Tested.com is a website and YouTube channel that focuses on maker culture and technology. Originally started by Will Smith and Norman Chan in 2010, with Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman later joining the company. The channel has since been rebranded to Adam Savage's Tested, with Hyneman and Smith both no longer involved.
SourceFed was a YouTube channel and news website created by Philip DeFranco in January 2012 as part of YouTube's original channel initiative, and was originally produced by James Haffner. SourceFed mainly focused on popular culture, news and technology.
React Media, LLC is an American media company, founded by brothers Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, creators and media entrepreneurs. React Media produces the React video series, their several timed-spoiler series, narrative web series, and created a "transmedia" sitcom on YouTube, MyMusic.
MyMusic is an American web transmedia mockumentary sitcom created by the Fine Brothers that premiered on April 15, 2012 on the MyMusicShow YouTube channel. The series follows a group of co-workers that are employed under a music production company. MyMusic is the first transmedia sitcom on YouTube. The series was part of YouTube's Original Channel Initiative.
Philip James DeFranco, commonly known by his online nickname PhillyD, is an American news commentator and YouTube personality. He is best known for The Philip DeFranco Show, a news commentary show centered on current events in politics and pop culture.
Hartley Sawyer is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kyle Abbott on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless and Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man on The CW series The Flash.
PBS Digital Studios is a YouTube channel and network through which PBS distributes original educational web video content. It comprises both original series and partnerships with existing YouTube channels. Most of the series are about science, popular culture, art, food, news, and music.
Jennifer Ann McAllister, also known as jennxpenn, is an American internet personality and actress. McAllister is best known for her work on YouTube, where she has amassed over 3.5 million subscribers, and was nominated for a Shorty Award and four Teen Choice Awards.
Uproxx is an entertainment and popular culture news website. It was founded in 2008 by Jarret Myer and Brian Brater, and acquired by Woven Digital in 2014. The site's target audience is men aged 18–34. It was acquired by Warner Music Group in August 2018, with Myer and CEO Benjamin Blank remaining in control of the company's operations.
Jamin Warren is co-founder and chief executive of Kill Screen, a video game arts and culture company that The New Yorker called "the McSweeney's of interactive media". He was formerly the host of the PBS webseries Game/Show. Warren also founded Twofivesix, a marketing agency preparing brands for the future of play and interactivity.
Wilson Cleveland is an American actor, producer and writer. He is known as the creator, producer and co-star of Leap Year and The Temp Life.
Bart Baker, is an American entertainer, web-based comedian, video producer, singer, rapper, and parody artist. He is best known for making parody videos of notable songs, for which Billboard dubbed him one of the most prolific makers of music parodies.
The 4th Annual Streamy Awards was the fourth installment of the Streamy Awards honoring streaming television series. The awards were held on September 7, 2014 at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. They were hosted by the YouTube stars Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart. To reflect the industry as it had evolved since 2009, 10 new award categories were added, including multiple awards honoring the short-form video hosting website Vine, a new category to honor traditional TV media engaging in online content, and categories reflecting recent YouTube trends. The event also honored the American comedian Joan Rivers whose funeral had been earlier in the day and who many of the attendees had previously met on her web chat series In Bed With Joan, including Jenna Marbles, Tyler Oakley, and Grace Helbig, which was praised as a heartfelt moment of the show. The show was received well in media publications and generated a high level of social media interest, although it did receive criticism for the influence of sponsors at the event.
I Want My Phone Back is an American game show web series that premiered on November 2, 2016 on Comcast Watchable. In 2017, it was subsequently picked up by Facebook Watch where it has since aired two seasons.
Courageous Leaders is an American web television docuseries created by Executive Producer, Wilson Cleveland and hosted by Hartley Sawyer. The series, presented by Hiscox and distributed by Vox Media debuted on June 1, 2015 on Vox, The Verge, SB Nation and Curbed.
Kept Man is a 2014 short film suspense drama directed by Brett Annese and written by Wilson Cleveland, who also stars. The film, set in Los Angeles is a two-hander that depicts the intense relationship between Cleveland's character Jake and his new boyfriend, Brian played by Hartley Sawyer, who is losing his grip on reality.
BlackBoxTV Presents is an American horror anthology web series created by Tony E. Valenzuela and Philip DeFranco. The first season, which featured a cast of YouTube creators including DeFranco, iJustine and Shane Dawson, was self-funded by Valenzuela and debuted on the BlackBoxTV YouTube channel on August 17, 2010.
Tony Edvard Valenzuela is an American director, producer and writer widely known for creating BlackBoxTV, a YouTube channel dedicated to short horror films and series. He also directed The Axe Murders of Villisca (2017), for IFC and Fight of the Living Dead.
