What Beast Games Means for Creators
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the idea of the "Individual Empire" and why Mr. Beast is the absolute best example of this new reality. I break down his inspiring journey of building an empire through content and his CPG brand. His success signals about the future of creator-owned IP versus the traditional studio model. I also share the current platforms and mediums where attention is still underpriced for those looking to build their own legacy.
You’ll learn about:
Why the creator is the empire
The underpriced attention opportunities in live streaming
Why I believe Mr. Beast is a "preview, not the anomaly"
How the algorithm is the report card for the audience
The significance of Beast Games and what it means for Hollywood
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you what Beast game really is. |
| 0:01.8 | It made Hollywood realize it was all true along the way. |
| 0:05.3 | You can have a life making content on the internet. |
| 0:08.2 | Now I'm telling you, Beast is the preview to you can build |
| 0:12.2 | an empire on the back of a human. |
| 0:14.1 | The individual empires here. |
| 0:16.2 | Mr. Bees is a prime example of that. |
| 0:20.0 | A prime example? He is the example. |
| 0:22.6 | He's an inspiration because he did it and he did it |
| 0:25.6 | piece of content by piece of content by piece of content but he's also got a |
| 0:28.6 | consumer product. |
| 0:29.6 | Beast Games is the scaled execution of what Jimmy always wanted to do and at first he had |
| 0:34.6 | five bucks to do it and then he had 5,000 and then he had fifty thousand bucks and that was wow on |
| 0:39.3 | YouTube and he had five hundred thousand bucks and that was wow wow and now he's |
| 0:42.7 | got at the highest levels and he's gonna do everything he ever wants to do in |
| 0:46.7 | nonprofit for profit he's a preview not the anomaly I don't even think Beast |
| 0:51.0 | has even begun to actually cook what I'm happy about is there's a lot of kids dreaming right now |
| 0:57.0 | at 13, 14, 15 because of Jimmy's work. |
| 0:59.0 | This is the Gary Vee audio experience. |
| 1:02.0 | Gary, you talked about the individual empire |
| 1:06.0 | in the rise of that would you say, |
| 1:08.0 | Mr. Bees is a prime example of that? |
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