{"id":18485,"date":"2025-08-31T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18485"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:42:32","slug":"best-of-2025-so-far-the-mozart-of-the-attention-economy-why-mrbeast-is-the-worlds-biggest-youtube-star-podcast-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18485","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2025 \u2026 so far: \u2018The Mozart of the attention economy\u2019: why MrBeast is the world\u2019s biggest YouTube star \u2013 podcast | YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we\u2019ve chosen it.<\/p>\n<p>This week, from June: he\u2019s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive \u2013 and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast\u2019s videos simply very savvy clickbait \u2013 or acts of avant garde genius?<\/p>\n<p>Written and read by Mark O\u2019Connell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we\u2019ve chosen it. This week, from June: he\u2019s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive \u2013 and showered vast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[1865,752,1404,11291,11292,515,622,4742,1265],"class_list":{"0":"post-18485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-attention","9":"tag-biggest","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-mozart","12":"tag-mrbeast","13":"tag-podcast","14":"tag-star","15":"tag-worlds","16":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}