How Geoguessr got SO popular...

Name: How Geoguessr got SO popular...
Uploaded: 2025-12-01T02:14:20+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this monologue, Sam Parr explains the GeoGuessr game—a random Google Street View location guessing challenge—and outlines its rapid financial growth…

1 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Sam Parr explains the GeoGuessr game—a random Google Street View location guessing challenge—and outlines its rapid financial growth from a modest $467,000 revenue in 2019 to $21 million in 2023, with EBITDA reaching $11 million and $9 million paid out as dividends. He highlights the surge in user registrations to 50 million and credits the explosion of YouTube and TikTok creators who built fame around the game, illustrating how a seemingly trivial app turned into a serious, creator‑driven business during the COVID‑19 pandemic.

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He posted on Reddit and you click on the link and this, it's this thing called GeoGuessr. You basically see a random street view of Google Maps. I've seen this. And you have to guess where you are. It could be easy, so it could be like Times Square, but then it gets more complicated where you'll get dropped in someplace in Ghana and you have to look at the license plate and you're like, the license plates are yellow. I know that's a thing in Ghana. And so 2019, the company did $467,000 in revenue and $61,000 in profit. The pandemic hits, this thing explodes. 2020, $2 million. '21, $10 million. '22, $18 million. '23, they did $21 million in revenue and $11 million in EBITDA, and the owner took out $9 million in dividends. And it has 50 million registered users. And there are all these YouTubers and TikTokers who are famous now because of it. It's just amazing that something so small and so silly has become such a serious business.