Nikolai Petukhov
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Content 2026

Super Bowl LX

Turning one night into 35.9M views and global press.

Role
Content producer & field cast member
Year
2026
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Tools
iPhone, CapCut

Overview

I performed as a bush in Bad Bunny’s halftime show. Then I posted the day.

I was one of the performers dressed as bushes in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show. When I got home after the event, I lay on the floor for five minutes, trying to process what had just happened.

Then I opened CapCut and turned the footage I already had into a GRWM (“get ready with me”) video. It went up at 11:33 PM that same night.

The idea

A one-second hook, then the whole day.

0–1 s · the hook
Me jumping out of the grass→“GRWM to halftime show w Bad Bunny”→“AS A BUSH”
1–30 s · the story
7am wash→Getting ready→Rehearsal & backstage→The show→Night

GRWM is a format people already know how to watch. The twist is in the caption: the person getting ready is about to become a bush on the biggest stage of the year. The text lands in the first second, before anyone can scroll away.

The edit in CapCut: the hook clip, then the day in order.
The edit in CapCut: the hook clip, then the day in order.

Results

35.9M views across Instagram and TikTok, with no paid push.

MetricInstagramTikTok
Views31.4M4.5M
Likes2.7M595K
Shares692K24K
Saves94.3K26K
New followers12.4K2.7K
Avg. watch time (30 s video)19 s15.3 s

Instagram also reached 20.7M accounts and drove 288K profile visits. On TikTok, 23% of viewers watched to the end.

Instagram · overview
Instagram · overview
Instagram · engagement
Instagram · engagement
TikTok · key metrics
TikTok · key metrics

Press

The video turned into a news story.

The show itself was watched by 128M viewers in the U.S. My reel was picked up by TIME, People and BBC Radio 1, and NBC Bay Area interviewed me as a halftime performer and UC Berkeley student. My audience grew to 11K+ followers, up 1,200%.

NBC Bay Area: “Bad Bunny halftime ‘bush’ performers go viral”
TIME
TIME
People
People
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Takeaways

What made it travel.

SpeedPosted at 11:33 PM on show night, while everyone was still talking about it.
A known formatGRWM needs no explanation, so the surprise does all the work.
The hook is the caption“AS A BUSH” in the first second explains the whole video before anyone scrolls.