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Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels. YouTube. YouTube Trends. YouTube Reveals Original Channels. The channels are part of the initiative from the group led by Robert Kyncl at YouTube, making advance payments to creators and production companies as high as $5 million per channel.

YouTube Reveals Original Channels

The lineup of YouTube’s over 100 new channels spread into almost every content vertical—19 in total—from fashion to fitness, comedy to entertainment, sports to politics which in all will generate about 25 hours of new, original programming a day. This was a tough story to sit on, especially for us, as rumors of which production companies had received which channels had begun circling around town in the past few weeks. Even Deadline.com, like us, had to respect confidentiality agreements with Google/YouTube in not breaking the news. Here’s the list from YouTube below. More great content creators coming to YouTubeWonderful things happen when cool technology meets great entertainment.

YouTube Original Channel Initiative. Frederator Studios. Frederator Studios is an independent American animation studio founded by Fred Seibert in 1997, with its first series launching in 1998.

Frederator Studios

The studio focuses primarily on artists who write their own shorts, series, and movies. Ray William Johnson (RayWJ)... Ray William Johnson. Ray William Johnson (born August 14, 1981) is an American video blogger, producer, and actor best known for his YouTube series Equals Three, in which he provides commentary on viral videos.[1][2] Many of the videos featured on Equals Three are noted to have received an additional boost of popularity.[3][4][5][6][7] In February 2011, one industry publication noted that Johnson had six of the top 20 most watched videos of the month.[8] In early September 2012, Johnson had accumulated nearly two billion video views.[9] As of December 2013[update], his YouTube channel had more than 10.6 million subscribers, and more than two billion video views.[10] On March 9, he announced that the last episode of Equals Three would air on March 12, 2014.

Ray William Johnson

Early life Career YFM has released 31 original songs, 2 remixes of original songs, 1 remix of another artist's song, 1 mashup, and 8 covers through the channel. References. RayWilliamJohnson. YouTube. RCVR. RCVR (pronounced Receiver) is a transmedia science fiction series created for the internet by producer-director David van Eyssen, which offers an explanation for the exponential growth in science and technology since the late 19th century.

RCVR

The series was also produced by Tavin Marin Titus through production company Science To Fiction. The original story on which RCVR was based was written by van Eyssen. Brian Horiuchi and van Eyssen wrote the first season of RCVR as a team. The series premiered on Machinima on September 21, 2011 and met with critical acclaim and a user "like" rating of 96%. The show generated 2.6 million views in 14 days and approximately 6 million views by October 2011.[1] The first season of RCVR is made up of 6 episodes each which are 6–9 minutes in duration. Jenna Marbles. Jenna N.

Jenna Marbles

Mourey (born September 15, 1986), more commonly known by her pseudonym Jenna Marbles, is an American entertainer and YouTube personality. She lives in Santa Monica, California, with her two dogs, Mr. Marbles and Kermit. YouTube was very good to this pair. HONOLULU -- Two teenagers from Hilo have turned their YouTube stardom into a feature film that opened over the weekend.

YouTube was very good to this pair

"Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure" showed in Honolulu on Saturday and in Hilo on Sunday. It now moves to California, where the Bay Area premier has already sold out. Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi have made 55 short videos and posted them on the YouTube video-sharing Web site since 2005. Altogether, the clips -- on topics such as "How to Be a Ninja," ''How to Be Emo" and "How to Be a Nerd" -- have been viewed 150 million times. Their video channel "Nigahiga" has over 624,000 subscribers -- the second most on YouTube. The pair are famous enough to get stopped in mainland airports and have girls take photos of them with mobile phone cameras. Over 100 fans came to their film's Honolulu premiere at Restaurant Row Saturday to ask for their autographs and take photos with them.

"There's not much to do other than go watch a movie. Demand for their unique style grew. Ryan Higa. Ryan Higa (also known by his YouTube username Nigahiga /ˈniːɡɑːhiːɡɑː/) is an American YouTube celebrity, actor, comedian, and producer of Japanese descent.

Ryan Higa

Nigahiga. YouTube Top 100 Most Subscribed Channels List - Top by Subscribers. PewDiePie. PewDiePie. Smosh. Indiegogo Food Battle The Game. Smosh Looks To Raise $250,000 On Indiegogo For Food Battle Video Game. Since way back in 2006, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla of Smosh (aka the current most-subscribed YouTube channel with 11.4 million subscribers and counting) have peppered each other on camera with edible products and non sequiturs for their annual and epic Food Battle.

Smosh Looks To Raise $250,000 On Indiegogo For Food Battle Video Game

In 2012, the fans got in on the action by way of an elimination bracket, in which the populace chose Padilla’s egg roll to take on Hecox’s pink frosted sprinkled donut. For 2013, the world’s largest video sharing site’s most popular comedic duo thought of incorporating its massive fan base in a much bigger way. Hecox and Padilla just announced the launch of their Indiegogo campaign dubbed SMOSH Food Battle: THE GAME. And the crowdfunding initiative is exactly what it sounds like. Funny or Die.