Sean Evans, Rhett & Link and Marques Brownlee Celebrate 20 Years of YouTube at SXSW: ‘Everyone Comes to YouTube and Then Everything Grows’
variety.comAbigail Lee The Variety Podcasting Brunch presented by YouTube at SXSW featured creators Sean Evans, Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal and Marques Brownlee discussing their video content amidst YouTube’s 20th anniversary.
The discussion, moderated by Variety‘s Clayton Davis, was a live taping of the Variety Awards Circuit podcast. Evans spoke about his YouTube series “Hot Ones,” which features celebrity guests answering questions while eating chicken wings.
McLaughlin and Neal explained the process of hosting talk show “Good Mythical Morning,” and Brownlee described his approach for the tech-focused “WVFRM Podcast.” The speakers broke down how they navigate YouTube.
For Evans, the platform was key to getting a show like “Hot Ones” off the ground. “I think what’s amazing about YouTube and having the show on YouTube was that it wasn’t a big hit at first.
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