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11 Very Wild Videos on Cameo, the Greeting Video Service That Just Raised $50 Million in VC Funding
Brett Favre, Stormy Daniels, and more just want to wish you a very happy birthday
As far as I can tell, Cameo is the ultimate promise of the internet.
For $40, you can get Matt Iseman, host of American Ninja Warrior, to reveal the gender of your child. Blogger Perez Hilton and his bizarre bleached beard will wish your friend a happy birthday for a minute and a half at the cost of $45. And for $350, you can have Ice-T tell your friend to stop buying anime, recorded on the set of Law & Order: SVU.
Cameo was created in 2017 as a marketplace for people to buy short personalized videos from their favorite celebrities, but anyone can apply to join. That means dog influencers, YouTubers, and Bam Margera can all get paid to open an app and record a 30-second video for real American dollars. The service is growing, too. The company just raised $50 million in a Series B funding round in June.
Cameo’s fame economy is fascinating, so I’ve been watching these videos for the past two hours instead of doing “real” work. Here are some of the wildest videos I’ve found.
- Football legend Brett Favre, who has appeared in dozens and dozens of…
