Bright Side (stylized in all caps) is a
Cypriot
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YouTube
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channel operated by media publisher
TheSoul Publishing. Founded in 2017, the channel uploads videos regarding
how-to
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trivia as well as history and knowledge. The YouTube channel has over 44.6 million subscribers to its main channel, and over 10.938 billion views. The channel has over seven thousand videos.
History
Bright Side was created on 15 March 2017, and posts videos that are a mix of “facts”, riddles and
life hack
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s.
Bright Side has been described as a "popular
content farm
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channel".
In June 2019, Bright Side popularized a 382-day fast held in 1965 by
Angus Barbieri, after creating an animated video recounting the event. The video received over 300,000 views within a week of its upload.
Its most popular video is called "13 Tips on How to Survive Wild Animal Attacks", which was created in October 2017. , the video still has 93 million views.
The channel is operated by
TheSoul Publishing, a company founded by Russian developers Pavel Radaev and Marat Mukhametov. The company owns 100+ channels including ''
5-Minute Crafts
5-Minute Crafts is a DIY-style YouTube channel owned by TheSoul Publishing. , it is the 13th most-subscribed channel on the platform. The channel is also the 5th most-followed Facebook pages. It is based in Limassol, Cyprus.
Video format
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'', ''5-Minute Crafts Kids'', ''5-Minute Crafts Girly'', ''7-Second Riddles'' and ''5-Minute Magic''.
In 2019, the company operated 40 Facebook pages in 10 languages and had 550 employees.
In 2021 the company had 100 channel brands in 19 different languages, with a 2,100 member global workforce.
See also
*
List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
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References
External links
* {{YouTube, c=UC4rlAVgAK0SGk-yTfe48Qpw
YouTube channels launched in 2017
TheSoul Publishing
Content farms