In this episode of Creative Disruption, host Ricky Ray Butler sits down with Colie Nuanez, a social media influencer and content creator, to discuss her strategies for leveraging data and analytics to build and grow her online following. With over 8 million TikTok followers and 2 million YouTube subscribers, Colie is a prime example of a new generation of creators who have honed their skills by analyzing the successes and failures of those who came before them. Throughout the conversation, Colie...
May 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Kevin Langue, up and coming YouTube star, joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share his journey into growing and building his audiences and community through data. Kevin's love for acting combined with his business acumen has skyrocketed him into a well known face in the Creator community, bringing fun and entertainment to his ever growing fan base. On this episode, Kevin and Ricky Ray geek out about how to leverage AI and data to grow audiences while staying true to yourself in the...
Nov 05, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Garrett Watts, an OG YouTuber who started back in 2012, joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share how he went from working at Funny or Die to becoming a YouTube (and now TikTok) sensation. With almost 10 million followers across his social platforms, Watts creates fun content that aims to drive curiosity and wonderment. On this episode, Watts has a lively conversation with Ricky Ray about how he got started, what inspires him to continue creating content, and advice he has for new a...
Oct 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Davis Burleson, up and coming TikTok star and host of What’s Poppin’ show, joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share how he went from a DoorDash driver in high school to amassing almost 3M TikTok subscribers in only two years! A natural in front of the camera, Davis balances his day to day as a student with being a prolific content creator, and was recently the red carpet correspondent at The Global Citizen’s Festival as well the host of the Grammys backstage stream on TikTok. On th...
Aug 27, 2022•49 min
Dominique Barrett aka King Vader joins Ricky Ray Butler in this episode of Creative Disruption to share his evolution from a creator on Vine with 500K followers to almost 10M across his socials today. Inspired by his passion for anime, visual effects, and film, King Vader has transcended genres and is now an incredibly successful actor, director, writer, and entertainer. With a hit Netflix short collaboration and numerous projects underway, King Vader shares his origin story, and what audiences ...
Jul 09, 2022•50 min
Dan Markham from What’s Inside joins Ricky Ray Butler on Creative Disruption to share the channel’s origin story, and how him and his son Lincoln grew a school science project to a social media sensation with over 1.5 billion views. Today, What’s Inside has almost 10M subscribers and creates family friendly content that is not only inspirational and educational but also highly entertaining. Dan has an fascinating conversation with Ricky Ray about his family, his perspectives on platform monetiza...
May 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking for...
May 21, 2022•13 min
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking for...
May 21, 2022•14 min
MrBeast raises $50M for charity between #TeamTrees and #TeamSeas, and is excited for the next big thing. Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has a...
May 07, 2022•14 min
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking for...
Apr 30, 2022•12 min
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson returns to Creative Disruption after 2 years to share updates about his life, his videos, and the creator community at large. With over 200M YouTube subscribers, multiple successful businesses including MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a team of 100+ employees, MrBeast is doing it all. As one of the most innovative and generous creators on the planet, MrBeast has an incredible conversation with Ricky Ray Butler about his aspirations, motivations, and plans looking for...
Apr 23, 2022•11 min
Jake Watson and the Corridor Digital team have successfully unlocked monetization of their data and audiences. By leveraging their own platform CorridorDigital.com, the creators have been able to truly tell authentic stories rather than just trigger an algorithm to go viral. Ricky and Jake discuss the hype around the Metaverse, NFTs, VR, and the impact these technologies have on content and audiences alike.
Mar 26, 2022•1 hr 21 min
In this episode I sit down with Matthew Doyle, better known by his YouTube name 'Zealous'. Recently, Matthew was the lucky winner of MrBeast's "Get This Random Person 1,000,000 Subscribers" challenge. Since winning the challenge, Matthew has grown his page to over 2.6M subscribers. In the episode we chat about everything including his experience with MrBeast, how winning the challenge has changed his life, what the future holds…and maybe even some predictions on views for MrBeast's "Squid Games'...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Description: In this episode I sit down with James Hobson, founder of the YouTube channel Hacksmith Industries. James’s channel has amassed a following of over 12M, where he and his team bring fictional items from video games, movies and TV shows to life. Beginning as a mechanical engineer, James took his skills and creative thought processes to create an innovative channel that would not only please his audiences but would regularly bring these otherworldly props such as Captain America’s Elect...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 10 min
In this episode I sit down to talk with sisters and social media personalities Ashley Nichole and Alisha Marie. With a combined 20M+ followers across all platforms, Ashley and Alisha have found creator success both together as well as individually by honing in on their particular audiences and finding sustainability in diversification. While not only do they continue to pave a way in the creator economy with their YouTube, TikTok and other social media content, but they have also began dipping t...
Nov 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min
In this episode I sit down to talk with Ben Taylor The Chief AI Evangelist At DataRobot.
Oct 23, 2021•1 hr 9 min
In this episode I sit down to talk with Brent Rivera and Max Levine. As a content creator who has amassed a following of over 80 million across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, Brent has become a power house in the constantly evolving creator community. Working with his business partner Max Levine, who has spent years with Brent helping to build out his successful career, the two found a way to use their combined years of experience to create a data driven strategy for success across the ...
Sep 19, 2021•47 min
In this episode I talk with Sam Sheffer, a technologist, YouTuber, reviewer…and many other titles! Sam has paved his own path into the media landscape through his love for all things technology and using it to connect with his ever-growing audiences. From working at Engadget to The Verge to Mashable, Sam shares his story and what led him to opening his very own “Sam Sheffer Productions”. We also discuss three pieces of advice for creators craving success!
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 21 min
In this episode I talk with Gregg Bilson, CEO of one of the largest Prop Houses in the world, Independent Studio Services (ISS). With over 1.5M props, ISS handles the props for approximately 70% of all Hollywood productions. Not only does ISS work with media giants like Marvel, Disney and Netflix, they are one of the first prop houses to delve into digital content, working directly with creators. In this episode Gregg gives his take on why props are so important…and also shares some incredible s...
Sep 13, 2021•55 min
In this episode we talk with Zach King an internet personality, filmmaker, and probably most know a an illusionist. Zach first went viral when he focused his attention vine developing what he called "magic vines." At this time Zack King has over 11 million subscribers on YouTube and holds the world record for most watched video on TikTok. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the world...
Sep 13, 2021•54 min
In this episode we talk with Richard Hull the Founder and CEO of Pongalo, formerly know at Latin Everywhere. Rich Hull is an American media and entertainment executive, and film and television producer, who's companies control one of the largest libraries of Spanish content in the world.
Sep 13, 2021•52 min
In this episode Chris Moore the Hollywood movie producers returns to Creative Disruption to speak with us about the forever changing movie industry. The world pandemic forever altered the way consumers can consume big budget movies from their own homes.
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 39
In this episode we talk with Hollywood producer Lori McCreary. Lori is best know for producing the movie Invictus, and the TV series Madam Secretary. With her Data Science background from UCLA, Lori has been a pioneering the movement of bring an analytical approach to Hollywood film. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are co...
Sep 03, 2021•56 min•Ep. 40
In this episode we speak with Dave Lazar the Chief of Stage TEN where they focus in on making the next wave of live, interactive and transactional content possible with an incredible team and breakthrough technologies. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging. Subscribe To YouTube...
Jul 10, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In this episode we speak with Dave Lazar the Chief of Stage TEN where they focus in on making the next wave of live, interactive and transactional content possible with an incredible team and breakthrough technologies. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral EvesInsights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging. Subscribe To YouTube...
Feb 10, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 38
In this episode we speak with Ben Hagarty, who went from pounding the pavement as an Iowa-based freelance content creator and musician to working alongside some of the world's biggest and most prolific social media influencers like Casey Neistat to music artist such as Jay-Z. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral EvesInsights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging....
Feb 06, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 37
In this episode we speak with Elliott Watkins aka Muselk the Executive Director at Click Management. Muselk stops by to break down what it takes to find long term success on YouTube. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral EvesInsights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging. Subscribe To YouTube...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 36
In this episode we speak with Hank Green the co-creator of VidCon and one-half of the YouTube production Vlogbrothers. Here we focus in on creator empowerment, capitalizing on content and the sustainability of current video platforms. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral EvesInsights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging. Subscribe To YouTube...
Jan 30, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 35
In this episode we speak with Grace Watkins the Co-founder & CEO at Click Management. Her company represent the worlds biggest online gaming personalities. Their talent generate more than 700+ million views online per month. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral EvesInsights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging. Subscribe To YouTube...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 13 min
In this episode we speak with Larry Fitzgibbon the co-founder and CEO of Tastemade. We focus in on the success of short term content from SnapChat to the viral TikTok and how to leverage your audience for massive success. Creative Disruption Podcast with Ricky Ray Butler and Derral Eves Insights and stories from leading creators, writers, producers and marketers on how the worlds of advertising, entertainment, and data science are converging. Subscribe To YouTube...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 33
