Viral Nation

• Viral Nation says it’s using AI to ensure a safe ecosystem for brands–and put more money in creators’ pockets
• When networks turned him down, Xavier Mortimer made his own show on YouTube. Now, with over 30 million followers, he’s ready to try TV again.

  Mortimer fell in love with magic when he was a kid growing up in Briançon, France. The catalyst, as he told Vegas Never Sleeps in 2019, was seeing a local magician performing at a restaurant. His father subsequently gifted him a book on magic, and Mortimer never looked back. In just a decade, he went from hawking flowers at a local market so he could buy props, to performing his own show at Theatre Le Temple in Paris.

  
• Dr. Fran is battling the TikTok era of medical misinformation

  We are living in a new age of medical misinformation. The snake oil salesmen and panacea peddlers of the past had to pull their wagons from town to town or shout their messages through snail-mail advertising. But in today's world of widespread social media and AI-generated answers, people are surrounded by sources of misinformation.

  
• Viral Nation and Fremantle’s new deal puts creators in charge of original premium series, starting with ‘Model Creator’ and ‘Cr1me C0de’

  
• “I’m a neurotic gay Jew. I’ve been funny my whole life.”: Max Cohen on becoming the internet’s favorite Murray Hill Boy
• Creators like the McCarty family are poised to take over Hollywood. Viral Nation wants to help them get there.
• Viral Nation is known for being one of the biggest digital talent agencies in the world. But it does a lot more than representation.
• Like Nastya and Viral Nation partner with high fashion agency Ford Models
• Viral Nation taps Nicholas Spiro as CPO, Ahmad Nassri as CTO
• The Harlem Globetrotters’ content creation is getting a boost
• Viral Nation’s new product aims to protect companies from copyright issues
• Viral Nation’s going 360 with new creator representation execs