Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I was very close to using Kevin from The Office to award bonuses to my employees a couple of months ago. I was really interested in doing it. But my concern was that he wouldn't do it as the character Kevin but rather as the actor Brian. I was less excited about that. There ended up being a timing issue so we didn't do it, but I think we should have.
I didn't double check so it could be complete bullshit, but I heard that guy's making $1m+ yearly just off of these cameos. Pretty crazy, if true.. [Reply]
Originally Posted by vailpass:
Interesting. Is Dwight Schrute an option?
There were a few Office characters, but the only major characters doing it are Kevin, Meredith, and Oscar (edit: and Stanley). There are a bunch of minor characters like the woman in the warehouse, Pam's mom, etc.
Kevin is apparently one of the most successful people on the platform. I read something just last week where he's topped $1 million in fees. He's in a good sweet spot of being affordable and highly recognizable. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
I didn't double check so it could be complete bullshit, but I heard that guy's making $1m+ yearly just off of these cameos. Pretty crazy, if true..
This sounded crazy, then I looked it up.
Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone on The Office, is 2020's top-earning celebrity on Cameo.
Baumgartner made over $1 million USD from the personalized video sharing service this year, Cameo creator Steve Galanis revealed on The New York Times' Sway podcast (via BuzzFeed). The Office actor charges $195 per video, as of this writing.
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
I didn't double check so it could be complete bullshit, but I heard that guy's making $1m+ yearly just off of these cameos. Pretty crazy, if true..
Yeah, you beat me to it. It's impressive that he's monetized it so well. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
There were a few Office characters, but the only major characters doing it are Kevin, Meredith, and Oscar. There are a bunch of minor characters like the woman in the warehouse, Pam's mom, etc.
Kevin is apparently one of the most successful people on the platform. I read something just last week where he's topped $1 million in fees. He's in a good sweet spot of being affordable and highly recognizable.
Seems like Dwight could make a killing. Meredith is gold too though. I see your point: are you getting the character or the person? [Reply]
If he's making over $1 million, let's assume that's top-line revenue. So he's making less as Cameo takes their cut. But $1 million means that he's doing a little more than 5,000 videos a year.
If each video takes him ten minutes to read and prepare (totally guessing there), then that's 800 hours or so. So he's doing it all day on Monday and Tuesday, then taking five days off. If his cut is 80 percent (total guess again), he's making $800,000.
I wonder what he was making on The Office. I can't seem to easily find it. [Reply]
Ahem. Started a TikTok for the shop on Monday. Made a post yesterday that's now up to 53K views. Went from 3 followers on Wednesday to almost 400 today.
Yep im pretty much a celebrity now. I think i should start charging people to respond to their posts. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
If he's making over $1 million, let's assume that's top-line revenue. So he's making less as Cameo takes their cut. But $1 million means that he's doing a little more than 5,000 videos a year.
If each video takes him ten minutes to read and prepare (totally guessing there), then that's 800 hours or so. So he's doing it all day on Monday and Tuesday, then taking five days off. If his cut is 80 percent (total guess again), he's making $800,000.
I wonder what he was making on The Office. I can't seem to easily find it.
I did some clicking and the Cameo guy said Baumgartner did "$1M in bookings." More clicking indicates that the split is apparently 75% celeb / 25% Cameo. [Reply]
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
I did some clicking and the Cameo guy said Baumgartner did "$1M in bookings." More clicking indicates that the split is apparently 75% celeb / 25% Cameo.
