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EPISODE · Feb 9, 2026 · 48 MIN

A couple teenagers launched a media company that now drives 240 billion annual views

from The Business of Content with Simon Owens · host Simon Owens

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/   Kit Chilvers started posting memes on Instagram when he was 14, treating the platform like a video game and obsessing over what made posts take off. A decade later, that experimentation has turned into Pubity Group, a bootstrapped social media company with roughly 170 million followers and hundreds of billions of annual views.    In a recent interview, Kit broke down how he cracked early Instagram growth, why wholesomeness turned out to be a massive business opportunity, and how he's trying to turn platform-native virality into durable media brands, original franchises, and real revenue.  

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