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Disney In Talks To Buy One Of The Largest YouTube Content Producers For $500 Million

Kirsten Acuna   

Disney In Talks To Buy One Of The Largest YouTube Content Producers For $500 Million

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Maker works with one of YouTube's biggest stars Felix Arvid Ulf Kjelberg, better known as PewDiePie.

Disney is in talks to buy one of the largest networks that produces video for YouTube for $500 million, according to Re/code.

Maker Studios creates content aimed mostly at millennials.

Re/code reports Maker receives 5.5 billion views per month on its channels.

Maker is home to one of YouTube's biggest stars, "PewDiePie," a 24-year-old Swedish videogame commenter, Felix Arvid Ulf Kjelberg.

All together, Kjelberg has received 3.7 billion views on YouTube and has 23.9 million subscribers.

The Financial Times valued Maker at $300 million in 2013.

The Mouse House wouldn't be the first studio to invest in YouTube talent.

DreamWorks Animation purchased AwesomenessTV for $33 million last year, a deal that could eventually pay up to $117 million.

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