United States
Ben Azelart is a French-American creator who grew up between France and Southern California, building an early audience around surfing and action-sport content before pivoting to the high-production challenge format that defines his channel today.
Total Followers +0.6%
71.4M
Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
50.8M followers · 71% of audience
Engagement
1.5%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mega
Est. $57K–$133K / IG post
Deadline reported the exclusive signing. Stay Wild now operates with 20+ full-time staff, three sound stages, and a post-production suite in Orange County, managing five channels that collectively drew 7.1 billion views in the prior year. Brand partners include Lego, Red Bull, and Epic Games.
Per the same Deadline report, Azelart joined the Sidemen-produced Netflix reality competition series for its third season.
A MrBeast video featuring Azelart, Mark Rober, and the Stoke Twins was cited by YouTube as one of the first public examples of its new collaborator-tagging feature, which cross-recommends content to each creator's audience.
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +102K +0.2% | -2376 -0.1% | +0 +0.0% | +99K |
| Last 30 days | +401K +0.8% | +951 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +402K |
| Last 90 days | +1.5M +3.0% | -113119 -2.4% | +0 +0.0% | +1.4M |
| Last 365 days | +1.5M +3.0% | -113119 -2.4% | +0 +0.0% | +1.4M |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoArmy Sponsorship | Sponsored content | Jun 2024 | — | |
| Backflip Breakfast Food & Beverage / Owned Brand | Co-founder | Long-term | — | |
| Stay Wild (We Stay Wild) Media / Creative Company | Founder / owned brand | Long-term | — | |
| Skechers Footwear / Apparel | Brand ambassador | 2024–2025 | — | |
| LEGO Toys / Gaming | Sponsored content | 2024–2025 | — | |
| My Talking Hank Islands (Outfit7) Mobile Gaming | Sponsored content | 2024 | — |
Ben Azelart is a French-American creator who grew up between France and Southern California, building an early audience around surfing and action-sport content before pivoting to the high-production challenge format that defines his channel today. He rose alongside a tight-knit Los Angeles creator circle that included Brent Rivera, developing a signature style centered on elaborate, expensive-looking stunts — building floating houses, survival bunkers, and private jets — that blends construction spectacle with comedy and social experiment. That format translates cleanly across YouTube Shorts and long-form, giving him a presence across multiple content lengths with a subscriber base well into the tens of millions.
His audience skews young adult — the 18-to-34 bracket makes up the majority of viewership — with meaningful reach into India and the Philippines alongside his core U.S. base, reflecting the broad appeal of visually driven, dialogue-light content. His co-founder roles in Stay Wild and Backflip Breakfast signal a move toward building brand equity beyond sponsorships; his GoArmy partnership suggests he's accepted deals from institutional advertisers willing to pay premium rates for youth-demographic reach. With rate cards firmly in the upper six figures for YouTube integrations, Azelart is positioned as a reliable large-scale activation partner for brands targeting energetic, aspirational content consumers.
Ben Azelart reaches an audience concentrated in United States primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. Their sponsorship history skews toward Food & Beverage / Owned Brand, Media / Creative Company, Footwear / Apparel, a clear signal of fit for brands in those categories. Demonstrated partners include GoArmy and Backflip Breakfast. Engagement on YouTube runs around 1.5%, pointing to an audience suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel brand campaigns rather than pure-reach buys.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Ben Azelart's tier (Mega, 71.4M combined followers, United States). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Yes, Ben Azelart and Lexi Rivera — sister of fellow creator Brent Rivera — dated publicly and appeared regularly in each other's content, making them one of the more visible couples in the YouTube entertainment space. They eventually split, but their collaborative history remains a frequently searched topic for fans of either creator.
Stay Wild (branded as WeStayWild on Instagram) is a company Ben Azelart co-founded that serves as the business backbone of his creator career — his official business email routes through staywild.co, and the brand appears alongside his personal social accounts. It functions as the umbrella entity through which he manages brand partnerships and broader entrepreneurial ventures.
Backflip Breakfast is a brand Ben Azelart co-founded, listed directly in his Instagram bio alongside Stay Wild. The name likely nods to his action-sports and stunt background, representing one of his entrepreneurial projects that operates separately from his main YouTube content.
"Subscribe for Good Luck" is the signature tagline Ben Azelart uses in his YouTube channel description, playing on the idea that hitting subscribe brings the viewer good fortune. It's a playful, superstition-based hook that matches the high-energy, entertainment-first tone of his challenge and stunt content.
Ben Azelart's channel features a recurring series of high-production "I Built a..." videos — including a floating house, a secret survival bunker, and an extreme private jet — which rank among his most ambitious content formats. These are elaborately staged challenge and social-experiment videos with professional production behind them, not solo DIY construction projects.
"I Secretly Lived at YouTuber Houses" is one of Ben Azelart's standout video concepts, where he covertly stays at the homes of other prominent creators without their immediate knowledge and documents the whole experience. It's a signature social-experiment stunt that blends hidden-camera storytelling with his broader challenge and entertainment content style.
Ben Azelart has partnered with Skechers to promote the brand's Hands Free Slip-ins line, with the #skecherspartner tag appearing in his sponsored posts. It sits alongside his other brand partnerships — including a GoArmy collaboration — as part of his active sponsored content activity.
In 2024, Ben Azelart partnered with GoArmy — the U.S. Army's official recruitment and branding initiative — for sponsored content on Instagram. The deal reflects GoArmy's ongoing strategy of working with large-audience entertainment creators to reach younger demographics.
Ben Azelart has surpassed 50 million subscribers on YouTube, placing him firmly in the Mega creator tier and among the largest individual channels in the challenge and entertainment space. His audience is global, with particularly strong viewership in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines.
Ben Azelart and Brent Rivera have been closely associated through years of collaboration and overlapping social circles in the Southern California creator community, a bond deepened by Ben's relationship with Brent's sister Lexi Rivera. Their challenge and skit-heavy content formats align closely, and cross-collaboration has been a consistent part of both creators' growth over the years.
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