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MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal

One of YouTube's biggest creators has a new deal to promote Gemini and Google Health.

The Verge Stevie Bonifield

Context & Ripple Effects

MrBeast’s 500 million-subscriber milestone gives Google a distribution partner with unusually broad reach on YouTube. Google has also been building creator-to-brand connections since its FameBit acquisition, making this a direct use of creator media to market its own consumer products.

The deal follows Google’s May 2026 shift from Fitbit Premium to Google Health Premium with Gemini-powered coaching and a higher annual price. It places health and AI products in the same creator-led promotion cycle rather than treating them as separate launches.

First-order effects

  • Google gains multiyear placements for Gemini, Google Health, and Fitbit Air in MrBeast videos, while MrBeast adds Google’s consumer AI and health products to his commercial content.
  • MrBeast’s audience will encounter Google Health in entertainment programming, a format that drew public skepticism about the credibility of health advice in creator videos.

Second-order effects

  • The promotion gives Google Health’s newly rebranded, higher-priced subscription offering a broad awareness channel alongside Gemini, tying product discovery to MrBeast’s video reach rather than app-store or device marketing alone.

Third-order effects

  • If Google extends this model to other creators, large entertainment channels become a more central distribution layer for consumer AI and health services, increasing the importance of disclosure and audience trust around sponsored product use.

The trend: Consumer AI and digital-health companies are moving creator partnerships from one-off endorsements toward multiyear product-distribution arrangements.

Discussion

  • Jason Kirk Jason Kirk on linkedin
    Since I began interviewing at MrBeast, and everyday since, there were a couple of companies that I felt made the absolute most sense for us …
  • @alexisohanian Alexis Ohanian on x
    👀 @MrBeast - wow! (776 is a proud early investor!) https://blog.google/...
  • @theoperatormode @theoperatormode on x
    @verge Nothing says trustworthy health advice like a shocked thumbnail and 47 million views.