Influencer Marketing
What Is Beast Industries? MrBeast's $5B Company Explained
What is Beast Industries? MrBeast's $5.2B holding company spans Feastables, Beast Games and Step, now facing a Senate Banking inquiry and two lawsuits.
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Higher Education Communications
Where the Creator Economy Goes to College: Inside the Universities Building the $500 Billion Pipeline
Syracuse just launched the first dedicated creator economy minor. MrBeast already built one with East Carolina. A dozen more schools are racing to catch up. The full landscape — and what it means for the brands that will hire from it.
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.
Content Marketing
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 2026: Beast Industries, Sidemen, Dude Perfect, Barstool, Unwell Network Ranked
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 $5.2 billion.
Influencer Marketing
AI Casting Index: 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
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
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.
Influencer Marketing
Creators Don't Cold Call
Inbound vs outbound brand deals in the creator economy. The four sources of deal flow, why inbound wins, and how MrBeast, Logan Paul, Emma Chamberlain, Justin Welsh, and Reed Duchscher run it.