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Victor Potrel is the Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Creator Services for TheSoul – an award-winning digital studio that produces entertaining, positive and original content for a global audience including the popular 5-Minute Crafts and Bright Side series. Amassing one of the largest total followings in the world we discuss the future of the creator economy and what may be the secret to making content that sticks.

This week Vanshika Chaturvedi and I discuss...

The Roast of Tom Brady

Disney+ turns a profit, cuts back on MCU

Who slayed at the Met Gala

The Office is coming back (sort of)

Livestream shopping is about to grow

Bing Chen is an impact founder, investor, and new world builder. He is Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-founder of Gold House, the leading cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asia Pacific creators and communities to power tomorrow for all. He is also Executive Chairman of AU Holdings which incubates and invests in multicultural creators and communities; General Partner and Co-founder of Aum Group, a premier multicultural film fund; and serves as a Board Director and Advisor to several leading digital media companies. 

Previously, he was YouTube's Global Head of Creator Development and Management, where he was one of the original and principal architects of the multi-billion dollar creator and influencer ecosystem that supports 300 million creators worldwide. He is a Google Multicultural Champion; Young Presidents’ Organization Member; a Hollywood Reporter Next Gen Leader and Most Influential Agent of Change; Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and 15 others amazing achievements that are too long to list.

We recap the entire week in 30 minutes, trading topics back and forth until we’re exhausted because It’s Been A Week. 

Cheeseball Man

The cable bundle is making a comeback like Josh Hartnett

Google below 80% market share, Bing rises from the dead

Reid Hoffman talks to Reid Hoffman about Reid Hoffman

AI plays spoiler in a rap beef

Fresh off a record setting NFL Draft in Detroit, I talk to Zach Hilder and Tim Ellis about their Born To Play campaign for Super Bowl LVIII. 

Zach Hilder is a 5x Emmy winning Executive Creative Director at 72andSunny in LA, where he co-leads the agency as well as key clients like the NFL and Call of Duty.

Tim Ellis has been the NFL’s Chief Marketing Officer since 2018. Previously serving in the same role at Activision Blizzard, Ellis made an immediate impact. The draft has become a must attend event, ratings keep going up and the game is expanding into new countries and new play styles.

Hamnah Shahid (any/all pronouns) is an award-winning TTRPG performer, producer, and writer. From a queer, agender, Pakistani perspective, they specialize in high-emotion, character-driven narratives. Their work explores themes of the tendervicious, the complexity of morals, and what or who it is that makes life worth living.

Hamnah strives to make experimental, emotionally-driven art that not only encourages us to question what we think is possible in TTRPGs, but also uplifts marginalized voices seeking to tell their own stories. You can follow her work on X/Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok at LilithTTRPG.

Allison Carter is the editor-in-chief of PR Daily at Ragan Communications. She spent seven years with the Indianapolis Star as a social media producer, writer, editor and digital strategist. She also has a background in agency work, specializing in content and social media marketing. 

She lives in Indianapolis.

Rollie is the creator and host of Climate Town, a docu-comedy video series focused on the climate crisis. He moved to NYC to pursue comedy in 2013, and spent six years performing on every stage that would have him. Eventually, he began hosting a climate-focused talk show where he played an unhinged Al Gore on an “I-told-you-so” tour, interviewing comedians and climate scientists. Every scientist told him the same thing: we’re woefully unprepared for the coming environmental crisis.
Recognizing that climate change would be the defining issue of our time, he enrolled in Columbia University to get a Master’s degree in Climate Science and Policy so he could actually know what he was talking about. Then in 2020, he combined his degree and comedy background to start Climate Town–a YouTube channel blending comedy and exhaustive research to get people talking about climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ClimateTown
https://www.climatetownproductions.com/

Kahlil Greene, also known as the “Gen Z Historian”, is a 2x Emmy-Nominated and New York Times recognized digital educator with over 30 million views across his Tiktok, Instagram, and LinkedIn profiles. He has authored op-eds about social advocacy in the Washington Post, LA Times, and Harvard Business Review.

Kahlil also graduated from Yale with a degree in History and served as the college’s first Black student body president. Kahlil is now a full-time, self-employed speaker, influencer, and educator and is known for his TikTok series, Hidden History–which dives into stories of American injustice–and for his commentary about US politics.

Dane is a queer oral history enthusiast living in Montreal, but originally from Nova Scotia. His podcast, Resurrection, is an 8-episode documentary deep dive into the life and artwork of Daryl Allen, a playwright who passed away from AIDS in 1991. During its release, Resurrection charted as the #1 Arts podcast in Canada and among the Top 15 overall. Resurrection was named one of the Best Podcasts of 2023 by Amazon Music.