In 2012, YouTube redesigned their website, as videos with cleavage thumbnails attracted many clicks but were abandoned instead of being watched. ![]() From then on he changed his content to sex, gossip, and news. It quickly became his most successful video at the time, with 1.8 million views. The rest of the video's content was DeFranco talking. The video's thumbnail image was what the title described, except that the image only flashed for a split second. In August 2007, DeFranco conducted an experiment by uploading a video titled "Big Boobs and You". He streamed on BlogTV twice a week and took a cut of the revenue which was up to $12 CPMs. In the same year, DeFranco opened his second YouTube channel, " PhilipDeFranco", which includes a series of vlogs which he calls " The Vloggity". Īn online viewer census from 2007 showed that one-third of his viewers were 16- and 17-year-old girls. All of his sxephil videos from before March 13, 2017, have been privated or deleted from the channel.īefore the YouTube partner program was available, he asked for donations from his viewers after claiming to have run out of money, and selling everything except his Mac, camera, and clothes, and overdrawing his bank account so he could spend a night in a hotel as he found it too scary sleeping in a car in Brooklyn. Early on, he began calling his news-centered videos The Philip DeFranco Show. On September 15, 2006, DeFranco created his YouTube account during his finals at East Carolina University, originally registered as "sxephil", in which he talks about "newsie type stuff, and things that matter to today." DeFranco has cited his early influences as Ze Frank, Dane Cook, and the Vlogbrothers. YouTube 2006–2011: Early years Launching The Philip DeFranco Show ĭeFranco was raised Catholic but later identified as atheist. ĭeFranco lived in a car until moving back with his father in Tampa, Florida, on condition that he would return to college, which he ultimately did not do. He worked as a waiter in a number of restaurants while making videos in 2007. In 2007, Phil lived in Tampa, Florida, and later Atlanta, Georgia. He was a student at the University of South Florida, a biology student at Asheville–Buncombe Technical Community College, and later a junior at East Carolina University. Once in Florida, he used his USF student loan to purchase a computer and camera. ![]() He has a stepmother who works at a car dealership. Over his decade-long YouTube career, he has been cited as a pioneer of YouTube and news coverage online, and has won various awards for his online content.ĭeFranco was born Philip James Franchini Jr. ![]() His primary channel has accumulated over 6.3 million subscribers and 1.44 billion views, as of August 2022. He is best known for The Philip DeFranco Show, a news commentary show centered on current events in politics and pop culture.ĭeFranco has also been involved in the creation of other successful channels on YouTube, including personal vlog channel Philly D, the YouTube Original news channel SourceFed and its nerd culture spinoff SourceFed Nerd, gaming channel Super Panic Frenzy, and family vlogging channel TheDeFrancoFam. born December 1, 1985), commonly known by his online nickname PhillyD, and formerly known as sxephil, is an American media host and YouTube personality. Philip James DeFranco (born Philip James Franchini Jr. On Sarah Hyland's controversy regarding an Instagram post she made
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