MrBeast signs Amazon deal for biggest competition series in TV history
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
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MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, is 25 and has more than 425 million fans. Time magazine has called him “the most watched person on earth.” He recently signed a $100 million deal with Amazon for “Beast Games,” a show that will have 1,000 contestants vie for $5 million, the largest single prize ever offered on TV or streaming. What explains MrBeast’s astronomic popularity? And how can his story help us live extraordinary lives as Christians?
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| 0:00.0 | Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Wednesday, March the 20th, 2024. |
| 0:07.8 | Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:15.2 | Who is the most watched person on earth, according to Time magazine. If you're following the news, you might |
| 0:22.6 | nominate Taylor Swift, who now has the number one music film ever on the Disney Plus platform, |
| 0:28.8 | or Princess Kate, who was just spotted in public for the first time in months. Tom Cruise, |
| 0:36.1 | rank the most popular actor of 2023, or Lionel Messi, ranked our |
| 0:41.6 | most popular athlete. But the answer is 25-year-old Jimmy Donaldson, better known by his online |
| 0:49.6 | alias, Mr. Beast. His videos have garnered a social media audience of over 425 million fans. He estimates that he |
| 0:59.7 | appears on a screen somewhere in the world about 30 billion times a year. Now he's making news for a deal |
| 1:07.2 | he struck with Amazon worth as much as $100 million. Beast Games will consist of a |
| 1:14.4 | thousand contestants competing for a $5 million cash prize, the largest single prize ever |
| 1:21.5 | offered on television or streaming. Donaldson will host and executive produce the show, |
| 1:27.2 | which will be available in 240 |
| 1:29.9 | countries and territories. His secret is not just as entertaining and well-produced videos. Parenthetically, |
| 1:37.0 | time reports that he shoots as much as 12,000 hours of footage for a 15-minute clip. It's also |
| 1:43.9 | the way his viewers are invited to engage with him. |
| 1:47.0 | At his suggestion, for example, viewers have planted 20 million trees and more than 600,000 people donated enough money to help remove 30 million pounds of trash from the oceans. |
| 2:00.0 | Grace and Logan, an 11-year-old who watches Mr. Beast videos every day at his home in Arkansas, says, |
| 2:07.6 | I like him because he's super nice and he helps people and gives them money. |
| 2:11.6 | A digital marketing expert says of Donaldson's appeal, his whole perspective is, |
| 2:16.6 | how do I make the average person extraordinary? |
| 2:20.4 | This question helps explain Donaldson's astounding popularity, since most of us seek to be extraordinary every day. |
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