At content showcase Mipcom on Sunday, creator Dhar Mann – who has 170 million followers on YouTube – spoke about his partnerships with Hollywood studios, how he intends to launch one new series every single month on his YouTube channel, and his vision for Creator City in Los Angeles.
\n\nIn some respects, Mann’s production company Dhar Mann Studios is starting to resemble the legacy studios whose foundations are being shaken by creators like him. It is, for example, making five half hours a week of scripted shows. Now, he moving to the next step.
\n\nEight years ago, Mann started his business in the living room of his apartment and was shooting on iPhones. Now, he has just purchased a four-acre campus with nine sound stages. “We’re going to have about 175 sets. It’s going to be able to have about 15 concurrent productions happening at the same time. It’s called Creator City, and it’s basically where creators, brands and culture all come together in one place,” he explained.
\n\n“All the sets that we have in our current studio right now are unbranded sets because five years ago nobody was taking me serious, nobody was taking YouTubers very serious, but now…
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