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 - Feastables in 30,000+ retail locations with zero marginal cost customer acquisition vs traditional CPG 10-15% ad spend
 - Five verticals: software (Viewstats), CPG (Feastables, Lunchly), health/wellness, media, video games
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2025-03-10-bloomberg-mrbeast-feastables-more-money-than-youtube]] | Added: 2026-03-15*
+
+2024 actual financials confirm the model: media lost $80M, Feastables generated $250M revenue with $20M+ profit. 2025-2029 projections show revenue growing from $899M to $4.78B, with media becoming only 1/5 of total sales by 2026. The $5B valuation is pricing a proven model, not a speculative one.
+
 ---
 
 Relevant Notes:

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 domain: entertainment
 secondary_domains: [internet-finance]
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 priority: high
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 ## Content
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 PRIMARY CONNECTION: when profits disappear at one layer of a value chain they emerge at an adjacent layer through the conservation of attractive profits
 WHY ARCHIVED: Strongest real-world evidence of conservation of attractive profits in entertainment — content profits disappeared ($-80M), emerged at adjacent layer (Feastables $+20M), but the AGGREGATE system is profitable because content creates audience at zero marginal cost
 EXTRACTION HINT: The key insight isn't "MrBeast is rich" — it's that content-as-loss-leader at this scale proves the attractor state mechanism. Focus on the structural economics, not the personality.
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- Beast Industries media business (YouTube + Amazon Prime) lost $80M in 2024
+- Feastables generated $250M revenue and $20M+ profit in 2024
+- Feastables projected $520M revenue in 2025 vs $288M from YouTube
+- Media projected to be only 1/5 of total Beast Industries sales by 2026
+- Beast Industries raising at $5B valuation
+- Beast Industries revenue projections: $899M (2025), $1.6B (2026), $4.78B (2029)
+- Feastables distributed through 30,000+ retail locations across US, Canada, Mexico
+- Traditional CPG brands (Hershey's, Mars) spend 10-15% of revenue on advertising
+- Beast Industries operates five verticals: software (Viewstats), CPG (Feastables, Lunchly), health/wellness, media, video games