Mark Rober , the former NASA engineer turned YouTube creator, is heading to Netflix .
Rober, who has over 68M subscribers, is working on a new competition series for the streamer and will also bring some of his existing content, which currently lives on YouTube, to the service. The move has been in the works a while.
It marks the latest creator who made their name on the free streaming site to partner with Netflix after the likes of Ms. Rachel, prank collective The Sidemen and the creators of viral dating show Pop The Balloon.
In March, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said YouTube was useful for creators to “cut their teeth on” and called the Google-owned platform a “little bit of a farm league”. Jeff Gaspin, who runs unscripted, followed this up last month by telling Deadline , “Thes