Channels with Peter Kafka
Channels with Peter Kafka
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How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business
37 minutes Posted Jun 3, 2026 at 8:00 am.
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Dhar Mann’s videos look simple, because they are simple: Someone acts badly, someone learns a lesson, everyone gets a moral by the end. You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy these, but it helps.The business behind them is complex. Mann has built a scripted-video studio that turns out TV-length episodes in weeks, generating billions of views a month. Now he tells me he’s expanding beyond YouTube and Facebook into places like Samsung TVs and Fox-backed microdramas, and he thinks the assembly line he’s built will work, there, too.
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