Brandon Stewart is the mogul behind an unparalleled social media metaverse and immersive streaming platform, Brandon TV, where his audience comprises 120M+ registered users - all of whom have voice on the gamified story-making process. This August 2024, he opened Brandon Studios, a brick-and-mortar, 30,000-square-foot full-fledged production studio complete with two sound stages, which currently employs 25 people in Burbank, California.

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Brandon was born May 24, 1995 in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the son of Mike Stewart and Melanie Tomlinson Stewart. Brandon was raised with his two brothers, Ryan and Tyler Stewart, in Carrollton, Kentucky and attended Carroll County Public Schools.

 

He took piano and voice lessons at 8 years old, and soon after, found himself on stage by the age of 14, appearing as Danny Zuko in a sold out run of "Grease," the musical. After many musicals later, including "Hello Dolly" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," Brandon went on to open for George Jones on his Farewell Tour. By his senior year of high school, he made it on the 12th Season of American Idol following his audition in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Brandon graduated Carroll County High School in May 2013 and attended college at Bellarmine University before moving to Los Angeles to attend film school.

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At the age of 19, he recognized how outdated the Film and Television industry was, with content creators finding their own audiences on social media, and Hollywood turning their back on them. Many creators were being mocked, as industry giants scoffed at the idea of having to work with them. Since then, Brandon’s new media strategy helped motivate established industry giants' perceptions of how lucrative and beneficial it was to partner with individual influencers. Brandon believed a captive audience was far more valuable than what was previously deemed as “box office popularity.” Although it was an uphill battle introducing his concepts to longtime executives, he was not deterred. The data was there. Content creators curated interest from people by the millions, and with a fraction of the budget. At that moment, Brandon knew social media would be the heartbeat behind his media empire, because he himself was a content creator.

 

Fast forward to now, 10 years later, he has built the fastest growing unscripted streaming platform in the world, Brandon TV ("BTV") and opened Brandon Studios where his imagination for new ideas run wild. Brandon made it his mission to prove how powerful a captive audience can be, building his own. Drawing on his experience while at Awesomeness TV, Brandon developed a model that grew hundreds of careers. Under his management, he provides talent residuals and individual ownership of intellectual property, a concept which not too many years ago was unprecedented; and arguably still is today. 

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In the midst of his career evolution, Brandon remains grounded in his roots. After his appearance on "American Idol," he started a non-profit singing competition in his hometown of Carrollton, Kentucky titled “Carrollton Idol.” It became one of the most successful live singing competitions in the state, selling a record-breaking number of tickets at his local county fair on the first year it debuted. This project, which ran for five years, was a formative experience for Brandon, and the first time he produced his own show at the early age of 17. Igniting his passion to help others follow their dreams, whilst also giving back to his community.

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All of Brandon's media ventures include: a distribution platform, a production studio, a talent/brand focused agency, a rental facility, a post-production house, and a music studio, accruing an astounding 16 billion views worldwide, launching hundreds of careers, and entertaining 120+ million registered users across 63 new media channels.

 

He has been forging 'fingertip entertainment' that breaks the algorithm, creating viral videos on apps like TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and even former social focused sites like Vine, Musically, and Twitter. Brandon is bridging the gap between Gen Z and Gen Alpha's shorter attention spans, and traditional viewing trends for Boomers and Millennials. But the content isn’t traditionally made, as most of it is derived by the fans' choices at home – sometimes reactive to questionnaires and polls, and often prompted by social media engagement and commentary. A community that gamifies the streaming experience, with the reality TV genre becoming the conduit that starts it all.

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The young mogul feels his empire is only beginning, in n a world where very few studios know where the evolving industry is going, and most of them are firing employees by the hundreds, Brandon continues to empower content creators to fight for their seat at the table, as he champions a growing captive audience of his own that continues to grow every day. Brandon believes the future of entertainment is immersive experiences, content he is producing that leverages social media as his heartbeat behind it all.

 

The first series trailer for "Mad House" garnered 192M views on TikTok in 5 days.