Jubilee Media

Jubilee Media is a digital video studio. It describes itself as “a digital media company that pushes boundaries, tackles taboos, and breaks the rules,” on the premise that “discomfort and conflict are pivotal forces in creating human connection.”

Channels and Formats

The company’s site describes three YouTube channels: its original channel, which it calls home to Middle Ground, Odd One Out and Ranking; a sister channel for dating content including Versus 1; and a third for reaction videos, behind-the-scenes material and pilot episodes. It runs open casting for participants and operates licensing, partnership and speaking-request businesses.

Surrounded

Surrounded is the format most directly relevant to this knowledge base. Its own feed describes it as a debate in which “one brave person faces twenty five” — “a single guest takes on twenty five people with opposing views” — released weekly on Sundays; the trailer is dated 30 April 2025 and the feed held 76 items as of 1 September 2026.

Recent episodes are explicitly political in construction, pairing a named guest against a group defined by opposing politics: “1 Young Politician vs 20 Boomers (ft. Maxwell Frost),” “1 Moderate vs 20 Progressives (ft. Tim Pool),” and “1 Black Conservative vs 20 Black Liberals.” The format’s premise is that political identity is the axis of the confrontation, which is what places the studio in this collection.

Sourcing Note

The founded: 2010 value is removed — the company’s site gives no founding date — as is the reach line “8 million+ subscribers across Jubilee flagship YouTube channels.”

The jason-y-lee and eric-lu founder connections are removed: neither slug resolves to a page in this knowledge base, the company’s site names neither, and both concern living individuals. The youtube connection is removed as adding nothing beyond digitalPresence.

Also removed as unsourceable: the account of the company originating from “the Jubilee Project volunteer collective”; the run dates given for Spectrum (2017–present) and Middle Ground (2018–present) and the descriptions of their mechanics; the claim that episodes “frequently feature voters, activists, and public servants”; the description of the audience-development strategy (subscriber polling, viewer-submitted questions, livestreamed follow-ups); and the assertions that its “emphasis on structured empathy exercises has influenced other digital outlets exploring depolarization content” and that it “collaborates with civic organizations and educational institutions that use its series in classrooms.”

Note that Spectrum does not appear among the shows the company currently lists on its own site, while Surrounded, which the previous page did not mention at all, is its most prominent current political format.