What YouTuber Has More Employees Than Linus?

[Orangeator]

Just curious, how many YouTubers out there employ more people than Linus? Personally, I cannot think of another YouTube personality that has as many full-time/part-time employees as Linus does. I know the HackSmith has a good amount of people working for him, but I don't think quite as many.

 

To be more specific, Elon Musk or some major celeb/business person like Mark Cuban who owns businesses that have many employees whose income has nothing to do with their YouTube channel is not relevant to this question.

[Orangeator]

9 hours ago, James Evens said:

More then you think.

State media like ARD, RT, CGTV, ....

private media: CNN, reuters, CNET, BuzzFeed,

...

 

The ARD alone has more youtube channels then LMG employees.

That's really not an answer to my question. I am asking what YouTuber, as in an individual person, employs more people through their YouTube channel(s) than Linus. Obviously generic CNN is not "YouTuber", and I would not think of Wolf Blitzer as a YouTuber's employee... A YouTuber would be someone like Mr. Beast, or Marques for example. A YouTuber would not be CNN or RT, those are preexisting companies that happen to have a channel. Not YouTube personalities whose company is based on YouTube.

[Eigenvektor]

12 minutes ago, James Evens said:

The ARD alone has more youtube channels then LMG employees.

To be fair, I don't think state media that "also" has a YouTube channel qualifies as "a YouTuber" (also also, ARD is not state media, it is public media sponsored by a fee to be independent from the state for historic reasons -> WW2)

[The Flying Sloth]

Are we asking specifically relating to their YouTube channel or in general because more than a few CEOs have Youtube channels, then you have people like Matt from Demolition Ranch who owns both a vet clinic and a branding/merch company. Then you have things like official company Youtube channels. Linus and Hacksmith have The largest amount of employees directly relating to a Youtube channel and not just related businesses that I'm aware of.

[Orangeator]

Just now, The Flying Sloth said:

Are we asking specifically relating to their YouTube channel or in general because more than a few CEOs have Youtube channels, then you have people like Matt from Demolition Ranch who owns both a vet clinic and a branding/merch company. Then you have things like official company Youtube channels. Linus and Hacksmith have The largest amount of employees directly relating to a Youtube channel and not just related businesses that I'm aware of.

Quoting my original post:

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"To be more specific, Elon Musk or some major celeb/business person like Mark Cuban who owns businesses that have many employees whose income has nothing to do with their YouTube channel is not relevant to this question."

So, only YouTubers we are talking about here. Individuals who are known and referred to as YouTubers. Also, we are talking about YouTubers who employ people for their YouTube channel(s), not their other ventures which are completely unrelated to their channels. For example, if Linus were to hire 100 people to start a restaurant chain and a badminton trainer company, those employees would not be counted.

[Orangeator]

2 minutes ago, James Evens said:

They have dedicated Youtube content and hired a lot of youtuber for there content.

Let's say ARD is still very close to politicians given how it works and yes it is not run by a ministry of truth.

 

What is YouTube changed a lot over the years. I don't see a difference between for example  the youtube division of CNN  or BuzzFeed and LMG. Both are highly professional companies and try to optimise the business. There is no longer the YouTube of I just upload a phone video.

 

To be very clear here, I am asking what YouTuber, as in an individual, employs the most amount of people for his/her channel(s). I do not know CNN the YouTuber, I do not refer to Wolf Blitzer as a YouTuber, nor does he own CNN. 

[The_russian]

It's an interesting question. I think the reason it seems like LTT has the most is because they actually show a lot of their employees in videos, especially since most of the writers are regular hosts. I would suspect there are other Youtubers with more employees that do stuff behind the scenes and are not shown on camera, but I can't think of any off the top of my head for sure. One that comes to mind is Dude Perfect, I haven't watched any of their videos in years but from the short clips I have seen it looks like they have a good sized team. Another one is Donut Media, they are a popular automotive content channel and also have multiple hosts. 

[Pixel5]

2 hours ago, Orangeator said:

That's really not an answer to my question. I am asking what YouTuber, as in an individual person, employs more people through their YouTube channel(s) than Linus. Obviously generic CNN is not "YouTuber", and I would not think of Wolf Blitzer as a YouTuber's employee... A YouTuber would be someone like Mr. Beast, or Marques for example. A YouTuber would not be CNN or RT, those are companies. Not YouTube personalities.

Well by that logic LTT doesnt count as well because its a company and not a single person.

[Arika]

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[Arika]

2 hours ago, Orangeator said:

Just curious, how many YouTubers out there employ more people than Linus? Personally, I cannot think of another YouTube personality that has as many full-time/part-time employees as Linus does. I know the HackSmith has a good amount of people working for him, but I don't think quite as many.

 

To be more specific, Elon Musk or some major celeb/business person like Mark Cuban who owns businesses that have many employees whose income has nothing to do with their YouTube channel is not relevant to this question.

 

2 hours ago, Orangeator said:

That's really not an answer to my question. I am asking what YouTuber, as in an individual person, employs more people through their YouTube channel(s) than Linus. Obviously generic CNN is not "YouTuber", and I would not think of Wolf Blitzer as a YouTuber's employee... A YouTuber would be someone like Mr. Beast, or Marques for example. A YouTuber would not be CNN or RT, those are companies. Not YouTube personalities.

The Hacksmith is a company, has been for a long time, infact they just rebranded to Hacksmith industries, so they don't count now according to your clarifiaction.

 

Same with LMG. it started as Linus, but has now evolved into a company

 

When does a "youtuber" become a company?

If you want to get into technicalities, "Achievement Hunter" was Jack and Geoff. they are now a fairly large part of RT, but could easily stand on their own and have numerous employees just under the AH banner.

 

Kizauna AI is a Vtuber personality but has a large company behind "her" (with Kizuna is played by multiple people now as different personalities). Kizuna AI Inc is rumoured to have over 50 employees, which would put them in the same boat as LMG, a bunch of support staff propping up the main talent.

[A51UK]

I get what the he try to say. 

 

Let redefined what YouTube qualifies: let say it a self employed or company (e.g. LLP, LTD, PLC...) where the core business is YouTube related (e.g. put video on YouTube, sell merchandise base on youtube channel), A good example  qualifies company would be of this (e.g. Linus Media Group). A example of company that does not qualifies would be (e.g. floatplane, CNN, BBC, Intel) as there core business is not YouTube related. 

 

[AndreiArgeanu]

Rooster teeth probably?

[ToboRobot]

The Black Rifle Coffee Company is pretty big.

[Orangeator]

4 hours ago, Pixel5 said:

Well by that logic LTT doesnt count as well because its a company and not a single person.

4 hours ago, Arika S said:

 

The Hacksmith is a company, has been for a long time, infact they just rebranded to Hacksmith industries, so they don't count now according to your clarifiaction.

 

Same with LMG. it started as Linus, but has now evolved into a company

 

When does a "youtuber" become a company?

If you want to get into technicalities, "Achievement Hunter" was Jack and Geoff. they are now a fairly large part of RT, but could easily stand on their own and have numerous employees just under the AH banner.

 

Kizauna AI is a Vtuber personality but has a large company behind "her" (with Kizuna is played by multiple people now as different personalities). Kizuna AI Inc is rumoured to have over 50 employees, which would put them in the same boat as LMG, a bunch of support staff propping up the main talent.

 

For there to be employees it has to be a company or a business by definition. I am quite literally asking for what has been the biggest company built off of YouTube for YouTube, by an individual YouTuber. Excluding their employees for other ventures. Essentially, what single YouTuber and his/her channel(s) have the largest dedicate and dependent employee base.

 

So absolutely not by my logic are companies excluded, rather, only companies or corporations could be included. Its rather simple, if the person who owns the channel(s) is not a YouTuber, the channel and its employees do not count. So to be specific as possible, what YouTuber personality, individual person who created a YouTube channel(s), has the most dedicated employees for the channel(s).

 

Also, @Pixel5 how did your post get 4 agreements?... You missed the fundamental point behind my question by literally stating the polar opposite of it... and people agreed. Why? Lol. I am very clearly asking for which youtuber has the largest staff, which would defacto make the channel(s) some company or enterprise. But a necessary condition is that it must be a YouTubers company, neither RT nor CNN is a "YouTubers" company, and arguing so is futile.

[PeachGr]

https://kurzgesagt.org/about/ does that count?

[wall03]

MKBHD?

[Orangeator]

1 hour ago, PeachGr said:

https://kurzgesagt.org/about/ does that count?

From what I can tell from quick research, yes absolutely. Phillip Dettmer is a YouTuber who has a team dedicated to his channel. This is exactly what I am looking for. 

1 hour ago, wall03 said:

MKBHD?

Absolutely he could be included in this. I have no idea what his team size is though.

[Amias]

How are people struggling to see what OP is asking?

 

LTT is a youtube dependent company. It wouldn't exist without youtube, arguably it's grown its revenue streams outside of just youtube ad revenue, however lose youtube and it face some serious problems.

 

The largest youtubers, say T-Series, are not dependent on youtube, they are a record company. Pewdiepie is a pretty minimal streamer (maybe a few 'employees' that edit his videos).  

 

Cocomelon is pretty big, and arguably a youtube dependent company. But they're reported only 20 employees.

 

God knows how many retards in 5-Minute Crafts are employed there.

 

LTT could very well be one of the biggest youtube dependent companies out there.

 

[Guest]

Mr beast had a lot of employees. He doesn't really show them off but he has them. 

 

Some of the film making guys like Freddie W or I think corridor digital and node might have quite a few. 

 

Dude perfect probably has a lot of employees too. 

 

Those are the only ones I can imagine having near 30 total full time individuals at the very least. 

[SpikeSpiegel]

This channel requires a lot of research and staff

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGvIBxqin_rx3sY9qacQEhQ

[Orangeator]

4 minutes ago, CalintzJerevinan said:

This channel requires a lot of research and staff

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGvIBxqin_rx3sY9qacQEhQ

Who is the YouTuber? What YouTube personality owns and operates the channel?

[SpikeSpiegel]

2 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

Whose the YouTuber? What YouTube personality owns and operates the channel?

You can find the info here. https://www.mashed.com/about/

[Orangeator]

15 minutes ago, CalintzJerevinan said:

You can find the info here. https://www.mashed.com/about/

I went to their about page, I cannot figure out who the YouTuber is that is employing these writers. Also, are they employed or are they freelanced writers? There is a meaningful difference there, ask Uber employees, ahem **cough cough**, I mean contractors. 

[PeachGr]

4 hours ago, wall03 said:

MKBHD?

i think he has less than 5 people.

[Mark Kaine]

21 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

ARD is not state media, it is public media sponsored by a fee to be independent from the state for historic reason

Yes, by definition and as a matter of fact it is. 

 

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Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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Sie wurde 1950 gegründet und bildet gemeinsam mit dem ZDF und dem Deutschlandradio den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk in Deutschland. Die ARD wird zum Großteil aus dem Rundfunkbeitrag finanziert 

 

English:

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Working group of the public broadcasters of the Federal Republic of Germany

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It was founded in 1950 and, together with ZDF and Deutschlandradio, forms public broadcasting in Germany. The ARD is largely financed from the broadcasting fee

 

 

ARD and ZDF are controlled by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and that makes them "state media" and also makes them therefore neither independent nor neutral in any way. 

 

 

Edit: I looked this up because I knew it's not *that* clear. 

They do have so called "councils" which are, you guessed it, controlled by the state... 

 

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Die gesetzlichen Bestimmungen für die Rundfunkräte legen die Länder fest. 

(The federal states determine the statutory provisions for the broadcasting councils.)

 

But, I digress, this is probably way too political for this forum, although it's not really political in the sense it's not allowed to discuss I guess, as it is more or less about a definition, but saying TV in Germany is "independent" is rather curious, with how biased they are and who controls them.