Creative Disruption Podcast

Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking forward. #mrbeast

Jake Watson and the Corridor Digital team have successfully unlocked monetization of their data and audiences. By leveraging their own platform CorridorDigital.com, the creators have been able to truly tell authentic stories rather than just trigger an algorithm to go viral. Ricky and Jake discuss the hype around the Metaverse, NFTs, VR, and the impact these technologies have on content and audiences alike.

In this episode I sit down with Matthew Doyle, better known by his YouTube name 'Zealous'. Recently, Matthew was the lucky winner of MrBeast's "Get This Random Person 1,000,000 Subscribers" challenge. Since winning the challenge, Matthew has grown his page to over 2.6M subscribers. In the episode we chat about everything including his experience with MrBeast, how winning the challenge has changed his life, what the future holds…and maybe even some predictions on views for MrBeast's "Squid Games'.

Description: In this episode I sit down with James Hobson, founder of the YouTube channel Hacksmith Industries. James’s channel has amassed a following of over 12M, where he and his team bring fictional items from video games, movies and TV shows to life. Beginning as a mechanical engineer, James took his skills and creative thought processes to create an innovative channel that would not only please his audiences but would regularly bring these otherworldly props such as Captain America’s Electromagnetic Shield, Proto-Lightsabers, Thor’s Hammer, etc.  into the real world. In this episode James and I breakdown how he grew his channel, how he continues to grow his audience after years of success and what the next wave of innovation for creators looks like.

In this episode I sit down to talk with sisters and social media personalities Ashley Nichole and Alisha Marie. With a combined 20M+ followers across all platforms, Ashley and Alisha have found creator success both together as well as individually by honing in on their particular audiences and finding sustainability in diversification. While not only do they continue to pave a way in the creator economy with their YouTube, TikTok and other social media content, but they have also began dipping their toes into new ventures such as their recently launched clothing line, Parallel Apparel. In this episode, Ashley and Alisha share with me their experiences on growing up as YouTubers, what it’s like to live and work together as sisters and their tips for aspiring content creators today.

In this episode I sit down to talk with Ben Taylor The Chief AI Evangelist At DataRobot.

In this episode I sit down to talk with Brent Rivera and Max Levine. As a content creator who has amassed a following of over 80 million across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, Brent has become a power house in the constantly evolving creator community. Working with his business partner Max Levine, who has spent years with Brent helping to build out his successful career, the two found a way to use their combined years of experience to create a data driven strategy for success across the ever-growing platform landscape. With both continued creator success and a passion to help other creators grow, Brent and Max decided to launch Amp Studios, a premier content studio and incubator for digital creators. In this episode, we dive into Brent’s creator background, Max’s creator & platform expertise and our predictions for the future of the industry landscape as we know it. 

In this episode I talk with Sam Sheffer, a technologist, YouTuber, reviewer…and many other titles! Sam has paved his own path into the media landscape through his love for all things technology and using it to connect with his ever-growing audiences. From working at Engadget to The Verge to Mashable, Sam shares his story and what led him to opening his very own “Sam Sheffer Productions”. We also discuss three pieces of advice for creators craving success!

In this episode I talk with Gregg Bilson, CEO of one of the largest Prop Houses in the world, Independent Studio Services (ISS). With over 1.5M props, ISS handles the props for approximately 70% of all Hollywood productions. Not only does ISS work with media giants like Marvel, Disney and Netflix, they are one of the first prop houses to delve into digital content, working directly with creators. In this episode Gregg gives his take on why props are so important…and also shares some incredible stories of working first-hand on some of the biggest Hollywood film productions! 

Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler  

Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.

In this episode we talk with Zach King an internet personality, filmmaker, and probably most know a an illusionist. Zach first went viral when he focused his attention vine developing what he called "magic vines." At this time Zack King has over 11 million subscribers on YouTube and holds the world record for most watched video on TikTok.   

Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging.