Did Daily Wire Really Burn $100 Million On This? | TBNS 1083

About this episode

Marcus Pittman discusses the failures of conservative streaming and the importance of understanding audience demographics.

Did Daily Wire really torch $100 million on Bentkey? Marcus Pittman, CEO of LOOR TV, called the collapse of conservative streaming years before it happened - and he is back on the show to explain exactly why conservative entertainment keeps losing. Four years ago Marcus came on with a contrarian pitch that made VCs laugh in his face - Netflix meets Kickstarter, where subscribers decide what gets made. Today he has funded nearly 40 pieces of content for under a million bucks, the same number the venture guys swore would cost over $100 million. He bet against the room and the room was wrong. Here is the mistake that keeps sinking the right. Conservatives build content for the parent and forget the parent is not the consumer - the kid is. McDonald's figured this out with the Happy Meal in the 70s. Chuck E Cheese figured it out. Bentkey never did, ad the bill came due to the tune of nine figures. Then we get into the part nobody on our side wants to hear. Rumble keeps screaming "free speech platform" while quietly admitting they have no Mr. Beast. Microsoft lit $100 million on fire chasing Ninja over to Mixer. The pattern is always the same - buy the big name, wait for the audience…

People in this episode

Host: Brian Nichols

Guest: Marcus Pittman

Topics covered

• conservative entertainment
• streaming collapse
• content creation
• audience building
• Gen Z
• media consumption

Keywords

• Daily Wire
• conservative streaming
• content funding
• audience engagement
• Gen Z
• media strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LOOR TV, Daily Wire, Netflix, Kickstarter, McDonald's, Chuck E Cheese, Rumble, Microsoft

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