Mark Goldbridge's YouTube channel win rights to show top-flight matches this season in landmark shared deal with Gary Neville's The Overlap
Goldbridge, whose real name is Brent Di Cesare, has risen to fame on social media through his coverage of United in recent years.
The content creator has built a large following by delivering a series of viral moments during his United watch-along sessions for each match on 'The United Stand'.
Another YouTube channel 'That's Football' features watch-alongs involving other clubs, as well as reacting to major stories from across the sport.
Goldbridge's offering is set to increase further having been awarded rights to broadcast a selection of Bundesliga matches this season.
His channel and The Overlap, which features Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher, have both been included as Bundesliga broadcast partners.
The two channels will share live matches throughout the season, which will be shown in watch-along formats.
'That's Football will stream 20 live Bundesliga matches on Friday nights as well as creating 34 weekly shows in 25/26 – the first creator channel with official league rights,' a statement from 'That's Football' read.
'A landmark deal putting That's Football alongside Sky, BBC and Amazon in the Bundesliga UK strategy.'
Their involvement is in addition to the BBC having free to air rights to Friday night matches for the next two seasons, which will also be shown on the Bundesliga's own YouTube channel.
Sky Sports will reportedly continue to show the Bundesliga's Saturday evening fixture and matches between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, while Amazon will have rights to all their Sunday matches.
Goldbridge's involvement, however, marks the first time a content creator has been awarded broadcast rights to a top European league.
His staggering earnings were revealed last year, with accounts on Companies House revealing that his five companies had £4,039,957 in the bank between them as of the end of 2023.
This represented a £1.2million increase on the same figure a year earlier.
The companies are not big enough to require full, audited accounts to be published, but he enjoyed a successful year while United struggled on the pitch.
His 'The United Stand' channel boasts 2.15million subscribers on YouTube and claims to be the biggest Man United fan media outlet in the world, while 'That's Football' has 1.38m subscribers.
Goldbridge had previously been accused by former Man United defender Paul Parker of 'causing problems' at the club, who also claimed the content creator is a Nottingham Forest fan.
'I don't like what Mark Goldbridge is doing,' Parker claimed in 2023. 'It's a problem. Everyone has to make a living but you have to be very, very thick skinned to make money off the back of something you don't like.
'He has no relationship to Man United, he is a Nottingham Forest fan. It's an incredible skill to do that, actually… to make money on the back of something you don't like.
'He is attacking the club, the manager and the owners of a football club that you don't even love. He has no inner feeling with the club and it's a scary but incredible feeling to have to be that invested in a club that you don't support.'
Alejandro Garnacho also landed himself in hot water after liking one of Goldbridge's X posts in April when the YouTuber accused Erik ten Hag of 'throwing a 19-year-old under the bus' for taking him off at half time against Bournemouth.
Garnacho was reprimanded for his behaviour, but Ten Hag was happy to 'move on' from the incident after the forward apologised.
Meanwhile, Rasmus Hojlund's decision to do an interview with The United Stand back in February sparked a backlash, with Mail Sport exclusively revealing that Goldbridge was sent death threats in the aftermath.
It was reported that some of United's players were furious with Hojlund for granting an interview to the controversial fan channel, but the Danish striker dismissed this as 'fake news'.
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