How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dhar Mann’s videos look simple, because they are simple: Someone acts badly, someone learns a lesson, everyone gets a moral by the end. You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy these, but it helps.The business behind them is complex. Mann has built a scripted-video studio that turns out TV-length episodes in weeks, generating billions of views a month. Now he tells me he’s expanding beyond YouTube and Facebook into places like Samsung TVs and Fox-backed microdramas, and he thinks the assembly line he’s built will work, there, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:36.2	From the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is Channels with Peter Kafka, that is me.
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