Casey, An American nationality and of white American ethnicity initially started his career doing dishwashing and as a cook in a restaurant. In New York, his first job was a bike messenger. He along with his brother began to work with artist Tom Sachs; together they started to make series of films.
Three years later, he along with his brother produced a film "Science Experiments," which was nominated in the 26th film festival of Sao Paulo Biennial in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He began getting international recognition with the video "I Pod Dirty Secret,” created alongside his brother, Van.
The video targeted on features of iPod battery, a design of Apple Inc, which is a famous technology company co-founded by Steve Jobs. The video went viral, and Neistat became an internet sensation. Later in 2008, HBO purchased an eight-episode short hit television series, “The Neistat Brothers,” that cost below $2 million from him.
The show was a hit and he entered the YouTube world in 2010, Casey Neistat made and uploaded a video on the awareness use of the emergency and safety measure that ought to be taken on train and use of brake cord in the NewYork City Subway.
Eventually, he started his vlogging career on Youtube, he later stopped his vlog to focus more on producing short films, which he formed by planning to upload on the youtube site; however, in 2017, he posted a video, named; “The Vlog is back,”! A statement which confirms that his vlog is back on the Youtube.
Apart from his career on YouTube, he is an accomplished speaker. He gave a speech at the South Carolina Arts Education Association Fall Conference. Casey won the ‘John Cassavetes Award’ awarded by the Independent Spirit Awards in 2010.
Additionally, in 2016, he won the ‘Streamy Awards’ in the categories of the ‘Best First-Person Series’ and ‘Best Editing’. In addition, in the same year, he also won the ‘YouTuber of the Year’ award at the Shorty Awards event. He also received ‘New Media Star award’ at the GQ Men of the Year award event.
Casey was a part of controversy after he announced the GoFundMe fundraiser video on YouTube for the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas. He added that any revenue earned from the video would go to the victim of the tragic shooting incident, but Youtube removed the advertisement from the video citing the videos involved or associated with the incident are to be demonetized and removed immediately. Casey expressed his dissatisfaction with Youtube decision on his Twitter account.
Talking about his personal life, Casey was in a relationship with his girlfriend, Robin Harris, with whom he had a child: son, Owen, gave birth at the age of 17. Later the couple got divorced. After his first married life became unsuccessful Candice Pool came into his life as his second spouse, during 2005; but his second married life also ended within a month.
A turning point came into his life as the couple reconciled after eight years and eventually got remarried in Cape Town, South Africa. After the reunion, the couple gave birth to a daughter, Francine. Presently, the couple is living a happy life along with their child, without having any rumors of getting a divorce.
Cassey earns $11.6000 to $18.6000 monthly from his videos from YouTube. Furthermore, as of 2018, he has a net worth of about $12 million. At present, he has 8.7 million subscribers and 2.02 billion views.
Cassey, being an internet darling is active all over the media. He has around 1.6 Million followers on Twitter, 2m followers on Instagram and 870k fans on his Facebook page.
