Mr. Beast's Squid Game YouTube video cost him $3.5 million to make.

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Why it worked

The video leverages the high curiosity surrounding Mr. Beast's massive production budgets and provides a clear, data-driven answer to a popular question.

Summary

The creator breaks down the production costs and revenue streams of Mr. Beast's Squid Game video to determine if it was profitable. He uses data points like merchandise sales and total channel views to estimate the final profit margin.

Structure

1Introduce the topic of Mr. Beast's Squid Game video budget
2Pose the question of whether the video was profitable
3Analyze revenue sources including merchandise and YouTube views
4Calculate the estimated profit based on the video's share of total views
5Display the final financial breakdown on screen

On-screen text

MR. BEAST. SQUID GAME YOUTUBE VIDEO HIM SOME $3.5 MILLION TO MAKE. THAT MONEY BO MAKE MONEY OR LOSE MONEY? PART NUMBER FOUR. $52 MILLION FROM MERCH SALES ALONE LAST YEAR FROM 2021. HE GOT 5.7 BILLION VIEWS. THAT IS SO MANY EYEBALLS ON MR. BIZ. MR BEAST SQUID GAME VIDEO PRODUCTION COST -$3,500,000 YOUTUBE AD REVENUE +$3,168,000 SPONSORSHIPS +$1,000,000 NEW SUBS +$1,140,000 MERCH +$1,008,000 +$2,816,000 YOUTUBE VIDEO FAN TASTIC.

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#mrbeast #squidgame YouTube video cost him $3.5 million to make! After all his income sources did Mr. Beast make money or lose money? Part four #makemoney #youtube #squidgame #youtubemoney #youtubermoney

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Transcript

Mr. Beast's Squid Game YouTube video cost him $3.5 million to make. Now, with this insanely huge production budget, did this video make money or lose money? Make money, lose money, make money, lose money. Part number four. All right, now, it did come out in a recent interview that he made $52 million from merch sales alone last year from 2021. Now, not all sales came from his YouTube channel. We're going to estimate that 70% of his sales were filtered from YouTube. Now, this video came out at the end of 2021, but if you add in all of his YouTube videos for that entire year, he got 5.7 billion views. Oh, my goodness. That is so many eyeballs on Mr. Biz. That is fantastic. So from that 5.7, this specific video was about 5% of all of the video views. Now, if we times that 5% by the entire sales that were filtered from YouTube, so let's add it to the bank. So this is the total number that he profited from this video. This is the total number that it cost him to produce this video. And this is how much money he made from the Squid Game's YouTube video. Fantastic.