It seems Rumble is being more careful with their spending. So if Rumble is backing out on big deals like they did with It'sAGundam (1 or 2 months ago) then this evidence goes towards Nick's contract not being renewed. Or being renewed at a much lower price. I'd be shocked if they renew.
Wow it's almost as if Rumble realized that wasting money on contracts for Rekieta Law or whatever the fuck "It'sAGundam" is was not a good business decision.
If Rumble has really slammed the brakes on signing mid-size YouTube creators to contracts to the extent where this guy is having to DM them on Twitter to figure out what's going on, that's probably being based on data from existing deals.
With the Crowder deal it seems to me like instead of signing tons of nobodies to small dollar deals they're pooling the money to sign a couple of massive names. That's what most companies trying to seed platform growth with exclusivity deals tend to do anyway (Spotify with their podcasts, Microsoft with Mixer, etc).
I will note if they don't want It'sAGundam (almost 750K subs on Youtube), but they wanted Rekieta (under 500K subs on Youtube), that strongly hints that they found Nick appealing because of the legal commentary. For "colorful commentary" on other issues, they could have gone with a host of other people (to include It'sAGundam).
This could potentially be BIG problem given how much Nick whines about not wanting to lawsplain anymore, and how he'd much rather talk about coooooming and other stupid shit. Which is to say, they might have expected X, but ended up with Y.
No. I don't think that's it. Rekieta in particular was likely brought in as a super chat specialist (he's been open about YouTube contacting him to try to pick his brain about how successful he was being at getting super chats) since he was pulling in $1800 a night regularly before his YT ban in October. According to the data
@Potatoherder was posting he's lucky to get $300 on a good night on Rumble now.
They have Fresh and Fit on their platform, and while I have no idea whether they have a contract or watched any of it, that seems to be a non-boomer version of whatever Nick was going for. I think the bigger issue is whatever Nick's content is now, it isn't generating that much revenue for anybody involved.
They also signed DJ Akademiks (2.67M YT subscribers) and JiDion (7.01M YT subscribers) to deals this month, so I think they're just aiming higher now.
When does his contract come up for renewal?
That's an interesting question.
How about both? WTF Wednesday is boring and unoriginal, and COOM Friday is so boring and dumb that it might actually be original.
But those are still more watchable than his other shows, which are just Tim Pool knockoffs but 2 days late (since he was "dehydrated" on the day the news broke or something)