Julia Alexander
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609 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Jun
Julia Alexander’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were investing in Mr. Beast to make this original content for Amazon.
And that same week, it was like the next day or two days later, Mr. Beast was on stage with Neil Mohan, who's the CEO of YouTube, and said, why would I ever leave YouTube?
Like, why would I ever go and do something exclusively in the Hollywood system when my audience is here?
And the larger part of that conversation that you can see play out, and I'm going to use Mr. Beast not as the only creator, but I think as kind of, you know, this large creator who has all these opportunities available to him as a example of what may happen with creators.
If you look at what he then does over the next couple of years, he's publicly talking to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about how he uses their platforms to monetize the same video, but cut for kind of different audiences.
And I think what we're entering, which is really fun, is this period of true non-exclusivity for top creators who go like, I'm going to go make a movie with A24 because I have this
filmmaker talent inside of me I really want to explore and I came up on YouTube.
But I'm also going to continue producing long-form content or short-form content for these platforms and monetizing it because I understand that it takes years to develop a project in Hollywood.
It may or may not go anywhere.
As you know, David, tons of projects don't actually go anywhere.
And so I'm not going to give up the advantage of scale and reach on a platform
like YouTube, even though I'm not going to rely purely on the monetization from AdSense or whatever it might be.
So the future of being a creator within this world might look like you have an overall deal with Universal Pictures or with 20th Century Fox or whatever you're doing, and you're focusing on developing projects every few years where you're doing this big, big, big push into the mainstream.
And then you've got an extended podcast that you're monetizing through Patreon, and then you're doing stuff with Instagram brand deals via Reels.
And I think
that moment of Hollywood understandably saying, we're not going to have the type of star structure we had in the 30s and 40s up through the 90s, where we have a talent that we really rely on, that we're going to pay a ton of money to have exclusive Christopher Nolan movies.
But instead, we're going to try and tap into the converting of an audience that we are not seeing come to theaters, that we are losing out to YouTube, is where that merge kind of happens.
I think there's a percentage of actors, and I'll use the term auteur, who's still going to come up and say, I'm interested in pursuing more traditional art forms, and I want to spend my time working with truly great visionaries, and I want to spend my time thinking about my career as an actor, my career as a director, my career as a writer.
Timothee Chalamet, Michael B. Jordan, kind of within that where they're really hyper focused on choosing the projects they want to work with.
At the same time, it's a very select percentage of people.
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