Dude Perfect

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Dude Perfect
Industry Entertainment
Genre
  • Sports
  • entertainment
  • comedy
  • trick shots
FoundedMarch 16, 2009;15 years ago (2009-03-16)
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, U.S.
Founders
  • Tyler Toney
  • Coby Cotton
  • Cory Cotton
  • Garrett Hilbert
  • Cody Jones
  • Sean Townsend [1] [2]
Headquarters Frisco, Texas
Key people
Andrew Yaffe - CEO
Owners
  • Tyler Toney
  • Coby Cotton
  • Cory Cotton
  • Garrett Hilbert
  • Cody Jones
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2009–present
Subscribers60.7 million [3] [4]
Total views18.1 billion [3] [4]
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2011
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2013
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg10,000,000 subscribers2016
Last updated: January 11, 2025
Website dudeperfect.com

Dude Perfect (DP) is an American sports and comedy group and YouTube channel headquartered in Frisco, Texas. [5] The group consists of Tyler "The Beard" Toney, "The Twins" Cory and Coby Cotton, Garrett "The Purple Hoser" Hilbert, and Cody "The Tall Guy" Jones, all of whom are former college roommates at Texas A&M University. Four members of the group, Jones being an exception, were brothers of the Gamma chapter of the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity at A&M.

Contents

Dude Perfect's content predominantly consists of videos depicting various trick shots, stereotypes, and stunts. The group also regularly uploads videos of "battles", in which the individual members of Dude Perfect compete against one another in a good-natured game or contest, often incorporating different sports and a unique set of rules. Dude Perfect also created the show Overtime, a series where they host several segments, such as "Wheel Unfortunate", in which a contestant spins a wheel and gets a random penalty, "Cool Not Cool", a show-and-tell-like segment, and "Absurd Recurds", in which the Dudes attempt to break the most absurd world records they can find.

History

Early years

On April 9, 2009, a video of the group performing trick shots at Tyler Toney's house and a local public park was released on YouTube. [6] Within a week, the video received 200,000 views and was mentioned on Good Morning America . [7] [8]

The group's second video, filmed at a Christian summer camp, was released shortly thereafter. The video amassed over 18 million views and went viral. For every 100,000 views the video received, Dude Perfect pledged to sponsor a child from Compassion International. [6]

In 2010, Dude Perfect introduced the Panda mascot. The Panda quickly grew into a popular symbol at Texas A&M basketball games when taunting players of the opposing team. [9]

Collaborations

In 2016, Dude Perfect traveled to the United Kingdom to film a video with players of Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea. [10] The group also got a chance to visit the US Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz for a 3-day trip aboard and released their trip's video as an episode as part of their Bucket List. Dude Perfect also visited South Africa in their second bucket list video. In 2021, Dallas Mavericks center Boban Marjanovic made a guest appearance. [11]

Business ventures

Cory Cotton authored a book titled Go Big, in which he shared the secrets the group has learned along the way building a business in a world largely influenced by social media. [12]

In June 2015, the group was selected by the Harlem Globetrotters in their annual player draft. [13]

In September 2015, the group was approved for a television series entitled The Dude Perfect Show on CMT, which began airing during the first half of 2016. [14] The show's second season aired on Viacom sibling network Nickelodeon. [15]

In 2019, Dude Perfect went on their first live tour. [16] In 2020, the group also announced their second live tour. [17]

Partnering with YouTube Originals in 2020, Dude Perfect released a documentary: Backstage Pass. The documentary provided a behind-the-scenes look at their live tour: 'Pound It, Noggin'. [18] [19]

During H2 2024 Dude Perfect sold an undisclosed share of the company to investment firm Highmount Capital, this was to raise $100 million in capital for future projects and modernize the company, introducing a more traditional business structure. This was done to allow the founders to continue to make videos they enjoy while expanding the business with more channels, presenters and content. The firm hired Andrew Yaffe a former NBA social media executive, who will direct the group on building a team to specializes in developing areas important to the group and help define of the vision on how the group will develop and evolve in the future. [20] [21]

World records

In 2009, the group set the Guinness World Record for the longest basketball shot after shooting from the third deck of Kyle Field. In October 2010, Dude Perfect extended their record with a "cross-tower" shot from a height of 66 meters (216 feet); the basket was located 45 meters (150 feet) away from the tower's base. [22] In March 2011, Dude Perfect unofficially broke their record again with a shot from the top of Reliant Stadium, which remained in the air for 5.3 seconds. [9] [23] In January 2014, the group successfully attempted a shot from the 561-foot-tall Reunion Tower, with Cody Jones and Garrett Hilbert holding the basket at the base of the tower. [24] In their 2016 video, "World Record Edition", Dude Perfect broke multiple world records. The group broke the world records for longest basketball shot made with the head, highest basketball shot, longest blindfolded basketball shot, and longest sitting basketball shot. [25] Subsequently, they released a sequel based on football the following year, in which they broke even more world records. They later made two more world record videos: archery in 2022 and golf in 2023.

In 2018, Dude Perfect broke the record for longest barefoot Lego walk and longest pea blow during their filming of Overtime. [26] In episode six of Overtime, Dude Perfect broke the record for the farthest distance traveled rolling across exercise balls. [27] In 2019, Dude Perfect broke the world record for most ping pong balls stuck on a person's head using shaving cream, [28] and the most donuts stacked on each other while blindfolded. [29] In 2020, they broke another record for the most beach ball header passes in 30 seconds. [30]

In 2019, on Nickelodeon's The Dude Perfect Show , the group set 6 world records: fastest time to wrap a person with wrapping paper (team of two), most party poppers popped in 30 seconds (team of two), most thumbtacks inserted into a corkboard in a minute, most eggs crushed with the toes in 30 seconds, most drink cans opened with one hand in a minute, farthest distance traveled on Swiss balls. [31]

In 2023, in Las Vegas, the group once again broke the record of the world's highest basketball shot from a height of 856 feet from the Strat Tower. Dude Perfect spent three days in Las Vegas trying to pull off the feat and they were able to do it in the last hour of filming.

Dude Perfect currently holds more than 20 Guinness World Records. [32]

Awards

AwardYearCategoryResult
Streamy Award 2014Best Sports SeriesNominated
2015Winner
2016Nominated
2020Nominated
2017Best Branded VideoNominated
Shorty Awards 2016Best YouTube EnsembleNominated
2018Nominated
2018Creator of the DecadeNominated
Kids Choice Awards 2020Favorite Male Social StarNominated
Teen Choice Awards 2015Choice Web Star: ComedyNominated
Sports Emmy Awards 2024Outstanding Interactive ExperienceWinner

50 Million 'Ruby' Creator Award

Dude Perfect, along with over 20 other creators, never received a formal award from Youtube for passing 50 million subscribers, an award was conceive and created by fellow YouTuber Daniel Kraft. Acknowledge the work and dedication the group have done for the Youtuber community over the years. [33]

Other channels

In addition to their main channel, Dude Perfect have launched additional channels such as Dude Perfect Plus, Dude Perfect Gaming, and Dude Perfect en Español. The latter features voice actors that dub over each of the Dudes and graphics that can be read in Spanish. Collectively, these channels have amassed 1.8 million subscribers and garnered 116.7 million views in total, as of August 2023. [34]

Legitimacy

Amid their success, questions arose over the legitimacy of the group's trick shots. Hosts on Good Morning America discussed the tricks and debated whether they were real, [35] though experts contacted by the show stated they were unable to find evidence of the tricks being fake.

Regarding the doubts, group member Cody Jones said: "We love it when people claim it's fake, because it makes the shots seem even more ridiculously impossible; and we get more publicity and hits on YouTube, so we love the mystery of knowing whether it's real or fake." [6]

Recent years

On December 18, 2022, Dude Perfect announced the $100 million dollar Dude Perfect World Theme Park. Allowing viewers of the show to come and take part in activities, for example trickshots, world record attempts and a rage room. The idea for the theme park is to allow fans to feel closer to the group and experience what it's like to be member of Dude Perfect. [36]

On January 15, 2024, The Dude Perfect Video App was released on Google Play Store and Apple App Store. It is an app that lets you watch unlimited Dude Perfect videos for free. Every ad is guarenteed to be family-friendly. The app also provides benefits, such as watching unreleased videos early, and watching behind-the-scenes content that has never been seen before. In an interview with Colin and Samir, Coby confirmed that the app had reached over 2 million downloads on all platforms as of Q3 2024. [21]

On January 11, 2025, Dude Perfect revealed their new $3M HQ, Dude Perfect Headquarters 3 (DPHQ3). It includes a Putting Course, a Pickleball Court, a regulation-size NFL goalpost, a full-sized basketball court with extra moving hoops on the wall for a trickshot challenge, a Golf Simulator and much much more. They also are creating a in-person merch store next to their main HQ that has limited edition hats, T-Shirts, and other merch.

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