Beta Squad

Formation

Beta Squad was founded in February 2019, when the five members moved into the same house and started a shared channel. They had all made videos on their own and with each other beforehand, but the group let audiences see them together, and members told Tubefilter that their individual channels grew as a result.

In the eight months after the launch, the channel posted 16 videos, most of them being challenges, such as living on £1 for a day or comparing a $10 hotel with a $10 million one. It had nearly 400,000 subscribers by October 2019. The group filmed a joint video every Sunday and used the rest of the week for the members' own channels. Behind the camera, it worked with three rotating camera operators and at least two editors, who belonged to the Studio71 network, and was represented by Grace O'Reilly of the management company Moxie.

The Guardian reported in 2021 that Chunkz had lived since 2019 in a £5 million house with the other four members. He described the group as "like brothers who all happen to be YouTubers".

Charity match with AMP

On 2 June 2024, Beta Squad and AMP played a charity football match at Selhurst Park, the home ground of Crystal Palace. It was presented by the retailer JD Sports, and the proceeds went to The Water Project, a charity that provides drinking water to communities in need. The stadium had a capacity of 25,000, and JD Sports reported that 65,000 people had queued for tickets. The match was also broadcast live online.

Tubefilter reported that the tickets sold out in an hour and that the YouTube stream peaked at 700,000 concurrent viewers, with more than six million total views. Beta Squad's side included guests, such as Deji, JiDion and the football pundit Mark Goldbridge, while AMP, which includes Kai Cenat, had the comedian Druski as its coach. AMP also fielded a masked "mystery player" described beforehand as a current professional footballer. Fans suspected it was Djed Spence of Tottenham Hotspur, though Tubefilter noted this was only a working theory.

Beta Squad led 6–5 in the final minute before former England international Daniel Sturridge scored an equaliser for AMP. A penalty shootout had been planned, but a pitch invasion led to the match being suspended before it could take place.

2024–2025

In a December 2024 interview with Verge Magazine, the group said its joint channel had reached 10 million subscribers. They marked it with a photoshoot with commemorative plaques instead of a party. Members named the charity match as the highlight of their year. The interview was published to coincide with JD Sports' 2024 "Family" campaign, which the members appeared in.

A 2025 video on the channel had Ed Sheeran try to pick the professional singer out of six contestants. In it, Sheeran said that professional singers who mime during performances would not admit to doing so, and that he had never mimed because he performs with a loop pedal and a guitar. His comments were covered by People and Parade in August 2025.