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Huh? It costs ~$3 million dollars to make one of his videos? Where are you getting that figure from?

infecto 3y ago
Huh? Quick Kagi search. https://www.creatorhandbook.net/mrbeast-reveals-ad-revenue-in-his-latest-high-budget-video/ https://www.creatorhandbook.net/mrbeast-reveals-ad-revenue-i... He has been pretty vocal about his costs and I think most/all are minimum $1million for him.
_ea1k 3y ago
I think MrBeast has made claims before that some of his videos are that expensive. I don't doubt him.
- api 3y ago
  MrBeast and numerous other huge scale YouTubers are actually boutique production companies. The top tiers of all these platforms have been dominated by operations not individuals for some time now.
tootie 3y ago
It says so in the article
tgsovlerkhgsel 3y ago
That specific video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhE6PYnRMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhE6PYnRMc) was rather odd. He gave away "only" $95k in prize money, but also launched a car powered by 10 jet engines off a ramp across 10 scrap school busses, burned down a house with fireworks, and had a giant pit dug into which he crashed a train (after dumping various other things inside). It looked like a series of really expensive ideas that sounded fun, but turned out quite chaotic, felt less fun than many other videos (at least for me), and it is something like #50 by popularity. I believe he didn't fake any of the actual stunts. Here's a making-of of a jet car for MrBeast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rri83pDN6kc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rri83pDN6kc You'll notice it's a similar setup, but a red car instead of blue, 7 engines instead of 10, a landing ramp at the end, and it didn't clear the school busses. Meanwhile, in the released video, there's 10 engines on a blue car that makes it across the entire bus park. So assuming it's all real, that's at least 17 mini jet engines destroyed (at least I'd assume that none of them were reusable after this). I'd guess their price at $5-20k each (the latter is what I found for the PBS TJ-40 G1, which looks like the engine from the making-of). Add to it all the engineering work that was required, and I wouldn't be surprised if the jet car part alone exceeded half a million. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEAJ-DFkHE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEAJ-DFkHE is a more typical video, where he "reviews" expensive plane tickets. Starting by buying out an entire domestic first class section (let's guess this at 15k), two first-class seats on a long-distance flight with Emirates (~20k, going by the listed price which seems realistic), one of those first-class suits (~25k stated), a (again going by stated prices) $100k private flight, an advertising blimp ($300k), and a super-luxury private jet flight ($500k), so around a million dollars just for the flights before accounting for any other production costs.

Huh? Quick Kagi search. https://www.creatorhandbook.net/mrbeast-reveals-ad-revenue-in-his-latest-high-budget-video/ https://www.creatorhandbook.net/mrbeast-reveals-ad-revenue-i... He has been pretty vocal about his costs and I think most/all are minimum $1million for him.

_ea1k 3y ago

I think MrBeast has made claims before that some of his videos are that expensive. I don't doubt him.

api 3y ago
MrBeast and numerous other huge scale YouTubers are actually boutique production companies. The top tiers of all these platforms have been dominated by operations not individuals for some time now.

tootie 3y ago

It says so in the article

tgsovlerkhgsel 3y ago

That specific video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhE6PYnRMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhE6PYnRMc) was rather odd. He gave away "only" $95k in prize money, but also launched a car powered by 10 jet engines off a ramp across 10 scrap school busses, burned down a house with fireworks, and had a giant pit dug into which he crashed a train (after dumping various other things inside). It looked like a series of really expensive ideas that sounded fun, but turned out quite chaotic, felt less fun than many other videos (at least for me), and it is something like #50 by popularity. I believe he didn't fake any of the actual stunts. Here's a making-of of a jet car for MrBeast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rri83pDN6kc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rri83pDN6kc You'll notice it's a similar setup, but a red car instead of blue, 7 engines instead of 10, a landing ramp at the end, and it didn't clear the school busses. Meanwhile, in the released video, there's 10 engines on a blue car that makes it across the entire bus park. So assuming it's all real, that's at least 17 mini jet engines destroyed (at least I'd assume that none of them were reusable after this). I'd guess their price at $5-20k each (the latter is what I found for the PBS TJ-40 G1, which looks like the engine from the making-of). Add to it all the engineering work that was required, and I wouldn't be surprised if the jet car part alone exceeded half a million. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEAJ-DFkHE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEAJ-DFkHE is a more typical video, where he "reviews" expensive plane tickets. Starting by buying out an entire domestic first class section (let's guess this at 15k), two first-class seats on a long-distance flight with Emirates (~20k, going by the listed price which seems realistic), one of those first-class suits (~25k stated), a (again going by stated prices) $100k private flight, an advertising blimp ($300k), and a super-luxury private jet flight ($500k), so around a million dollars just for the flights before accounting for any other production costs.