TheRadBrad

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theRadBrad
Personal information
Born
Bradley Lamar Colburn

(1987-02-10) February 10, 1987 (age 38)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.
Occupations
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2010–present
Genres
Subscribers13.8 million [1]
Views6.5 billion [1]
Network None (formerly Machinima, and later Maker Studios)
Associated acts
  • Cartoonz
  • TetraNinja
  • Gaming Nacho
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2011 [2]
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2013
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg10,000,000 subscribers2019
Last updated: August 2, 2025

Bradlee Lamare Coldburne Jr. (February 10, 1987), [3] better known by his online alias theRadBrad, is an American YouTuber and Let's Player most notable for his video game walkthroughs of various new games. [4] [5] [6] He has been interviewed by various publications since becoming active in 2010. [5] [6] As of October 2024, Colburn's channel has over 13.7 million subscribers and his videos have brought in over 6.3 billion views. [7] Footage [8] [9] [10] and images [11] from his gameplay videos have been used for illustrative purposes in articles by numerous publications. [12] [13] [14]

Colburn has been covered by various publications, including VG247 (when video game publisher Ubisoft sent him merchandise ahead of the launch of Watch Dogs 2 ), [15] VentureBeat , [4] and Rolling Stone . [16] FMV Magazine has referred to Colburn as "king of the YouTube walkthrough." [17]

During a wave of copyright issues that were affecting creators, some of Colburn's videos were falsely claimed by an automated system owned by the multi-channel network Scale Lab. He was directly apologized to by Scale Lab's CEO, David Brenner, in a Kotaku interview once the problem was discovered. [18] During a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone , Colburn's YouTube channel was identified by Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, as one of the "top gaming creators" on the platform. [16]

References

  1. 1 2 "About theRadBrad". YouTube.
  2. ↑ "theradbrad YouTube Stats by SocialBlade". November 16, 2011. Archived from the original on November 16, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  3. ↑ @thaRadBrad (February 10, 2021). "Appreciate all the birthday wishes. Started YouTube when was I was 23 and now I'm 34! Been the best years of my life thanks to all of you" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. 1 2 Grubb, Jeff (December 11, 2013). "YouTube ignores content-creator concerns in statement regarding mass copyright flagging". VentureBeat . Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Lanz, Michelle (August 29, 2014). "How gamer 'The Rad Brad' makes a living playing video games". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  6. 1 2 Butler, Mark (February 6, 2012). "Interview: TheRadBrad". www.fmvmagazine.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ "theradbrad YouTube Stats by SocialBlade" . Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  8. ↑ Beaumont, Mark (December 4, 2018). "The ten best video games of 2018". NME . Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ Zamora, Jayde Marvynne (February 21, 2017). "For Honor Servers Down To Make Way For New Updates?". Auto World News. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ Moore, Logan (July 11, 2017). "Crackdown 3 Receives 10 Minutes of Open World Gameplay Footage Showing Off New Weapons and Abilities". DualShockers. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  11. ↑ Villas-Boas, Antonio (August 10, 2016). "The best game I've played this year is an unfinished game from 2013". Business Insider . Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  12. ↑ Cohen, Joshua (April 25, 2017). "Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Gaming Channels Worldwide • March 2017". Tubefilter . Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  13. ↑ Elfwine, Alvin (April 25, 2017). "Ubisoft Releases For Honor Patch 1.06, Details Here". iTech Post. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  14. ↑ Walsh, James (May 16, 2016). "10 video games so good we didn't want them to end". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  15. ↑ Nunneley, Stephany (June 2, 2016). "Watch Dogs 2 gift sent to YouTube personality ahead of E3 2016". VG247 . Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  16. 1 2 Wang, Amy X. (October 22, 2018). "YouTube Comes Out Strong Against Europe's Copyright Directive". Rolling Stone . Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  17. ↑ Wong, Kevin (February 20, 2019). "The Best YouTube Channels". Complex . Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  18. ↑ Good, Owen (December 16, 2013). "YouTube Copyright Fiasco Get Wilder, But This Time Someone Admits Error". Kotaku . Retrieved October 9, 2019.


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