Brazil
Marcos Lima is a Brazilian guitar educator who has built his YouTube channel, Marcoslimaviolao, into a structured online school for Portuguese-speaking players.
Total Followers +1.5%
232K
Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
201K followers · 87% of audience
Engagement
12.1%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
Est. $563–$1.6K / IG post
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +1K +0.5% | +50 +0.2% | +0 +0.0% | +1K |
| Last 30 days | +2K +1.0% | +1K +6.6% | +0 +0.0% | +4K |
| Last 90 days | +6K +3.1% | +15K +64.5% | +0 +0.0% | +21K |
| Last 365 days | +6K +3.1% | +15K +64.5% | +0 +0.0% | +21K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
Marcos Lima is a Brazilian guitar educator who has built his YouTube channel, Marcoslimaviolao, into a structured online school for Portuguese-speaking players. With over twenty-five years of in-person and digital teaching experience, he anchors his content around practical, level-appropriate lessons — covering beginner fundamentals through to intermediate and advanced technique — rooted in Brazilian popular music styles such as MPB and samba rock. His proprietary method, Decole no Violão, has brought thousands of students through a structured progression, and that pedagogical backbone gives his channel a more course-like feel than the typical guitar hobbyist account. Content ranges from music theory explainers to style-specific breakdowns, including lessons built around artists like Jorge Ben Jor.
Marcoslimaviolao reaches an audience concentrated in Brazil primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. As an education creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. With no brand deals logged yet, they read as an available, category-aligned partner for advertisers building early presence in the space. Engagement on YouTube runs around 12.2%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and Instagram Reels and Stories lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows education content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For Brazil-focused brands in education and related categories, Marcoslimaviolao offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Marcoslimaviolao's tier (Mid, 232K combined followers, Brazil). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Método Decole no Violão is Prof Marcos Lima's own structured guitar course, designed to take students from absolute beginner to playing any song they want. His Instagram bio credits the method with over 2,000 enrolled students, making it his flagship paid product beyond the free lessons he publishes on YouTube and social media.
Yes — one of his lessons is built around three classics by Jorge Ben Jor specifically to teach Samba Rock rhythm and technique on guitar. Samba Rock is a Brazilian fusion style that blends samba groove with rock guitar feel, and Brazilian popular artists like Jorge Ben Jor are a recurring touchstone in his content.
Prof Marcos Lima has been teaching guitar for over 25 years, as he states directly in his YouTube channel description. That long teaching career is central to how he frames his content — structured, level-based instruction built from decades of working with real students, now delivered free online.
Yes — Prof Marcos Lima describes his channel's explicit mission as teaching guitar "from zero until you can play any song you want." His lessons are organized across beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, so complete beginners with no prior experience are a primary audience he designs content for.
In Brazilian Portuguese, violão refers to acoustic or classical guitar, while guitarra refers to electric guitar. Marcoslimaviolao's channel name and core teaching focus are centered on violão — the acoustic instrument most used in MPB, samba, and bossa nova — though his content touches on broader guitar topics as well.
The Moises app appears regularly in his content hashtags, suggesting he incorporates it as a practice and learning tool in his workflow. Moises is an AI-powered app widely used among Brazilian musicians to isolate instrument tracks and slow down songs without changing pitch, which is particularly useful for learning guitar parts by ear.
Yes, MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) is a strong theme running through his channel, reflected in his use of the #mpb hashtag and lessons built around Brazilian artists. His channel explicitly focuses on violão popular — the style of acoustic guitar most associated with Brazilian popular music, samba, and bossa nova.
According to his own Instagram bio, Prof Marcos Lima has surpassed 2,000 enrolled students through his Método Decole no Violão course. That figure refers specifically to paid or enrolled students, separate from the much larger free audience he reaches through his YouTube channel and short-form content.
Prof Marcos Lima is based in Brazil and teaches entirely in Brazilian Portuguese. The overwhelming majority of his audience is also Brazilian, making his channel one that is specifically tailored to Brazilian guitar learners and the musical styles — samba, MPB, bossa nova, Samba Rock — native to that culture.
Marcoslimaviolao has built an audience of over 200,000 subscribers on YouTube, placing him solidly in the mid-tier for Brazilian music education creators. His engagement rate runs well above the category average, which reflects a loyal community of active learners rather than passive viewers.
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