Casey Neistat

Casey Neistat: Biography in Details

Who is Casey Neistat?

Casey Neistat is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger, and co-founder of the multimedia company Beme. He is one of the most popular YouTube personalities.

Additionally, at present, he has more than 8 million subscribers on YouTube.

How many siblings does Casey Neistat have?

Casey Neistat was born in Gales Ferry, Connecticut on March 25, 1981, to parents Amy Neistat and Barry Neistat.

His siblings are Van Neistat, Dean Neistat, and Jordan Neistat. He discovered his passion in filmmaking in his childhood years.

Casey Neistat is of American nationality. Furthermore, there is no detailed information regarding his ethnic background at present.

Talking about his education, Casey dropped out of high school during his sophomore year at age 15 and did not return to school or graduate.

Casey Neistat: Career, Salary, and Net Worth

Initially, Casey left his family and had a son named Owen, at age 17, with his then-girlfriend Robin Harris.

He worked as a dishwasher at an unknown restaurant. In addition, he was a short-order cook in Mystic, Connecticut.

After moving to New York, his first job in New York City was as a bike messenger. In 2001, Casey and his brother began working with artist Tom Sachs, ultimately making a series of films.

In 2004, Casey Neistat and his brother produced a film series titled ‘Science Experiments’.

The series was included in the 26th São Paulo Biennial in São Paulo, Brazil. Eventually, in July 2008, HBO purchased an eight-episode television series, ‘The Neistat Brothers’, for just under $2 million.

After the show’s success, he decided to join the YouTube world.

On February 17, 2010, he uploaded a video about when, and when not, to use the emergency brake cord on train cars in the New York City Subway.

Eventually, he started to post daily vlogs on YouTube on March 24, 2015.

On November 19, 2016, Casey announced that he was canceling his vlog permanently to focus more on short-films, which he plans uploading to YouTube in place of his daily vlogs on a regular basis.

However, just over 4 months, on March 27, 2017, he posted a video, named; ‘THE VLOG IS BACK!’.

Apart from his YouTube career, Casey is also a successful public speaker. On October 15, 2010, he spoke at the South Carolina Arts Education Association Fall Conference.

Casey Neistat won the ‘John Cassavetes Award’ presented by the Independent Spirit Awards in 2010.

Additionally, in 2016, he won the ‘Streamy Awards in the categories ‘Best First-Person Series’ and ‘Best Editing’.

In addition, the same year he also won ‘YouTuber of the Year’ award at the Shorty Awards event.

Casey Neistat was also honored with the ‘New Media Star award’ at the GQ Men of the Year award event.

Casey makes $11.6K – $186K monthly. Furthermore, he has an estimated net worth of around $16 million as of 2023.

Casey Neistat: Rumors and Controversy

Casey Neistat became part of a controversy after he took to YouTube to announce a GoFundMe fundraiser for the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas.

Additionally, he added that any ad revenue earned from the video’s 1.3 million and counting views would go directly to the victims as well.

YouTube, citing a policy that all videos related to the tragedy are demonetized, pulled ads from the video.

Later, he took to Twitter to vent his frustration over the demonetization. Currently, there are no rumors concerning Casey and his career.

How tall is Casey Neistat?

Talking about his body measurement, Casey has a height of 1.75 m.

Additionally, Casey Neistat weighs around 72 kg (170 lbs). Furthermore, his hair color and eye color is brown.

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

Casey Neistat is active on social media. He has a huge number of followers on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter as well as Instagram.

He has more than 1.6M followers on Twitter. In addition, he has more than 2M followers on Instagram.

Similarly, his Facebook page has more than 870k followers.

References: (socialblade.com, celebritynetworth.com, gizmodo.com, indiewire.com)

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