19-year-old Harvard economics student Wesley Wang will be writing and directing a film based on his short nothing, except everything., which he uploaded to YouTube in Sept. 2023. On this episode of the Colin and Samir Show, we talk to Wesley about how he got a deal with Sony Pictures and Darren Aronofsky. We also talk to Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw about the future of the entertainment industry, and where creators fit in.

The Bucket List Family is a family channel that documents the adventures of Jessica, Garrett and their kids as they travel around the world. In this interview, we cover why they started their channel, their work with National Geographic and the family content genre.

Creator, author, and Vlogbrother John Green first broke out into the mainstream spotlight when the film adaptation of his best-selling book 'The Fault in Our Stars' grossed over $300 million at the box office in 2014.

Ten years (and two more adaptations) later, John's 'Turtles All the Ways Down' is releasing on Max. Ahead of the in-person premiere, Publish Press writer Nate Graber-Lipperman sat down with John to hear his thoughts on the "collision course" of YouTube and Hollywood—and how growing online communities too large can paradoxically make their impact lesser.

Plus: Stick to the end for Colin and Samir's thoughts on what creators can learn from John about how to make real impact in viewers' lives.

We've seen a lot of creators ask their audience to pay for content. Sometimes it goes well, and sometimes it doesn't. On this episode of the Colin and Samir Show, we break down a recent example of this going poorly and why.

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On this episode of the show, we take you behind the scenes of our video with Mark Rober. We spent a full day with Mark to learn more about CrunchLabs.

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We talked with MKBHD Marques Brownlee about his largely negative Humane AI pin and Fiskr Ocean reviews.

Author and philosopher Ryan Holiday writes about Stoicism, which is the belief that we can’t control or rely on external events but we can control our ourselves and how we react to them.

Ryan is a prolific creator – he’s written 12 books in ten years, and he writes two daily emails and hosts a daily podcast. But he’s not a YouTube creator, and he thinks totally differently than we do. That’s why we found this conversation so valuable.

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Colin covers three creator economy headlines with Publish Press writers Nate Graber-Lipperman and Hannah Doyle.

On this episode of the Colin and Samir Show, we talk to Jesse Riedel about growing his YouTube channel, the future of watching sports and more.

Why does it seem like so many creators are retiring from YouTube, and then coming back? Colin and Samir explain.

On March 19, creator-owned streaming service Nebula announced its updated slate of scripted and unscripted original content, starting with a new division: Nebula News.

To hear more about the platform's increasingly ambitious projects, Publish Press writer Nate Graber-Lipperman called up Dave Wiskus, the CEO of Nebula. You can listen to their conversation on Nebula's plans for building a "pipeline" of premium creator programming—and why Dave thinks they're best positioned to bridge the gap between traditional media/entertainment and the creator economy.

Plus: Stick to the end to hear Colin and Samir's thoughts on how Nebula might disrupt our industry.