I guess enough YouTube subscribers carries some clout.
Cleetus McFarland pilots a Goodyear Blimp
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Hard to pin down the numbers but it looks like best case scenario, he's making $1MM a year or at least $1k per video, likely more.
Says 4.29 million subscribers as of right now.
Looked up where this was. Wingfoot One at Pompano Beach Airpark in Florida. The other two based in the US are based in Ohio and Southern California. The new ones are actually dirigibles with rigid frames and not true blimps.
Years ago I was driving to my branch office in Fredericksburg, Va. There was a tiny airfield beside the road and there was the Goodyear Blimp. I think it had been to either Baltimore or DC for a football game. They were taking off. Two guys were holding lines at the back and one guy in front. The front guy let go and the nose pointed up about 45 degrees and then the two guys at the rear let go and it shot up really quickly. One of the coolest things I had seen.
Now add in merch sales, hosting live events at a race track he owns, hosting live events at racetracks he doesn't own, and a fully in-house streaming service for these events that runs $20/month or $120/year.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...nching-the-netflix-of-grassroots-motorsports/
From the article:
Running the math, assuming a mix of yearly subscribers and month-to-month subs, the streaming service could be pulling somewhere near $20 million/year in revenue. Article also notes he has 35 employees on staff to make all this run and is fully self-funded (no outside investors).
Dude's killing it.
The pilot's answers in the video's first half are interesting.
LOVED seeing the closeup shots of the landing.
Still, common to all videos, too much filler and "good old boy" chatter.
LOVED seeing the closeup shots of the landing.
Still, common to all videos, too much filler and "good old boy" chatter.
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Not sure I’d call it pilot - but I did get to maneuver one for a while - the real pilot did the take off and landing …
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was not calling what I did as piloting - slow motion steering at best ?
was not calling what I did as piloting - slow motion steering at best ?
Sure. My kid has been at the controls a few aircraft. On the ground. Definitely not piloting.
I have noticed that kids at the controls of anything make noises like they’re firing machine guns. Even a transport helicopter or the wheel of a naval vessel.
Whistling Diesel supposedly made over 5 million last year. That could be his YouTube and promotional swag etc. When Tyler Hoover posted his F-150 Lighting video he said it made him 20k on one video! Apparently he's on girlfriend number 3 wife one & two are out and he just bought 50ish acres in Kansas and had a huge shop put in next door.
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I believe it! Cody also came out with his own drink "Alcolo" and has promotional sponsors for his videos which are outside of the YT payments system, so who knows, he might even be making more. Supposedly he will destroy a Bugatti Veyron when he hits 10MM subs and he just bought an F1 car, who knows what will happen to that.
Guess I'm out of the loop, never heard about him before. Thought he was a character from The Simpsons.
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