Today on The Colin and Samir show, we're talking about Dude Perfect, the Trickshot creators with over 56 million subscribers who are worth an estimated $50 million.

They were recently featured on one of our favorite podcasts, How I Built This, and you'll hear segments from the episode on today's show.

We dive deep into why Dude Perfect struggled for over five years to turn YouTube into a full-time

career and break down what makes them so successful.

So much of what Dude Perfect does is extremely visual, so we encourage you to watch the YouTube

upload today as well because there's a lot that you won't want to miss.

Little known fact, we worked with Dude Perfect in 2015. That's right.

And we'll get there.

But I want to go back to the beginning of Dude Perfect.

2009, they're students at Texas A&M, and they make a trick shot compilation video in their

backyard and upload it to YouTube.

Hello folks. Welcome to Backyard. Stuntman. It gets 50 to 100,000 views in a pretty short

amount of time, which is incredible. Which is crazy for your first upload. Out of control. That's crazy.

That first video was featured on Good Morning America. They showed the footage and obviously for five college guys,

it was kind of a fun 15 minutes of the spotlight. So I think that speaks to how universally

entertaining trick shots are. And I think how universally entertaining it was when it wasn't

athletes. Like when it was just people hanging out in a college house, having fun for a show like Good Morning America,

that's just like a feel good video. The relatability thing is important. Yeah. They are pro sports

adjacent. Yes. Which is everyone. Which is everyone. A very small amount of people actually get to play

pro sports. So they kind of captured that backyard feel of playing football with your friends

and catching the winning touchdown, which didn't happen to me all that often. Right. Yeah.

The other thing was their reactions are so engaging and so authentic. It transcends language to

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