel has amassed a following of over 12M, where he and his team bring fictional items from video games, movies and TV shows to life. Beginning as a mechanical engineer, James took his skills and creative thought processes to create an innovative channel that would not only please his audiences but would regularly bring these otherworldly props such as Captain America’s Electromagnetic Shield, Proto-Lightsabers, Thor’s Hammer, etc. into the real world. In this episode James and I breakdown how he grew his channel, how he continues to grow his audience after years of success and what the next wave of innovation for creators looks like.
In this episode I sit down to talk with sisters and social media personalities Ashley Nichole and Alisha Marie. With a combined 20M+ followers across all platforms, Ashley and Alisha have found creator success both together as well as individually by honing in on their particular audiences and finding sustainability in diversification. While not only do they continue to pave a way in the creator economy with their YouTube, TikTok and other social media content, but they have also began dipping their toes into new ventures such as their recently launched clothing line, Parallel Apparel. In this episode, Ashley and Alisha share with me their experiences on growing up as YouTubers, what it’s like to live and work together as sisters and their tips for aspiring content creators today.
In this episode I sit down to talk with Ben Taylor The Chief AI Evangelist At DataRobot.
In this episode I sit down to talk with Brent Rivera and Max Levine. As a content creator who has amassed a following of over 80 million across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, Brent has become a power house in the constantly evolving creator community. Working with his business partner Max Levine, who has spent years with Brent helping to build out his successful career, the two found a way to use their combined years of experience to create a data driven strategy for success across the ever-growing platform landscape. With both continued creator success and a passion to help other creators grow, Brent and Max decided to launch Amp Studios, a premier content studio and incubator for digital creators. In this episode, we dive into Brent’s creator background, Max’s creator & platform expertise and our predictions for the future of the industry landscape as we know it.
In this episode I talk with Sam Sheffer, a technologist, YouTuber, reviewer…and many other titles! Sam has paved his own path into the media landscape through his love for all things technology and using it to connect with his ever-growing audiences. From working at Engadget to The Verge to Mashable, Sam shares his story and what led him to opening his very own “Sam Sheffer Productions”. We also discuss three pieces of advice for creators craving success!
In this episode I talk with Gregg Bilson, CEO of one of the largest Prop Houses in the world, Independent Studio Services (ISS). With over 1.5M props, ISS handles the props for approximately 70% of all Hollywood productions. Not only does ISS work with media giants like Marvel, Disney and Netflix, they are one of the first prop houses to delve into digital content, working directly with creators. In this episode Gregg gives his take on why props are so important…and also shares some incredible stories of working first-hand on some of the biggest Hollywood film productions!
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In this episode we talk with Zach King an internet personality, filmmaker, and probably most know a an illusionist. Zach first went viral when he focused his attention vine developing what he called "magic vines." At this time Zack King has over 11 million subscribers on YouTube and holds the world record for most watched video on TikTok.
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In this episode we talk with Richard Hull the Founder and CEO of Pongalo, formerly know at Latin Everywhere. Rich Hull is an American media and entertainment executive, and film and television producer, who's companies control one of the largest libraries of Spanish content in the world.
In this episode Chris Moore the Hollywood movie producers returns to Creative Disruption to speak with us about the forever changing movie industry. The world pandemic forever altered the way consumers can consume big budget movies from their own homes.
In this episode we talk with Hollywood producer Lori McCreary. Lori is best know for producing the movie Invictus, and the TV series Madam Secretary. With her Data Science background from UCLA, Lori has been a pioneering the movement of bring an analytical approach to Hollywood film.
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In this episode we speak with Dave Lazar the Chief of Stage TEN where they focus in on making the next wave of live, interactive and transactional content possible with an incredible team and breakthrough technologies.
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In this episode we speak with Dave Lazar the Chief of Stage TEN where they focus in on making the next wave of live, interactive and transactional content possible with an incredible team and breakthrough technologies.
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In this episode we speak with Ben Hagarty, who went from pounding the pavement as an Iowa-based freelance content creator and musician to working alongside some of the world's biggest and most prolific social media influencers like Casey Neistat to music artist such as Jay-Z.
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In this episode we speak with Elliott Watkins aka Muselk the Executive Director at Click Management. Muselk stops by to break down what it takes to find long term success on YouTube.
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In this episode we speak with Hank Green the co-creator of VidCon and one-half of the YouTube production Vlogbrothers. Here we focus in on creator empowerment, capitalizing on content and the sustainability of current video platforms.
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In this episode we speak with Grace Watkins the Co-founder & CEO at Click Management. Her company represent the worlds biggest online gaming personalities. Their talent generate more than 700+ million views online per month.
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In this episode we speak with Larry Fitzgibbon the co-founder and CEO of Tastemade. We focus in on the success of short term content from SnapChat to the viral TikTok and how to leverage your audience for massive success.
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In this episode we talk with Mark Hoyle also known as LadBaby. Mark Began his social media Career when he created the LadBaby Blog. Mark vlogged about his life as a new dad with his wife Roxanne and his channel went viral when he created dad hacks.
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In this episode Derral Eves and Ricky Ray Butler discuss the important factors Creators and Brands should learn from each other. From a blended approach of data driven decisions, being authentic to the viewer, and creating systematic processes Creators and Brands can find massive success.
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In this episode we discuss the risks of social influencers and brands marketing. Gleam Futures’ Head of Talent Lucy Loveridge stops by to share how her industry is pivoting. For the last 7 year’s Lucy has been a liaison for social media influencers and brands. As head of talent at the UK’s top influencer agency, Lucy manages big names like Tanya Burr and Zoella. Lucy is known to - be on the pulse of what’s next of influencers.
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Jeffrey Harmon, Co Founder of VidAngel, comes to Creative Disruption to discuss the importance of making marketing decisions based on data. Come listen to Jeffrey Harmon, Derral Eves, and Ricky Ray Butler deep dive into strategies that will help you use the power of video to promote your business.
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Join us as we talk with Zack to learn how you can take your YouTube videos and make a career. With over 5 million subscribers on JerryRigEverything, Zack turned his love of repairing, into the most viewed cell phone repair channel on the internet. He found his niche by performing strength and durability tests on cell phones. With his simple explanations and brief tutorials have helped millions of people with repairs of their own.
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Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson comes to Creative Disruption to share how he has exploded on and how he grew his YouTube Channel to over 30 million subscribers and 4.7 billion views. MrBeast began mastering social media when he followed his heart creating philanthropic attention-grabbing stunts. As one of the smartest and most generous creators, MrBeast tells us what drives him everyday to continue to make new content.
When Benji's wife began creating YouTube videos in 2011. Benji saw the potential to create a massive business. He quit his job in real estate and focused his time 100% into creating online content. As they grew, Benji created his own influencer channel and has since been recognized on Forbes’ as “Top 20 Must-Watch YouTube Channels."
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Carly Incontro and Erin Gilfoy come to Creative Disruption to share their experiences of growing their social followings on Vine and YouTube. In 2015 Carly and Erin realized the importance to expand their brand and created the YouTube channel to reach a larger audience. As Vine went defunct they teamed up with the Vlog Squad to double down on YouTube to create their own vlog content. Since shifting over to YouTube Carly and Erin have surpassed over a million subscribers.
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All Things Comedy CEO/President Mike Bertolina stops by Creative Disruption to discuss the latest trends occurring with digital media. Working at Brand Entertainment Network, Mike led over 1600 digital campaigns for Microsoft, General Motors, and many other world renowned companies. Mike has been able to take his experience and provide transforming leadership for comedians to own their brand and IP content.
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Heath Hussar, vlogger extraordinaire comes to Creative Disruption to share his experience of social media success with now defunct Vine to starting all over with YouTube. Heath breaks down his tips and tricks he used to adapt his content for a new platform and how he found similar success.
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In this video Matt Stephanina shares how he grew his YouTube channel to over 11 million subscribers and was able to naturally incorporate brand advertisements into his videos. Matt began learning to dance at age 18 by watching music videos. As his expertise for music and dance grew Matt began teaching dance through YouTube tutorial videos. His YouTube channel not only connected him with many viewers across all social platforms, but with famed music stars from Taylor Swift, Snoop Dogg, and Wiz Khalifa. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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The creator of Night Media, Reed Duchscher, comes to Creative Disruption to discuss brand integration moving into social media. From managing NFL Hall of Fame players, Reed foresaw the shift occurring within social media. Reed created Night Media and now manages MrBeast, Preston Playz, and some of the most influential YouTubers. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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Derral Eves is one of the world’s top YouTube and online video marketing experts. First and foremost, though, he is a loving husband and father of five children. Derral is known as one of the top leading authorities in the creator influencer space. He works tirelessly to to stay on top of the latest online marketing trends to provide off the charts video content across all platforms. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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Preston Arsement better known as PrestonPlayz, started creating fan-worthy content at just fourteen. From there Preston has become one of the most popular faces of YouTube. His high-energy and incredible gaming skills have helped solidify him as one of the hottest influencers in Minecraft and Fortnite. Preston’s 4 YouTube channels have grown to a combined 19 million subscribers and 300 million views per month. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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The creator of LegalEagle Devin Stone comes to Creative Disruption to breakdown the legalese needed for YouTube copyright claims. As a successful legislation and trial lawyer who graduated with honors from UCLA, Devin Stone spent his time in the 9th circuit where he drafted position of public opinions. Devin found his passion helping creators navigate the legal waters of a YouTube creator. Since becoming a YouTube creator Devin has been able to grow LegalEagle from 10,000 to 500,000 subscribers in just a few months. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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Corridor Digital has amassed over 6 million subscribers by creating visually entertaining viral videos. Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer co-founded Corridor Digital in 2010, a year later Jake Watson came on as a partner. They have gone on to win several Streamys including the “Visual and Special Effects Award” in 2017. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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Deniese Davis, COO of Color Creative comes to Creative Disruption to share her intake on what's disrupting the industry. Working at Color Creative Deniese strives to provide access and opportunities for diverse and new voices. Deniese is know for successfully producing multiple low budget digital films and producing Insecure on HBO. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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Carter and Lizzy are Social Media influencers who have earned over 4.8 and 3.4 million subscribers on their YouTube channels. Their video content is best known for experiments, challenges, and vlogs. Carter and Lizzy met at Carnegie Mellon University and soon intertwined their adventurous personality with their knowledge of engineering and statistics to create fun and innovative video content. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging
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CD13: Knee deep into Hollywood Steve Sandoval Acclaimed Producer Steve Sandoval is an award winning Producer who has developed shows for HBO, Disney, NBC, and Netflix. Steve most known work is producing the live audience filmed Will & Grace. He has gone on to produce multiple series. These shows included Shake It Up, Girl Meets World and Netflix’s Fuller House. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.
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CEO of Branded Entertainment Network (BEN), Ricky Ray Butler is a passionate advocate of brand integration into social media. Ricky Ray’s influence and reach has led him to working with some of the largest companies; Microsoft, Ubisoft, and General Motors. Ricky Ray has been named in AdAge’s 40 under 40, and one of the top 100 people in influencer marketing by Influence Directory.
Listed by Forbes as one of the top 20 channels to watch. Sean Cannell cut out his niche by creating four channels. He is best known for Think Media and Video Influencers. You can find Sean giving great tips and tricks on the latest tech gear for your channel or learn from him on how to optimize and build your brand on YouTube.
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Chad and Vy have been pivoting through content from day one. Using YouTube’s analytics and studying viewer trends. They have adapted their content in order to grow their audience. They have pivoted from making channels such as Make Review, DIY, Fruit Ninja, to their latest Project Zorgo.
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Drew Baldwin is an advocate for original video programing online. A passionate and outspoken advocate of original video programing online, Drew is Founder and CEO of Tubefilter and Creator and Executive Producer of the Streamy Awards. Drew is the Executive Director of Social Media Week Los Angeles.
He chairs the New Media Committee for the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors, and proudly serves on the Interactive Media Peer Group for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmys), the New Media Council for the Producers Guild of America, and the Media Council of the Paley Center for Media.
A Los Angeles native, Drew is proud to serve on the Salon LA Programming Committee for the Getty House, the Official Residence of the Mayor of Los Angeles.
CD 8: Linkedin Native Video. Influencer Fraud. Pods, Bots and Glots!
Goldie Chan is the top LinkedIn Video creator, global keynote speaker and digital strategist. Her video channel won LinkedIn Top Voice and is the longest running daily show on the LinkedIn platform with over 4 million views and counting. She's known as the "Oprah of LinkedIn" by Huffington Post.
Her current partnerships include global brands such as WeWork, Skype and London & Partners. She also runs Warm Robots, a social media strategy agency based in Los Angeles and writes for Forbes on “Personal Branding and Storytelling in the Digital Age.”
In 2018, she represented the US in the UK as part of an inaugural Women in Tech delegation through the Mayor of London's office and is a Forbes Fellow. She is a proud member of the Producer’s Guild of America, New Media Council, Stanford University graduate and has been featured as a fresh voice in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company and more.
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Liam Chivers. Liam is a highly successful talent manager and sales specialist whose company, OP Talent, has pioneered YouTube and online influencer management in the U.K. Since founding OP Talent in 2012, Liam has educated hundreds of global brands and entertainment companies on the value and best practices of brand marketing and content promotions, utilizing the modern-day mainstream platforms of YouTube and social media. Liam has been instrumental in developing once unknown individuals into some of today’s most powerful online influencers.
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Jim Louderback. Jim is one of the most respected figures in digital media with a 20-year history of leadership at the intersection of publishing and technology. Jim currently runs VidCon as a stand-alone division of Viacom. VidCon is the world’s largest online video conference in Anaheim, Amsterdam, London and Australia. Jim joined VidCon in 2014 as editorial director of the industry track and took over as CEO in 2017. In early 2018 he played the leading role in the sale of VidCon to Viacom. Throughout his career, Jim has earned a reputation as a visionary who excels at leading startups, growth businesses and turnarounds. His most well-known role prior to VidCon was as CEO of Revision3, where he helped drive a 20x increase in viewers and a 12x increase in revenue from 2007 to 2012.
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CD 5: Content is the Modern Day Cocaine. The Power of Story Telling. The Year of Instagram Video. Talking with Jon Youshei (Product Marketing Manager of Instagram IGTV).
Jon Youshaei. Jon is a YouTube marketing guru, business writer and creator of Every Vowel, a popular workplace cartoon series called “the Dilbert for millennials.” As YouTube's Head of Creator Product Marketing, Jon worked with the platform’s stars to grow their communities and create viral content with millions of views. Today, he works at Instagram as Product Marketing Manager for their new video platform, IGTV. Jon has also been named a top marketer by Forbes and Entrepreneur.
Today we talk with Rafi Fine and Marc Hustvedt. They lead one of the most successful studios creating entertainment for YouTube. Rafi, and his brother Benny are the founders of Fine Brothers Entertainment, which operates three successful channels: “TheFineBros”, “TheFineBros2” and “React”. FBE currently produces fifteen serialized shows every week for over 30 million subscribers. Marc Hustvedt is FBE’s recently appointed CEO and an internet video veteran in his own right. Marc has an impressive track record of establishing and managing other digital-first companies, such as Tubefilter, the Streamy Awards, and Supergravity Pictures.
Caleeb Pinkett is one of the fastest rising and most influential producers in Hollywood. As Head of Overbrook Film and Television, which is the production home of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Caleeb has helped launch YouTube Premium hit Cobra Kai, Netflix breakout hit To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and the feature film I am Legend. Caleeb has also been instrumental in increasing Will and Jada’s presence on social platforms like YouTube and Facebook Watch. Caleeb is currently working on the second season of Cobra Kai as well as “Food & Familia,” an ABC television show starring Danny Trejo.
Today we talk with one of the most successful couples on YouTube. Matthew Patrick, also known as MatPat, is best known as the creator and narrator of the YouTube channels The Game Theorists, The Film Theorists and YouTube’s largest live-streaming channel, GTLive, which he co-hosts with his wife and fellow YouTube star Stephanie Patrick. Their channels are currently at 20 million subscribers and 60 million monthly views. Matthew and Stephanie, who manages the business side of their partnership, are co-owners of Theorist Media, where they use data-based methods to accelerate the growth of social media audiences, particularly on YouTube.
In this episode, we sit down with Chris Moore. Chris is one of the most successful producers in Hollywood. His films include the Oscar- award-winning Manchester by the Sea – which was one of the first Amazon films to have a theatrical release – the Oscar-award winning Good Will Hunting, and the box-office hit American Pie. Chris has also broken new ground in television and music, having co-founded Live Planet along with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Sean Bailey, and produced the Emmy-nominated Project Greenlight. Chris is currently developing the second season of The Chair, which puts burgeoning creatives in the director’s chair for the first time. Creative Disruption Podcast Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.