TKFM Quick Hits #27: "YouTubers: The New Movie Stars"

About this episode

The episode discusses how YouTubers like Markiplier are changing the landscape of movie making and advertising.

YouTuber Markiplier took $3M and his almost 40M subscribers and showed the world that you can make $50M on a $3M movie by engaging the support of your follower base. What does this mean for the future of movie making, studios, and independent film? Social media has become the center point for pretty much ALL advertising and promoting, even live shopping creeping into your TikTok feeds. Why not the new frontier for feature-length movie making as well? Eric Schrader and I discuss this, Mr. Beast's Amazon show, and other stuff in this week's TKFM Quick Hit! Follow me for more royalty free music: https://timkulig.com/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063945225723 https://www.patreon.com/timkulig https://www.instagram.com/timkuligfreemusic/ Tim Kulig \ timkulig.com

People in this episode

Host: Tim Kulig

Guest: Eric Schrader

Topics covered

• YouTubers
• movie making
• social media
• independent film
• advertising
• content creation

Keywords

• Markiplier
• YouTubers
• movie stars
• social media
• independent film
• advertising
• content creation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, TikTok, YouTube

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