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Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode #3003, Eric Siu and Neil Patel discuss MrBeast's ViewStats and the AI thumbnail backlash, Cloudflare's pay-to-play model, and how LLMs are shaping the future of SEO. They also cover the challenges of monetizing AI content and the potential of hiring AI automation interns to boost workflow efficiency. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES (00:00) MrBeast's ViewStats and AI Thumbnail Controversy (02:43) Cloudflare's Pay-to-Play Model (05:23) The Future of LLMs and SEO (09:53) AI Content and Monetization Challenges (12:31) AI Automation Interns and Workflow Efficiency To suggest a topic, go to https://www.marketingschool.io. For more content from Eric and Neil, check out Eric’s Leveling Up with Eric Siu YouTube channel and Neil’s Neil Patel YouTube channel. Connect with Us: Single Grain << Eric's ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency X @neilpatel, @ericosiu Instagram @neilpatel, @ericosiu Drop Us a Review If You Enjoyed the Episode!

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0:00.0	How about this Mr. Beach Sass decision?
0:03.0	Do you see what, do you know what happened here?
0:04.5	No, I don't even know Mr. Beast is going to Sash other than he has a competitor of a social
0:09.9	Blade.
0:10.2	Social Blade.
0:10.7	Yeah.
0:11.3	So, okay, Social Blade is like a YouTube or like a social, it shows your social stats,
0:16.5	basically, right?
0:17.2	Yeah, it does it for multiple social profiles, but people mainly use it for YouTube first and then Instagram second. So view stats is a product that Mr. Beast came up with.
0:25.9	Interestingly enough, I met someone that was supposed to be his partner on this, but apparently it's,
0:31.8	you know, so apparently I think Mr. Beast will partner up with you, but like you'll get a very
0:36.8	small chunk of equity, like 1% or something like that.
0:41.1	But so Mr. Beast, he posted this to Twitter.
0:43.7	Really quickly, VueStats gets 2.1 million visitors.
0:46.9	Wow.
0:47.0	According to similar blade.
0:48.8	Similar web.
0:49.6	I mean, similar web, sorry.
0:50.6	Similar blade.
0:51.8	A social blade.
0:53.0	Okay.
0:53.7	So view stats, it's actually a great tool.
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