Need Career Advice? Ex-UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer Is Dishing It Out on Twitch

In what’s becoming an annual tradition, last Thursday I found myself sipping a margarita at a stunning home in the Hollywood Hills for an end-of-summer soirée hosted by Ankler Media CEO Janice Min, Web Summit’s Ciara Haley and Bitmoji co-founder Ba Blackstock. The theme of the evening was the future of entertainment, and it wasn’t hard to stay on topic in a room full of top creators including Alan Stokes and Gabi Moura, podcasters Kaelyn Moore and Cherie and Jean Luo and execs including Spotify’s Jordan Newman and Tubi’s Kudzi Chikumbu.

One hot topic of the night was the intensifying battle between YouTube and Netflix for top creators, and there was a palpable sense that, after years of being discounted, digital-native talent have come into their power.

Look no further than the big deal that Alan and his brother Alex — the Stokes Twins — signed to bring their videos to Netflix, where they popped into the top 10 for a week in July with 4.9 million hours viewed. And Moore has a new original true crime podcast, Last Trace, coming to Netflix later this month, part of a slate of greenlights the streamer announced this morning.

That power can also come with consequences, as the team behind YouTube’s Good Good Golf learned after a tone-deaf ad they made in partnership with Callaway sparked controversy. I dig into the fallout for Good Good Golf below.

But first: I’ve got the story of a very surprising Hollywood figure-turned-Twitch creator.

In March 2025, Jeremy Zimmer stepped down as CEO of UTA and found himself without a job for the first time in his nearly five-decade career. Now Zimmer, 68, is back in the spotlight as the host of live Twitch talk show 877unmplyd, the latest project from digital video guru Adam Faze.

I’ve been watching 877unmplyd with fascination for the last few weeks, and when I texted Zimmer about it, he jumped on a call to talk about what it’s like to be the talent after years repping the talent. “I’m having so much fun,” he tells me. “I had no idea how I was going to spend my time post-UTA, and this has been one of the real highlights.”

I’ve got the scoop on what else Zimmer has been up to since leaving UTA, his advice for today’s down-and-out entertainment workforce and what he thought about that wild dustup between new UTA CEO David Kramer and Variety last week.

Here’s what’s below for paid subscribers:

• Zimmer on Kramer’s explosive defense of his team — and whether he thinks his successor went too far
• The career advice Zimmer is giving Hollywood’s unemployed — drawn from his own path and decades of training agents
• What the former UTA chief is raising money to do next
• The heavy-hitting guests Zimmer and co-host Rachel Braun have corralled
• Whether Good Good can survive — and what the channel’s fans have to say about it now