Influencer Marketing
Night Media: The Talent Agency Behind the MrBeast Era
Night Media represents MrBeast, Dude Perfect, Preston, Karl Jacobs. How Reed Duchscher built the talent agency that scaled with the YouTube creator-magnate class.
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Creator Economy
The Creator Economy
A $250 billion economic class with its own platforms, payment rails, and middle-market infrastructure — and the layer where the answer engines now compete for retrieval.
Influencer Marketing
Spotter: How Creator Capital Built the Back-Catalog Economy
Spotter built the creator capital model — buying YouTube back-catalog rights upfront from MrBeast, Dude Perfect, Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud. The infrastructure layer of the creator economy.
Influencer Marketing
The Creator Holding Company Index: After Beast Industries
Sidemen, Dude Perfect, Barstool, Unwell Network, Morning Brew. Five creator holding companies indexed against the integrated vs distributed framework — the follow-up to the Beast Industries case at $5 billion.
Influencer Marketing
The Chatbox Decides Who Gets Cast
Mike Heller, CEO of Talent Resources, on the second volume of the AI Casting Index with 5W AI Communications: the chatbox doesn't count followers — it checks a documented record. MrBeast and Alix Earle cracked the top ten by building one.
Influencer Marketing
MrBeast Built a Holding Company: The Beast Industries Case at $5 Billion
A new business structure is emerging — the creator holding company — and the category now has two distinct operating models. Logan Paul runs the distributed model. MrBeast runs the integrated model. Beast Industries at $5 billion and what the two models reveal.
Influencer Marketing
The Creator Economy vs. Influencer Marketing: What's the Difference
Influencer marketing and the creator economy are not the same thing. Confusing them produces programs built on the wrong model. The strategic difference — and why it determines how brands should approach creator partnerships in 2026.
Social Media
PR for Personal Brands — MrBeast, Logan Paul, and the OnlyFans Creator Collective
Personal brand PR works when it builds operating infrastructure beyond content. MrBeast's Beast Industries holding company at $5B. Logan Paul's Prime Hydration ($1.2B) + WWE + Impaulsive. The OnlyFans creator collective at $5.80B in annual payouts. Three doctrines, three different scales.
Social Media
How YouTube PR Actually Works
YouTube PR in 2026 — the platform is a search engine, a retrieval substrate, and the second-largest source of consumer product research after Google itself. Discovery architecture, thumbnails, retention, community, and how the platform now feeds the AI engines.
CPG
Investing in Customer Experience: What MrBeast Spends $250K Per Thumbnail to Teach Every Brand
MrBeast is the most disciplined investment in customer experience in the modern creator economy. $250K thumbnail testing. Frame-by-frame retention analysis. $5B Beast Industries valuation. The CX investment case study every brand in 2026 should study.