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Head of Content. Building Media Companies. Prev @AuVodka

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Joined July 2009
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I'm noticing a trend in the info space. The operators who are growing all stopped treating content as a marketing task and started treating it as a business inside the business. What that looks like: - Dedicated team (thumbnail designer, editor, copywriter, strategist) - Real budget - Weekly output cadence - Someone who owns it that isn't the founder Meanwhile the operators who are dying are still doing it the old way. Founder shoots a video when they feel inspired, posts it, hopes it works, and moves on. That model worked in 2021. But in 2026, the good content creators are separating from everyone else at a rate I've never seen before.
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MrBeast reveals he and 4 YouTubers had 1,000 straight days of Skype calls analyzing videos and all hit 1M subscribers “I went from people literally asking me if I was mute because I talk so little and them saying shut up all you do is talk about YouTube and what’s wrong with you be realistic” “we literally had a mastermind call every day for 1,000 days in a row we had a Skype call for 18 hours the only bottleneck was sleep if it wasn’t for sleep we would probably talk for 1,000 hours straight” “we all had around 10,000 subscribers but then we all hit a million subscribers within the same month”
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