This is an accepted version of this page Casey Owen Neistat (/ˈnaɪstæt/;[2]: 0:27  born March 25, 1981)[3] is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger and co-founder of the multimedia company Beme, which was later acquired by CNN.

[12] He eventually left his family and had a son named Owen, at age 17, with his then-girlfriend Robin Harris, in 1998.

Before moving to New York City, Neistat worked as a dishwasher at a seafood restaurant[15] and was a short-order cook in Mystic, Connecticut.

[27] On February 17, 2010, Neistat uploaded a video about when to use the emergency brake cord on train cars in the New York City Subway.

According to the video, one should only use the emergency brake system when the motion of the train poses an imminent threat to life or limb.

In response, New York Magazine called Neistat a "Bike-Lane Vigilante"[35] and the film was covered by most mainstream media outlets.

Additionally, Time named Bike Lanes number eight on their Top 10 Creative Videos of 2011 list.

[41][42][43] Particularly popular videos have included snowboarding on New York City streets during the January 2016 United States blizzard.

[50][51] In March 2022, his film titled Under the Influence, a documentary following David Dobrik and examining various controversies around him, premiered at SXSW.

The video begins with scrolling text that reads: "Nike asked me to make a movie about what it means to #makeitcount.

[58] Fast editing of their travels with interludes of inspirational quotes make up the film, ultimately ending with Neistat returning to New York City where the story began.

On April 8, 2012, Nike launched the video on their official YouTube page titled Make It Count.

[59] A number of mainstream outlets referred to Neistat's production of the film as "going rogue" including CNNGo,[61] Fast Company[62] and Conde Nast Traveler.

[63] In a July 8, 2015 vlog,[64] Neistat announced that he had been working with Matt Hackett on building a video-sharing app called Beme.

[66] Shortly after the launch, BuzzFeed described Beme's minimalist design as "deceptively simple and decidedly weird.

[79] On April 12 of that year, Patreon CEO Jack Conte announced a potential collaboration with Neistat on the project.

On the show, Neistat and his wife Candice Pool discussed the up and downs of their marriage, friendship, parenting and lives in the YouTube spotlight.

On December 29, 2013, Neistat and Pool were married in a Jewish wedding service in Cape Town, South Africa.

In 2004, he directed a video in which his grandmother made the "world's greatest french toast", and delivered it to his son, Owen.

Twenty-two days after the video was posted, Louise died of natural causes at the age of 92; Neistat wrote her obituary and delivered the eulogy.

[93] On May 10, 2019, Neistat announced that he would be leaving New York City and moving to Los Angeles to be with his family, in a video titled i'M Leaving NYC Forever...[94] On September 14, 2022, Neistat uploaded a video stating he was moving back to New York City.

[95] Neistat is a part of the ownership group of Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League.

[100][101][102] On September 27, 2019, Neistat acknowledged that he should have taken a more "effective" route to making the video as he was "too upset, angry and emotional" when it was made.