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🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | So you beautiful bastards. Hope you have a fantastic Wednesday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco |
0:04.9 | Show at a quick note after today's show if you're looking for something else and maybe |
0:09.2 | something that is not as heavy. Right before this episode over at YouTube.com slash ACW, I uploaded |
0:14.4 | my brand new podcast with John Green. It's a fantastic fun and thoughtful one. The link will be in the top |
0:19.1 | description. But that said, welcome back to this Philip DeFranco Show. |
0:22.6 | Buckle up, hit that like button, otherwise we'll punch you in the throat and let's just jump into it. |
0:26.6 | And the first two things are interesting pieces of entertainment slash business news. |
0:30.6 | The first one, more interesting, the second one more concerning. |
0:34.6 | With the first here being in the avenue of one of the fastest growing and most exciting spaces right now, gaming slash live streaming. One of the things that is stand |
0:42.0 | out here is success at different but notable levels, huge and also decent. Or one of the silver |
0:47.6 | linings for creators during this pandemic as you have more people consuming content at higher rates. |
0:52.0 | We know this for a number of reasons, including a newly released YouTube blog post where they announced that this year 80,000 YouTube |
0:57.6 | gaming creators hit 100,000 subs, over 1,000 creators hit 5 million subs, and over 350 reached 10 |
1:04.6 | million. Those are absolutely crazy numbers, but also more understandable when you get into the |
1:08.9 | even more mind-boggling numbers. Right now there is something like 40 million active gaming channels globally and 100 billion hours of content watch. |
1:17.6 | But also one of the things that is very interesting is when you think of the top creators on YouTube, they're not actually who you would think. |
1:23.6 | Or when you say top creator or more, top gaming creators, you might think, |
1:28.3 | a PewDiePie, you might think Markiplier, Jack Septuike, a running list. |
1:31.3 | But rather, what you end up seeing are creators in channels like FGTV, which is a nearly |
1:36.3 | 18 million subscriber channel geared towards children. |
1:38.3 | The top list, also including the likes of Jelly, Flamingo, Robin Hood Gamer, It's Funny, Laser Beam, as well as a number of other channels, |
1:45.5 | some of which I'm only aware of because of my son. As far as the games that dominated, Minecraft is |
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