United Kingdom
Matt Morsia, better known online as Mattdoesfitness, is a British fitness creator and former professional long jumper who built one of the UK's most recognisable fitness channels on YouTube.
Total Followers -0.1%
4.1M
Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
2.4M followers · 60% of audience
Engagement
2.0%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Macro
Est. $15K–$36K / IG post
Season 3 of the BBC reboot aired 17 January – 28 March 2026, with Morsia reprising his fan-favourite villain role across the full series run.
Matt featured in the two-part festive Celebrity Apprentice (airing 29–30 Dec 2025), tasked with making and marketing Christmas biscuits for Children in Need alongside a celebrity cast.
Morsia announced a collaboration with The Sports Trust to transform the gym at his hometown's long-closed Folkestone Sports Centre, calling it a far bigger project than his three existing Morsia gyms.
Matt Morsia's own-brand energy drink, launched in late 2022, officially closed with no public explanation given for the decision.
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +0 +0.0% | -771 -0.1% | -103 -0.0% | -874 |
| Last 30 days | +0 +0.0% | -3339 -0.3% | +481 +0.1% | -2858 |
| Last 90 days | +0 +0.0% | -9889 -0.8% | +309 +0.1% | -9580 |
| Last 365 days | +0 +0.0% | -9889 -0.8% | +309 +0.1% | -9580 |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huel Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Aug 2026 | — |
| Gymshark Limited Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jun 2026 | — |
| Myprotein Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Aug 2025 | — |
Matt Morsia, better known online as Mattdoesfitness, is a British fitness creator and former professional long jumper who built one of the UK's most recognisable fitness channels on YouTube. Having competed at national level in athletics, he transitioned into full-time content creation and developed a format mixing training advice, food challenges, gym tours, and lifestyle vlogs. His mainstream profile received a significant boost when he appeared as one of the Gladiators — under the name 'Legend' — in the rebooted BBC primetime series, extending his reach well beyond the core fitness demographic and into broader popular culture.
Mattdoesfitness reaches an audience concentrated in United Kingdom primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. Their sponsorship history skews toward Apparel / Lifestyle, Apparel / Fitness, a clear signal of fit for brands in those categories. Demonstrated partners include Huel and Gymshark Limited. Engagement on YouTube runs around 2.0%, 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 fitness 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 United Kingdom-focused brands in Apparel / Lifestyle and related categories, Mattdoesfitness offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Mattdoesfitness's tier (Macro, 4.1M combined followers, United Kingdom). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Mattdoesfitness's real name is Matt Morsia. He uses the @mattdoesfitness handle across his platforms, but his surname appears openly in his own hashtags and in the name of his personal brand, Morsia.
Yes, Matt Morsia appeared on the BBC Gladiators reboot, an experience he calls out directly in both his Instagram and TikTok bios as 'Legend from Gladiators.' The TV appearance significantly expanded his profile beyond fitness YouTube and brought him in front of a mainstream UK audience.
Morsia is Matt's own brand, which he lists himself as the owner of in his Instagram bio. It gives him a direct commercial stake in the fitness and lifestyle space that goes beyond his individual sponsorship partnerships with names like Huel and Gymshark.
Yes, Matt is an official Huel athlete, a partnership prominent enough that he leads with it in both his Instagram and TikTok bios. Huel is a UK-founded nutrition and meal-replacement brand, making the fit a natural one for a fitness creator whose audience skews heavily UK and US male.
Yes, the Sidemen and their events appear regularly in Matt's content hashtags, including #sidemen and #sidemenoutside. The Sidemen are one of the UK's biggest YouTube collectives, so those crossover appearances put Matt in front of a very large shared audience.
Food and eating content is a signature part of Matt's brand — his own YouTube bio reads 'I also eat quite a lot,' and #foodchallenge is a recurring hashtag across his posts. The combination of big-eating challenges and fitness training is what separates his channel from a straightforward workout tutorial page.
Yes, Gymshark is one of Mattdoesfitness's named YouTube sponsors. Gymshark is the UK's most prominent gym-wear label, and Matt's predominantly male, 18–34-year-old audience in the UK and US maps closely onto the brand's core customer base.
Gym tours are an ongoing content series for Matt, with posts actively asking fans 'Whose gym should I do next?' This format — visiting and breaking down other people's home or commercial gym setups — is one of his most viewer-interactive recurring formats.
Yes, parenting is a meaningful secondary theme on Matt's channels, with hashtags like #parenting, #healthykids, and links to The Net Mums Podcast appearing in his content. It adds a real-life family dimension to his channel that goes beyond workouts and food challenges.
YouTube is Mattdoesfitness's largest and primary platform, where he has built an audience well into the multi-million subscriber range — significantly bigger than his Instagram and TikTok followings combined. Across all platforms he sits firmly in the Macro creator tier, with his fanbase concentrated in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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