Second City StudiosRecurring revenue for creators and media brands

Turn your
audience into
recurring revenue.

We build the content, membership and operating systems that turn an audience into customers, and keep those customers paying every single month.

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KSI · 30M+ subscribers

Misfits Boxing

Total views generated

Across every client channel and format we've built.

4.1B+

Track record

4.1B+

Views produced

$5.3M

Attributable client revenue

625%

Membership revenue growth

21

Clients

01The problem

Your content should do more than get views. It should get customers to pay and stay.

Most creator businesses are built to win the algorithm and lose the customer. The audience grows, sponsorships plateau, and the whole operation stays one bad quarter away from starting over.

We build the other half: the offer, the membership, the retention loop and the production system that converts attention into revenue you can forecast.

Create Now or Never, our operating principle in every build.

02What we do

One audience. Three levers to make it worth more.

Every engagement runs on the same three levers. Some brands need all of them. Most need one fixed properly before the others matter.

Strategy & positioning

Revenue strategy & advisory

We map the offer, the pricing and the path a viewer takes from a free video to a paid relationship, then hold the line on it.

  • Offer & pricing architecture
  • Audience-to-customer mapping
  • Monetisation roadmap & forecast
  • Quarterly operating reviews

Recurring revenue engine

Recurring Revenue engine

Design, launch and operate the membership: tiers, onboarding, perks, retention and the rituals that keep churn low.

  • Tier & perk design
  • Launch and upgrade sequencing
  • Retention & winback programs
  • Member analytics & reporting

Production system

Content engine buildout

Formats, cadence, crew and workflow, built so the channel keeps compounding without the founder living in the edit bay.

  • Format development & testing
  • Studio & crew standup
  • Editorial calendar operations
  • Thumbnail & packaging system
03Case Studies

Built the #1 membership on YouTube, for a top personal finance creator.

Operated as Head of Memberships & Content Leader. Full stack build: offer, tiers, retention, programming and the production engine behind the flagship format.

Built the engine for a Top 3 Podcast's official membership.

ONE OF THE LARGEST MEMBERSHIPS IN THE WORLD

135,000+

Members

Top 3 Podcast on Youtube

Flagship membership

#1 on YouTube

Built a content engine, then a standalone app.

Built the #1 membership on YouTube by creating a content engine for pre production, production and filming, and post production packaging, then launched a standalone app to own the relationship, the data and the recurring revenue.

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App Created
9+
Formats built
Top 3
Podcast on YouTube
625%
Membership revenue growth
VIDDAL profileVIDDAL@viddaltherilist · YouTube
Athlete-led media
Revenue createdBoxing & entertainment

Turned an athlete's access into an entertainment brand.

Revenue created

From one format line, in year one.

$2.2M

1.17M
Subscribers
117.7M+
Public views
487
Videos published
THE W.A.D.E. CONCEPT profileTHE W.A.D.E. CONCEPT@TheWADEConcept · YouTube
Podcast network
Revenue createdCombat sports commentary

Turned fight-night coverage into a membership business.

Revenue created

Recurring memberships plus paid live coverage.

$567K

403K
Subscribers
170M+
Public views
1,598
Videos published
CHEFFOTTO profileCHEFFOTTO@CheffOtto · YouTube
Food & entertainment
McDonald's pizza remix episode thumbnail
Longform views generatedFast food experiments

Turned restaurant remixes into a repeatable format.

Longform views generated

Longform views generated: idea, script, edit, thumbnail and title/SEO, end to end.

25M+

12.2M
Subscribers
850
Videos published
25M+
Longform views
THE DEJI SHOW profileTHE DEJI SHOW@Deji · YouTube
Original series / S2
The Deji Show Season 2 episode thumbnail
Longform views generatedComedy & reality

Gave a legacy creator a new season with its own identity.

Longform views generated

Longform views generated: Season 2 creative direction, motion graphics, editing and packaging.

6M+

12.8M
Subscribers
6M+
Longform views
S2
Motion graphics + editing
04My Youtube Thumbnail packaging catalog

Nine selected videos. Fifteen million public views.

I designed these Youtube Thumbnails alongside the packaging strategy behind their success.

Selected client thumbnail, health audit episode

2.3M views

Selected client thumbnail, benefits fraud episode

900K views

Selected client thumbnail, KSI Misfits Boxing event

1.1M views

Selected client thumbnail, relationship narrative episode

2.0M views

Selected client thumbnail, buy now pay later episode

1.2M views

Selected client thumbnail, credit spiral episode

2.5M views

Selected client thumbnail, This is insane episode

2.4M views

Selected client thumbnail, subculture spending episode

1.4M views

Selected client thumbnail, flagship family episode

1.5M views

Selected public performance

15.3M+

combined views

2.5MTop selected video
1.7MAverage per video
9 / 9At 900K+ views
05I BUILD FULL CONTENT PROGRAMMING

I built an engine for the #1 Membership on Youtube.

16 shows / week

Three originals every Monday to Friday plus a Saturday premiere. A full month of membership programming, built to sustain retention and demand, not a content treadmill.

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Flagship extensionsOriginal franchisesCommentary + utilitySaturday premiere
06The receipts

A format is not a video. It is a system that keeps paying off.

Total client views
4.1B+
Total client views
External client revenue generated
$5.3M
External client revenue generated
Membership revenue growth
625%
Membership revenue growth
Client videos delivered
3,000+
Client videos delivered

Compounding return of one owned format

LaunchEpisode after episode, clip after clipOngoing

Client impact and revenue figures supplied by the studio; public channel metrics independently checked.

07The process

Build the revenue path before the publishing calendar.

Four phases, run in order. Nothing gets published until we know what it is supposed to sell and who it is supposed to keep.

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Diagnose

Audit the audience, the offer and the numbers. We find where attention leaks before it ever reaches a paid product.

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Design

Build the offer, the membership tiers, the pricing and the conversion path, on paper, with a forecast attached.

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Install

Stand up the production system, the launch sequence and the reporting so the machine runs without heroics.

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Compound

Operate and iterate: retention, upgrades, new formats. Every quarter the base of recurring revenue gets deeper.

08Questions before we build

Before we build.

Work with us

Build the audience once. Get paid every month.

Five quick questions, one at a time. About 30 seconds. If it's a fit, we come back within one business day to scope it.

Create Now or Never. We take on a limited number of builds a month, so the system gets the attention it deserves.

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