Chris Unger
YouTube star MrBeast is launching a competition show on Amazon Prime Video in which 1,000 contestants will compete for a $5 million prize.
Amazon announced Monday that it's bringing the "Beast Games" show to its streaming platform, which is based on MrBeast's YouTube show of the same name.
It said the $5 million would be the "biggest single prize in the history of television and streaming."
MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, said: "It's gonna be an insane show." A launch date is yet to be confirmed but he'll "reveal more later this year."
He also told "The Colin and Samir Show" on YouTube the new competition would be "like our normal videos, but just 20 times better."
"Money's not a constraint on the show, and so I can also just do anything, which is like a lot more freeing than you would think and so mind-blowing," Donaldson added.
In a press release about the Amazon show, Donaldson said: "My goal is to make the greatest show possible and prove YouTubers and creators can succeed on other platforms." He added that Amazon gave him "creative control" to "try and make it happen."
It's unclear what impact the show might have on his YouTube following. He is one of the video site's highest-paid creators and his channel has about 240 million subscribers.
Donaldson recently offered some advice for anyone trying to follow in his footsteps.
He said it's "painful" to see people drop out of school or quit their jobs prematurely to pursue a career as a content creator. "For every person like me that makes it, thousands don't. Keep that in mind and be smart plz," he said on X.
Donaldson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
