The Next New Thing AI is a YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Warner, best known as the founder of Mixergy, where he spent years conducting in-depth interviews with startup founders and dissecting how businesses actually grow.
Total Followers +20.2%
59K
Across YouTube
Primary Platform
YouTube
59K followers · 100% of audience
Engagement
1.7%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Micro
| Platform | Followers | 30d Growth | Engagement | Posts / wk | Last upload |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | 59,400 | +12K | 1.7% | 9.3 | 1 day ago |
| Window | YouTube | Combined | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +2K +2.9% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +2K |
| Last 30 days | +12K +20.2% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +12K |
| Last 90 days | +58K +98.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +58K |
| Last 365 days | +58K +98.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +58K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
The Next New Thing AI is a YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Warner, best known as the founder of Mixergy, where he spent years conducting in-depth interviews with startup founders and dissecting how businesses actually grow. This channel represents a sharper pivot toward hands-on AI content: specifically, how founders and builders can leverage emerging AI tools to launch profitable startups without necessarily writing production-level code. The content mixes tool reviews, comparative walkthroughs, and repository breakdowns — recent episodes test competing AI tools head-to-head and unpack GitHub repos with real-world applicability in mind. The editorial tone is practical and skeptical rather than evangelizing, which aligns with Warner's long-established style of asking pointed, ROI-focused questions.
The channel's audience skews younger than most startup-education content, with the 18-to-34 cohort representing the dominant share of viewership, and a notably female-majority audience — an uncommon demographic profile in the AI-builder space that hints at broader accessibility in the channel's framing. Viewership is genuinely global, with substantial audiences in Brazil, India, and Mexico alongside the United States, suggesting the no-code and AI-productivity messaging travels well across markets where technical barriers to entrepreneurship are higher. The presenting sponsorship from Zapier is a natural fit: Zapier's automation-first positioning maps directly onto the channel's no-code-builder ethos. With strong recent subscriber growth and a topic area still expanding rapidly, the channel is well-positioned as a practitioner-focused resource for the next generation of AI entrepreneurs.
TheNextNewThingAI reaches its audience primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations. As a tech creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Demonstrated partners include Zapier. Engagement on YouTube runs around 1.7%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. Their YouTube-first format lends itself to integrations that sit inside the creator's usual content rather than running as standalone ads. Because the audience follows tech 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 brands in tech and related categories, TheNextNewThingAI offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at @TheNextNewThingAI's tier (Micro, 59K combined followers, —). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Andrew Warner is the founder of Mixergy, a long-running podcast that interviewed hundreds of startup founders over more than a decade. On TheNextNewThingAI he applies that same founder-focused lens to AI tools, covering how to build and monetize AI products rather than just use them passively.
Zapier is listed as the presenting sponsor of the channel, meaning the show is co-presented by Zapier rather than simply running a one-off ad read. That relationship makes sense given Zapier's no-code automation focus, which closely mirrors what the channel teaches its founder audience.
Jev is an AI tool that the channel has reviewed across multiple episodes, including a practical breakdown of nine things builders can actually do with it and a head-to-head comparison where the same request was sent to three different tools. The channel's coverage suggests Jev is positioned as a build-with tool rather than a passive AI assistant, and it recurs because the channel tracks which AI products are genuinely useful for founders.
Yes — one of the channel's recurring formats involves sending the identical prompt or task to multiple AI tools and showing the results, as in the episode titled "We tested the same request on all 3." This comparative testing style is a signature approach that helps founders choose between competing platforms based on real outputs rather than marketing claims.
The Top Repos series breaks down standout GitHub repositories relevant to AI builders, covering tools for code review, agent frameworks, and computer vision projects like World Camera. The segments are designed to surface which open-source projects are gaining traction so founders can decide which ones to integrate into products they're building.
The channel is squarely aimed at founders who want to ship AI products without necessarily writing traditional code, which is reflected in its heavy use of hashtags like #nocode and #aibuilders. That said, the Top Repos segments do dive into GitHub projects, so the audience skews toward technically curious founders rather than pure beginners.
A majority of the channel's audience is concentrated outside the United States, with Brazil, India, and Mexico all representing major segments. The practical, no-code angle on AI startup building resonates strongly in fast-growing tech ecosystems where access to developer resources can be limited and the appetite for lean, tool-driven entrepreneurship is high.
The channel zeroes in on profitable AI startups rather than research or enterprise AI, with content covering ROI, founder workflows, and tool selection for early-stage builders. Hashtags like #aibusiness, #founders, and #futureofwork signal that the target viewer is someone actively trying to build a revenue-generating product, not just learning AI theory.
Yes — the channel uses YouTube Shorts as part of its content mix alongside longer analysis and review videos, based on #youtubeshorts appearing among its top hashtags. The Shorts likely serve as quick tool comparisons or takeaways aimed at pulling in new viewers who then watch fuller episodes.
The channel sits in the Micro tier but recorded unusually strong growth over a recent 30-day window in 2026, well above what most channels in the AI and tech education category see. Its engagement also runs above the category median, which suggests the subscriber base is actively watching and responding rather than passively accumulated.
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