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Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is one of the most popular content creators in the community. Furthermore, he became the talk of the town after crossing 100 million subscribers on YouTube. Indeed, it’s a monumental achievement for any creator and requires a lot of hard work and love for the platform.

However, it’s amazing how Jimmy was a build a massive empire on YouTube starting from nothing. Jimmy was able to make such a big name in the community thanks to his content and management team. Interestingly, Reed Duchscher, who is the talent manager of Jimmy, recently opened up about a MrBeast’s secret which helped him gain 10 million subscribers in a year.

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Continue reading to find out more about Jimmy’s secret strategy.

MrBeast’s manager reveals Jimmy’s secret strategy to dominate YouTube

Jimmy has officially become the second individual creator to cross the 100 million subscribers milestone after PewDiePie. However, the YouTube Star dreamt of everything in his room and joined the platform back in February 2012. Jimmy struggled a lot at the start of his YouTube career and used to make videos in his room.

However, everything changed when Jimmy met Reed back in January 2018. In a recent Colin and Samir podcast, Reed talked about his first encounter and expressions of MrBeast. According to Reed, he met Jimmy on Twitter and he got impressed by MrBeast’s addiction and love for the platform.

He was amazed to notice Jimmy’s vast vision and how he dreams to become one of the biggest creators on YouTube. In his own words, “He basically sent me a Twitter message and for the next month, we just spoke every few days. I thought he was just the most fascinating person because I would just listen to him talk about YouTube.”

During the podcast, Reed reveals how much dedicated Jimmy was to YouTube. He also revealed that, back in 2018, Jimmy showed him a graph in which he compared his videos on the basis of CTR (Click Through Rate) and AVD (Average View Duration). After crossing 1 million subscribers, MrBeast started figuring out more about his viewer’s liking to implement that on his videos.

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Unlike some creators, he didn’t start making similar content to gain more views with no vision. He was able to figure out the best strategy to attract viewers’ attention and keep them entertained throughout the video. With the help of the aforementioned graph, Jimmy was able to get to the bottom of the concept of thumbnails.

To this day, Jimmy believes that thumbnails play an important part in gaining viewers’ attention. Then later, he was able to figure out the type of content his audience wants and was able to cross 10 million subscribers in just a year, thanks to this strategy.

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Well, MrBeast has become such an iconic name in the community and this is one of the secret strategies that helped him create such a vast empire on the platform. What are your thoughts on MrBeast and his monumental achievements? Let us know in the comments down below.

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