The New Style of Video That’s Taking Over the Internet

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Want Sam's Guide to Create Irresistible Content? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/skv Episode 730: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the trend of cinematic content creators on TikTok and YouTube. — Show Notes: (0:00) Creator Camp (7:41) Wesley Wang’s Viral Short Film (17:00) The Iron Snail (20:08) Michael MacKelvie (24:52) Ryan Trahan’s Candy Commercial Masterpiece (27:20) Different Is Better Than Better — Links: • Creator Camp - http://creatorcamp.co/ • nothing, except everything. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hif5eI5pBxo • Batmalle - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK1n403ok0k/ • The Iron Snail - https://www.youtube.com/@TheIronSnail • Michael Mackelvie - https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelMacKelvie • “We Need To Talk” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImQ1nY0y9HA • Joyride - https://www.joyride.com • STICKS - https://www.youtube.com/@STICKS — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	I believe that video is the native tongue of the internet. Yeah. You go to a country and what language do they speak? They speak English. They speak Spanish. They speak Mandarin. The internet speaks video. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On a road, let's travel. Let me tell you something like really interesting that's light.
0:22.1	So listen to this.
0:23.3	So let me explain how I got into this.
0:25.5	So go to creatorcamp.co.
0:28.5	Okay, I'm here.
0:29.3	Creator Camp.
0:29.8	Defining Cinema for the Internet Age.
0:31.7	Oh, I know these guys.
0:32.4	I've seen these guys on Twitter.
0:33.6	And so I just slacked you their Notion page, which is actually way better. I've seen this because I saw their videos on Twitter and I was like, these guys are great. What are you guys doing? And they sent me this Notion doc. And I was like, I, you know, I F with this. I like you guys. Yes. So let me give a little bit of background here of things that I've noticed. I've noticed that on both long form content on YouTube being like 10, 20, 30, 50 minutes on
0:56.8	YouTube, but also even on short-term, short clips on Instagram, young folks, Gen Z,
1:04.0	they are doing this different type of content and the type of content you and I are used to.
1:08.3	It's well-produced.
1:10.0	Sometimes it's fictional and it's like acted out,
1:12.5	but not like Logan Paul Vine acted out where he's like walking and he slipped on a banana and falls,
1:17.3	but like acting like a script. And I've noticed this happening a ton. And I'll give me an example of one.
1:24.8	Have you heard of this guy called Wesley Wang?
1:28.5	Yes, I have.
1:24.9	You've heard of him? What do you know about him? I've watched his YouTube video. If people haven't seen this, they need to go to YouTube. What is the video? What's the movie called? It's called nothing except everything. So I stumbled on this one night. I don't know how. I was like not presented to me. I had no expectations for it. It's not like somebody sent me this and was like,
1:26.6	hey, this is going to be great.
1:27.8	I just saw know how. It was like not presented to me. I had no expectations for it.
1:44.6	It's not like somebody sent me this and was like, hey, this is going to be great. I just saw it
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