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The Colin and Samir Show — 407 episodes

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1

The New Rules of YouTube (2027)

2

The Viral Russian MrBeast TikTok & The True Value of Views

3

The Cancellation of Hank Green & Why Gen Z Hates Ai

4

9 Lessons From TBPN's $100M+ Exit

5

4 Ways Creators are Making Money in 2026

6

Tom Segura and Fox Creator Studios: Inside Hollywood's New Business Model

7

CANNES DAY 3: The Art of Standing Out: Pablo Rochat, Sir John Hegarty & E.L.F Beauty

8

CANNES DAY 2: Instagram vs. YouTube: The Battle for the Living Room

9

CANNES DAY 1: Anthpo, Ramp, and The Best Ads of the Year

10

Markiplier Breaks Down His $50M Movie Live

11

Emergency Pod: The YouTube Kids are taking over Hollywood

12

Kareem Rahma: How SubwayTakes Became the New Late Night

13

Why every creator is making a show

14

Mark Rober's $60 Million Dollar Experiment

15

Yes Theory and the Art of Making People Care

16

Why Sam Altman Spent $100M on 10,000 Viewers

17

3 Trends Reshaping the Creator Economy in 2026

18

YouTube, Meta and the case of the Infinite Scroll

19

He Built an AI Podcast and It Became the #1 Show.

20

Who Is Actually Making Money in the Creator Economy?

21

How Markiplier’s $50M Movie Changed Hollywood Forever

22

AI Slop and the End of the 'Human' Internet

23

Inside Jordan Matter’s Netflix Deal, and what it signals for YouTubers

24

How TBPN Built the Luxury Brand of the Creator Economy

25

The Art of Reinvention on YouTube - ft Speeed

26

The Creator Economy’s Abundance Crisis

27

Our 2026 Creator Economy Predictions

28

Instagram on TV, YouTubers on Netflix, Disney on AI

29

Gambling, Creators, and the Future of Trust Online

30

Why the Future of Creator Businesses Is Offline

31

Why Netflix Is Stealing Podcasts from YouTube

32

How Instagram Became the Center of the Universe

33

How Extreme Birdwatching on YouTube could redefine Hollywood.

34

The Business of Email: How Substack Changed Everything

35

Adam Faze: How TikTok Reinvented the TV Pilot

36

Ai Video and the Future of the Creator Economy

37

LIVE: Casey Neistat Unfiltered on Modern YouTube

38

LIVE: How Diary of a CEO became YouTube's #1 Show

39

The Highly Addictive World of Chinese Micro-Dramas

40

Inside Michelle Khare's Most Dangerous Video

41

Masterclass: The YouTube Playbook in 37 Minutes

42

Josh Johnson on Building a Comedy Career on YouTube vs Netflix

43

Is YouTube Turning Into Reality TV?

44

The Future of Attention, Human Connection & the Internet with Mustafa Suleyman

45

Nick DiGiovanni: From Harvard Dropout to YouTube's most watched Chef

46

Inside Ryan Trahan’s 50-Day YouTube Marathon

47

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy : Why live streamers are driving culture in 2025

48

The Viral Expert: Anthpo

49

How $1 Trillion in Ad Spend Is Shifting Toward Creators

50

How Corridor Crew Made One of the Internet’s Favorite Shows

51

3 Creator Economy Trends Shaping the Future

52

Walking Away From 15 Million YouTube Subscribers

53

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn Founder) on the Future of AI in Storytelling

54

Hollywood is Broken. Can YouTubers Fix it?

55

The Secret Strategist Behind The Biggest YouTubers

56

Mark Zuckerberg on the future of Facebook, Creators, and Dead Internet Theory

57

Why YouTube is obsessed with the Emmys

58

How Johnny Harris Changed The News Forever

E
59

The Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Internet: Patreon CEO Jack Conte

60

Lessons in Creativity from Kevin Hart, Beast Games and Adam Grant

61

An Unfiltered Conversation with Pokimane

E
62

We interviewed the CEO of Snapchat

63

MrBeast Reflects on Beast Games, Feastables, and the State of YouTube

E
64

Buying and Selling 2025 Creator Economy Trends

65

An Honest Conversation with Linus Tech Tips

66

Jake Shane: from TikTok to Hollywood

E
67

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on the Future of Podcasts

68

Dude Perfect on their path to Billion-Dollar YouTube Brand

69

How YouTube Podcasts Decided the 2024 Election

70

Dr. Peter Attia on How to Increase Creativity and Prevent YouTube Burnout

71

Good Good Golf: The YouTubers Saving the Golf Industry

72

The Future of Creativity with Scott Belsky, Adobe Chief Strategy Officer

73

Are we too easy on AI?

E
74

We Predict the Future of YouTube

75

We interviewed the YouTuber taking down Netflix: Kinigra Deon

76

How Cleo Abram Dominated YouTube in 1 Year

77

VidSummit Takeaways, Colin and Samir Growing Pains, and Dax Shepard's $80M Deal

78

Scott Galloway's No Bullsh*t Business Advice for Creative People

E
79

Ronaldo joins YouTube, AI scraping on YouTube and the 25 most influential creators

80

A Brutally Honest Conversation about 100 Thieves

81

How YouTube accidentally beat Netflix

82

A Hollywood Showrunner’s POV on YouTube

83

Why Rhett and Link are Making a TV Show (On Their Own Terms)

84

13 Years of YouTube Knowledge in 46 Minutes

85

AI companies are stealing from YouTubers

86

The Fast Approaching Death of Hot Ones

87

How Hasan Piker became the most successful (& hated) political streamer

E
88

We want your feedback

89

Key Takeaways from Cannes Lions

90

Creators on Creators: Cleo Abram x Johnny Harris

91

Alex Banayan: How this college dropout caught the attention of billionaires

92

We interviewed the Head of Instagram: Adam Mosseri

93

PrestonGoes: The Rise of the Next Big YouTuber

94

Why the Try Guys are starting a streaming service

E
95

Is being a YouTuber a Recession-proof job?

96

The YouTube video that broke Hollywood

97

Bucket List Family: They sold their company to Snapchat (and then became YouTubers)

98

Inside John Green's Film Premiere

99

When YouTubers ask for money

100

How Mark Rober built the perfect creator business

101

We asked MKBHD about his 'devastating' Humane AI pin review

102

How to develop discipline: A conversation with Ryan Holiday (2022)

103

The TikTok ban, Ryan’s World and YouTube Shorts monetization

104

An Unfiltered Conversation with Jesser (18.6M subscribers)

105

Why YouTubers are fake retiring

106

Inside Nebula, the Creator-Owned Streaming Service

107

MrBeast reveals his biggest project ever

E
108

Jacob Collier

109

Inside MKBHD's Eye-Opening Ridge Deal

110

Surviving 48 hours with Ludwig

E
111

Hank Green Unpacks YouTube's Biggest Problems

E
112

Why YouTubers Love Apple Vision Pro

113

Inside The Sidemen's Netflix Deal

114

Why MatPat Quit YouTube

115

Our bizarre call with Elon Musk (one year later)

116

Mai Pham

117

A Brutally Honest Conversation with Smosh

E
118

Our thoughts on Yes Theory's new book, the most influential videos on YouTube, how to pick the right idea for a YouTube video

119

We interviewed MrBeast’s newest employee: Dan Mace

E
120

Why MrBeast lost his YouTube record, how to improve the first 5 seconds of a video, recapping 2023 Trends

121

4 lessons from podcast legend Tim Ferriss that changed our business

122

Emma Chamberlain on money, fame and the future of YouTube

E
123

The Murky Ethics of Clipping on YouTube

124

Why this YouTuber replaced himself with AI (Kwebbelkop interview)

125

Is TikTok ruining the music industry? (Our interview with AJR)

126

C&S Rewind: The Full Story of MrBeast

127

YouTube's AI updates, our favorite videos of 2023, and what to do if your audience is disappearing

128

Casey Neistat's Latest Video, Prime's $1M Golden Bottle, Responding to hate comments

129

An Unfiltered Conversation with Kurtis Conner

130

Why creator economy startups are struggling

131

Should creators unionize?

132

An Unfiltered Conversation with Brittany Broski

E
133

An Honest Review of the Dude Perfect App

134

We interviewed the CEO of YouTube

135

The Curse of a Viral Video

136

The Absurd Business of Being an Internet Prankster (ft. Max Fosh)

137

AI YouTubers are already replacing us

138

How Amelia Dimoldenberg built every celebrity’s favorite show (Chicken Shop Date)

139

Unpacking YouTube’s $14 billion NFL investment

140

An Honest Conversation with MrWhosetheBoss

141

Did MrBeast ruin YouTube?

142

3 books that made us better YouTubers

143

How to craft the perfect YouTube intro

144

The Man Behind the Sidemen's $100M Empire

145

7 habits of highly successful YouTubers

146

How Ali Abdaal makes $5,741,266.32 a year on YouTube

147

We broke the 3 laws of YouTube

148

A conversation with YouTube’s rising star BENOFTHEWEEK

149

An update from London

150

An Unfiltered Conversation with Dream

151

12 things we've learned from 12 years on YouTube

152

An Unfiltered Conversation with MrBeast

153

We interviewed a YouTube employee about why videos go viral

154

What life is like right now...

155

An eye opening conversation with podcast legend Tim Ferriss

156

The Ultimate Guide to Selling YouTube Merch

157

How Mr Beast made the best YouTube ad we've ever seen

158

An Unfiltered Conversation with The Try Guys

159

Do anti-thumbnails work on YouTube?

160

How much do YouTubers charge for brand deals?

161

Why YouTubers do things that don't make sense

162

Doug DeMuro’s Wild Ride: How Car Reviews Became A $37 Million Business

163

Is this the future of YouTube?

164

Our interview with Deepfake Tom Cruise

165

Answering questions we've been avoiding

166

Deestroying’s $10 Million YouTube Dream

167

Do YouTube subscribers still matter?

168

How Cassey Ho went from fitness instructor to YouTube millionaire (Our full interview)

169

Is MrBeast still the most creative person on YouTube?

170

Life after Nelk (ft. Jesse Sebastiani)

171

Is AI going to destroy YouTube?

172

The Copy and Paste Culture of YouTube (ft. Austin Kleon)

173

Our thoughts on the TikTok Ban

174

When is it too late to become a YouTuber?

175

Why YouTubers were better in 2017

176

How Kai Cenat became the King of Twitch

177

Should you work for a YouTuber?

178

What YouTube's CEO stepping down means for creators

179

The problem with copying on YouTube

180

How much YouTubers charge for collaborations

181

We interviewed YouTube employees about Shorts monetization

182

Why YouTube paid us $268,016.60 in 2022

183

3 Things We Learned from 3 Brilliant People

184

How Caleb Simpson Mastered YouTube Shorts

185

What happens when a creator gets cancelled

186

Our conversation with Elon Musk

187

The future of Twitter without Elon Musk

188

Predicting the impact of AI on creators

189

Year in Review: Analyzing YouTube's Top 10 moments of 2022

190

We lost

191

The Full Story of Mark Rober

192

The Cure for Loneliness as a Creator [Creator Support]

193

Making sense of Elon Musk's Twitter

194

What FTX's collapse means for creators [Creator Support]

195

The Making of our MrBeast Burger Documentary

196

Why everyone is getting fired in the Creator Economy

197

Inside the complicated business of Vlogging: Interview with UrMomAshley

198

Our thoughts on Elon Musk's Twitter [Creator Support]

199

4 predictions for the future of the creator economy [Creator Support]

200

3 genius strategies Dream used to get 31 million subscribers

201

What a YouTube producer actually does [Creator Support]

202

How to make a comeback on YouTube [Creator Support]

203

Lessons from a Master Storyteller: Hasan Minhaj

204

How it actually felt to cross 1 million subscribers [Creator Support]

205

How to develop discipline: A conversation with Ryan Holiday

206

Our response to getting copied on YouTube [Creator Support]

207

The story behind Twitch's worst week ever

208

How YouTube is about to change forever [Creator Support]

209

How Jarvis Johnson Quit His Job to Sit and Talk to Millions

210

How we deal with jealousy [Creator Support]

211

What creators can learn from professional athletes — our conversation with lacrosse star Paul Rabil

212

What really happened at the MrBeast Burger opening

213

How Rhett and Link Failed their way to 8 Billion Views on YouTube

214

What the end of Instagram means for small businesses [Creator Support]

215

Why creators need a bucket list – our interview with Ben Nemtin

216

What to do when a video tanks [Creator Support]

217

Cody Ko & Noel Miller on Quitting That's Cringe, Monetizing TMG, and Partying with Elon Musk [Extended]

218

Addressing criticism from our audience [Creator Support]

219

The nearly impossible job of managing MrBeast: An interview with Reed Duchscher [Extended]

220

Why it's so hard to hire a good editor [Creator Support]

221

How Flagrant’s Andrew Schulz fixed the biggest problem in comedy

222

How to make challenge videos if you can’t give away $1 million [Creator Support]

223

How MrBeast crossed 100M subscribers and became the biggest YouTuber in the world

224

The one thing all successful creators have in common [Creator Support]

225

YouTubers ask us questions — how much money we make, our biggest regret and more [Extended cut]

226

How to create on days when you have no motivation [Creator Support]

227

An honest conversation with TommyInnit

228

An honest conversation with Jordan Matter: The oldest YouTuber with 11M subscribers

229

Why taking a break is terrifying [Creator Support]

230

3 Key Takeaways from VidCon [Creator Support]

231

Why KSI can do everything all at once

232

How short-form content gets monetized [Creator Support]

233

How to build a podcast on YouTube [Creator Support]

234

Why our show is changing [Creator Support]

235

How Nick Martell & Jack Kramer built Snacks Daily and then, The Best One Yet

236

How much do YouTuber employees make? [Creator Support]

237

How Ryan Trahan Changed YouTube with a Penny

238

Does Consistency Matter on YouTube Anymore? [Creator Support]

239

How Michelle Khare Became the Most Badass Human on YouTube

240

What does a recession mean for Creators? [Creator Support]

241

Meet YouTube’s Worst Inventor: Simone Giertz

242

Has Instagram turned its back on creators? [Creator Support]

243

How ZHC Became The MrBeast of Art

244

How we deal with hate messages [Creator Support]

245

Why we're struggling to make videos [Creator Support]

246

Why Andrew Callaghan is the last honest man in News.

247

Elon Musk bought Twitter, now what? [Creator Support]

248

The Most Popular Kids in New York: Ur Mom's House

249

Should creators drop out of college? [Creator Support]

250

Yes Theory: The Business of Saying "No" with Thomas Brag and Ammar Kandil

251

Why some creators fail and others succeed [Creator Support]

252

How much money should I charge? [Creator Support]

253

Why TikTok's Top Stars Raised a $25M Fund 💸

254

The Untold Truth of Binging With Babish

255

Why Emma Chamberlain Quit YouTube

256

Inside the mind of Artist Van Neistat

257

How Amelia Dimoldenberg built a hit YouTube Show

258

How Ludwig Ahgren became the #1 Streamer on Twitch

259

What Kanye taught us about YouTube

260

How Andrew Schulz dismantled the business of comedy

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261

TikTok Takes over the SuperBowl, David Dobrik, and Wordle

262

The Richest Kid on YouTube

263

MrFeast & a day with Van Neistat

264

Why Liza Koshy Disappeared from YouTube

265

TikTok’s Money Problem

266

MrBeast is selling his YouTube Channel

267

Answering your Questions [Audio Exclusive]

268

Logan Paul & KSI's $10 Billion Sports Drink

E
269

How we built The Colin and Samir Show

270

Inside the Mind of MKBHD

271

Jeff Wittek's Rise and Demise (and rise again)

272

The Entire Story of Lilly Singh

273

How MrBeast "Stole" Squid Game

274

Let’s talk about the Metaverse

275

Dude Perfect’s struggle with YouTube

276

Jack Conte: The Unexpected Story of Patreon

277

Elle Mills: Life after Burnout

278

How Squid Game saved Netflix

279

The Future of YouTube: A Conversation with YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl

280

The Silent Genius of Khaby Lame

281

Predicting the Future of the Creator Economy

282

The Dark Side of the Charli and Dixie D'amelio

283

The Full Story of MrBeast

E
284

A Conversation with MrBeast’s Mom

285

Dear Emma Chamberlain, You've Changed

286

Why the Paul Brothers are Saving the Boxing Industry ft. Hayden Hillier Smith

287

The Wildly Lucrative world of Ice Cream TikTok ft. Dylan Lemay

288

72 hours with the most popular YouTuber on the planet, Mr. Beast.

289

Why does everyone leave the Hype House?

290

He sold his company to Amazon for $970,000,000 ft Justin Kan

291

👋🏽 Hey It’s Samir.

292

Tai Verdes: The making of a modern day popstar

293

The TikTok Cult Leader - Victoria Paris

E
294

How College Athlete Vloggers became Millionaires Overnight.

295

The High Price of Airrack's Success

296

How Much Money Airrack Makes with 1M subscribers on YouTube

297

The Disney-Fication of the Nelk Boys

298

Being a YouTuber in India ft. Sejal Kumar

299

We played Roblox so you don't have to...

300

Ryan Trahan: From college dropout to the YouTube trending page

301

Is TikTok Ruining the Music Industry?

302

Why Creators are opening Hotels ft Shelby Church

303

How Dixie D'Amelio Murdered Late Night

304

Selling our first NFT pt 1

305

How much YouTube has paid us since the beginning (14M views) ft. Li Jin

306

Why Emma Chamberlain is the new Casey Neistat

307

How Nas Daily makes $8 million a year with Facebook video

308

The Problem with Buying Stock in Logan Paul (BitClout)

309

The Mr. Beast Interview: Spending Millions of Dollars for Billions of Views

310

Meet the Girls Saving Clubhouse and Social Media

311

Charli D'amelio is selling out... (of Cold Brew)

312

The $69M Digital Painting: Beeple, Explained

313

The MKBHD Episode

314

The NFT Episode: How Logan Paul made $5million selling air

315

YouTuber Products: Winners & Losers

316

David Dobrik's $100 Million Dollar Deal with Spotify

317

Elon Musk, Clubhouse and going to the Moon 🚀

318

How Graham Stephan makes $4,578,896.32 a year on YouTube

319

How Mr. Beast turns $Millions into Billions

320

Reviewing our worst Brand Deals

321

Predicting the Biggest Creator Trends of 2021

322

Building a better world for Creators ft Joe Albanese

323

Making Music a Career with Henry Hall

324

Creativity, Video and the meaning of Life: The Evolution of Jack Coyne

325

Making your own Market: Why Logan Paul Bought $200,000 in Pokemon Cards

326

VOTE: A conversation about Voting

327

Our Thoughts on Casey Neistat's Return to Vlogging

328

The Social Dilemma: A conversation

329

What we want to do when we grow up

330

Actor, Farmer, TikTok Star - Pierson Fode's Life Story

331

Is College Still Worth it?

332

A $17,000 gamble on YouTube ft. Airrack

333

New Studio, New Subscribers and a New Business Venture

334

F*ck it, let's get jobs (Part 2)

335

The Growing Pains of Growing a Creator Business

336

Why Tiktok is taking over

337

George Floyd and American Racism, A Discussion.

E
338

A candid look into our brainstorming process

339

The Future of the World

340

Lessons from 8 years of YouTube

341

A day in the life of Colin and Samir **Quarantine Edition

342

The Value of Comedy during times like these ft. Esteban Gast

343

10 Things we Learned from 10 Days in Quarantine

344

50 Million Views with Coolman Coffeedan

345

Our Perspective on the New Normal.

346

$70,000 in a day ft. Thomas Dajer of Yes Theory

347

Lessons from Failed YouTubers

348

Instagram is Removing Likes.

349

If you could do anything for 30 days

350

Why we took a break

351

We made another movie ft Yes Theory's Ammar Kandil

352

Candid Thoughts on Turning 30

353

Ask Samir Anything.

354

Behind the Scenes of Yes Theory ft Thomas Dajer

355

F*ck it, Let's just get jobs.

356

Who do you want to be? A conversation about Masculinity and Identity in Media

357

Making a TV Show: What we Learned

358

A quick update, See you in June!

359

Dealing with Self Doubt

360

Saying Yes to Yes Theory

361

The importance of having a North Star - and we answer your questions

362

Lessons from Game of Thrones - the value of consistency

363

How to Delete Instagram and take a break from Social Media

364

How to be more than an athlete with Paul Rabil

365

How to Change the World with Ammar Kandil of Yes Theory

366

We did it, We made a movie.

367

The art of love, kindness and empathy with Houston Kraft

368

We never thought this day would come

369

Creating a career doing what you love with Matt D'avella

370

Finding your niche audience - LIVE Episode

371

Our first big Hollywood meeting

372

New Year, New Beginnings

373

We want your feedback

374

Dealing with Uncertainty and looking back on 2018

375

We've got a lot to learn

376

Finding the the artist within yourself: ft. Sahil Chaudry

377

The value of feedback

378

Lessons from a Failed Pitch: dealing with nerves, comparison and imposter syndrome

379

How to remain authentically You: The return of Jack Coyne

380

17 Year Old Entrepreneur and YouTuber, Jade Darmawangsa on being different and finding success online

381

Questions to ask yourself: Are you living the life you want to live?

382

Designing the life you want to live with Rachel and Daniel from Mango Street

383

Why are we doing this? Answering the toughest question we've asked ourselves.

384

Yes Theory's Thomas Brag and Matt Dajer on working through uncertainty, dealing with lows and Saying Yes.

385

Candid thoughts on fame and early stage success on YouTube.

386

18 Year Old Filmmaker Braxton Haugen on YouTube vs Film and Working with Colin and Samir

387

Brand building and struggling to stay consistent on YouTube

388

Living in a Van and building Community on YouTube: Minimal Millennials

389

Creating Authentic Content on YouTube as a Company: Caleb and Niles from Moment Lenses

390

Working with Jake Paul and the importance of Diversity in Entertainment with content producer, Mai Linh Nguyen

391

Building a long lasting brand with Professional Lacrosse Player Kyle Harrison

392

Facing your fears, Conquering Imperfection and Daily Vlogging with Cody Wanner

393

Legally Blind Filmmaker James Rath on Accessibility, Self-Acceptance and Overcoming Adversity

394

How to send cold emails and bring your ideas to life: Madison Dye, Aerospace Engineer

395

Instagram Robots and The Future of Storytelling with Filmmaker Kerry Furrh

396

Conquering your Fears, Jumping out of Planes and Self Storytelling: Skydiving with Josh Rottman

397

Lessons from traveling around the world in a car: Alex Portera of The Nowhere Men

398

Bringing an idea to life and dropping the term "YouTuber" : Your Questions Answered

399

Ask us Questions: Show Update #1

400

Dealing with Creative Block and Burn Out

401

The Future of Live Entertainment: HQ Trivia, Twitch and Logan Paul vs KSI

402

How to Sell Your Movie to Netflix with Filmmaker Matt D'avella

403

Jake & Josh: building a World Record Trick Shot Channel on YouTube, Sending Cold Emails, and Making the content you want to make.

404

Jack Coyne on working with Casey Neistat, Beme News and Finding your own voice as a YouTuber

405

Why Every YouTuber Has a Podcast

406

Creative Partnerships

407

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