How Marques 'MKBHD' Brownlee got six million subscribers on YouTube
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:26.2 | This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I am part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. I am at |
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| 0:36.2 | But before we get to talk to that guest, I want to ask you briefly to tell a friend about this podcast. You're smart. You're listening to Recode Media Podcast, so you know how to tell a friend about the Recode Media podcast. Thank you in advance for your help. How's that plug, Marcus? It's pretty good. I enjoyed it. My guest here is Marquez Brownlee. Better known to many people as... |
| 0:55.8 | As MKBHD. |
| 0:57.2 | MKBHD. |
| 0:58.2 | And this is an interesting litmus test for your cultural technology, pop cultural literacy. |
| 1:06.7 | You either know who Marquez slash MKBHD is and you think he's a giant effing deal. |
| 1:14.3 | Or you're just hearing about him now for the first time. |
| 1:16.5 | Is that fair? |
| 1:17.5 | That's fair. |
| 1:18.1 | That's fair. |
| 1:18.7 | So you're a giant star that many people have not heard of. |
| 1:22.2 | Yeah, it's a very 2018 thing. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.1 | So there's a lot of people who are fully aware of who I am or via someone else. I get that a lot where people will say, hey, my kid knows you or my brother knows your videos or something like that. You know who said that to me today? Who? The CEO of Vox Media, Jim Bankoff. He's going to bust down the door here for a selfie in a minute so he can press his 12-year-old kid. Nice. For the folks who are listening to this podcast who have not heard of you before, what's the best way to describe you? So I would be a YouTuber in the tech space. A lot of people say a reviewer. That's a big part of what I do is I review gadgets and devices and talk about what you should versus shouldn't buy. But then another big part of it is just talking tech and highlighting it and showcasing it and just having fun with it. So it's videos. Your bona fides are, I'm saying you're a giant deal, but if you don't believe me, you could go to your YouTube page. How many subscribers do you have there? It should be six million tomorrow. Six million people are getting weekly |
| 2:17.8 | updates from you? Yeah, something like that. Your Twitter, what, 3 million? Twitter's, I think, |
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