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The Colin and Samir Show

How Rhett and Link Failed their way to 8 Billion Views on YouTube

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

Business

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Rhett and Link have been making YouTube videos for over 15 years. They now have a successful media company with over 120 employees and continue to put our content daily. Colin and Samir sit down with them to discuss their biggest failures, advice for future creators and decision to build a media company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today on The Colin and Samir Show, we're sitting down with Rhett and Link.

0:05.0

Now, we've spoken with Ret and Link before, but we've never really had the opportunity to sit down for two hours uninterrupted and just ask them every question that we have.

0:12.5

And we did have a lot of questions. Now, we actually did this at their studio. And we also got to tour around the studio, which is another video that's going to be coming out

0:21.2

on our YouTube channel.

0:22.0

So if you don't subscribe, you should definitely go subscribe there.

0:24.4

Now, if you're unfamiliar with Rent and Link, they're most commonly known for their show

0:28.0

Good Mythical Morning.

0:29.1

It's also the name of the channel.

0:31.0

They put out three episodes a week, and the show has been running for the last 10 years.

0:35.8

Now, on the date that we are releasing this episode,

0:38.7

they have done 2,232 episodes of Good Mythical Morning. That's crazy. Unheard of on YouTube

0:48.1

to be that consistent and to keep the quality how they keep it. I mean, it's crazy. In addition to

0:53.3

producing Good Mythical Morning,

0:54.6

they're also building out a media company called Mythical, where they have other shows,

0:59.0

different properties, and they even purchased Smosh for $10 million. Smosh was a previous

1:05.0

YouTube company that they actually bought and brought into their world. Yeah, and now they have a

1:09.4

creator accelerator where they are

1:10.9

investing in creators like Jarvis Johnson. So Rent and Link are really paving the way for creators

1:16.1

who want to build into media companies. So that was a lot of why Colin and I wanted to go and

1:20.9

talk to them. You'll notice in this interview, we're really asking them questions that have to do with

1:25.1

our careers. But we really wanted everyone to be able to

1:28.1

pull from how Ret and Link have built their company, because I think you can learn a lot about

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