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I always like seeing when someone at YouTube makes partner and one of my youtuber friends just did that a few days ago. His name is youtube.com/adrod (that's as in A for Aaron, D for Dominic and ROD for Rodriguez, not ad-rod or A-drod - it's A-D-Rod!). He's been uploading videos for about 8 months or so and has about 30 posted to date. He has 5,471 subs because he posts interesting creative videos. Yes, he's a weird little dude, but I'm sure he would be the first to tell you that, but aren't we all a little weird after all? So all you other weird little dudes and dudettes, keep posting videos and commenting and maybe you'll become a YouTube Partner too. Or not. Keep making interesting videos because that's what I like to see and I'm sure that's what others want to see too. The video below is adrod announcing he had hit 5,000 subscribers. And don't forget that I do review the channels of those who subscribe and become my YouTube fri...

Brittani Louise Taylor does her own take off on Katy Perry's song California Gurls and announces a contest where you can win a new iPad. You just have to go to U2B Idol like she says in the video and upload it to youtube.com/u2bidol . Brittani will chose who wins the contest - she doesn't say how long it is on for - and the winner nabs a brand, spankin' new iPad. Sweet deal. This is actually a really cool idea.

Each day I am always looking forward to the next video from CTFxC and today's was pretty good. Charles Trippy & Alli Speed got to swim with dolphins in Jamaica. Yesterday they went to Dunn's River Falls , which I thought was pretty awesome, but this was really cool. Alli did that thing where you stand on the dolphins' nose and they push you through the water. Also all the people there had to kiss each dolphin. It was interesting to see Olga Kay , Nayders07 and Sophie Hellyer (the pretty blond with the surf board) interacting with the various animals. Sophie is actually a pro surfer and model - check the video below: Sophie also has her own website and blog at sophielouisehellyer.com and I'll add her blog to "Blogs I Like" section of this page at the bottom right. Her YouTube channel is sophiehellyer and she needs some more subscribers. All I want to know is how did a pretty blond girl from North Devon, England end up as a professional surfer?

Since I compiled my list of The 100 Most Subscribed Canadian Youtubers , there has been some changes and additions with some new channels making the top 100 and others dropping off. First a list of the 25 channels that have gained the most subscribers since I posted that list: 1. wocder777 gained the most subs of all Canadian channels with an increase of 17,234. Oddly, when you go to that channel it now says they have no viewable videos. Hmmm... 2. kidrauhl increased almost as many with 17,185 new subs for young mister Bieber's channel. He remains the most subbed Canadian channel and just broke through the 700K level. His channel is also 25th most subscribed worldwide . 3. NextGenTactics had a very impressive increase in new subscribers, gaining 15,945 and now sits at 91K. They are pumping out several videos a day for the gamers out there. They also jumped up to the 29th spot from 35th last week. 4. FLuffeeTalks also had another good week, garnering 11,570 new subs and...

This has to be one of the coolest vlogs coming out of Jamaica from Charles Trippy & Alli Speed. In case you don't know they are over in Jamaica until August 2nd and are giving away Sony cameras, but you have to following each of them on Twitter and in each vlog they include a super secret word or phrase that you have to tweet to them. In this one, Charles & Alli along with their little group of misfits are being led to a waterfall deep in the forested area. It looks like Dunn's River Falls on the north coast near Ocho Rios and there are regular tours. There's Olga Kay , Alphacat , Lisa Lavie , and Nayders making there way to the river and filming all through the trek. I'll be looking forward to seeing their various channels for the footage they shot.

Oh, this is a topic that many parents dread. Almost like discussing the birds and the bees, there comes a time when a parent has to talk to their kids about death and dying and the inevitability of each person facing the conclusion of life. Shay Carl gets told by his wife Katilette that their young daughter, Princesstard is crying because she just found out that they are all going to die someday. So Shay & Mommytard go upstairs and talk to the kids. Shay tells little Princesstard that old people, younger people and even sometimes kids die and asks her if she wants to know what they believe happens when people die. From the bunk below, little 2-year-old Babytard pipes up "Yeah!" and we see her with a massive grin on her face. (Babytard is just sooo cute lol). Shay tells Princesstard that they believe that even after they die they'll all be together as a family which reassures her and she is smiling again. What Will Jesus be Doing In Heaven? Sontard: "Uploadi...

If you have an account on YouTube you no doubt have discovered that the website has adopted a new autoplay bar that appears on the bottom of videos that you watch. What it does is automatically start a new video from whomever you are subscribed to when a video you have clicked on ends. There is the option to "turn off" the autoplay, but it automatically turns back on with each new video you click on, so once again you have to turn it off. There is not a choice to disable it permanently, which is insideous on YouTube's part. Why would YouTube do this? The reason is, more views for videos. After a certain point, viewers and subscribers will tire of having to stop the autoplay "option" and just allow the next video to play. This is a revenue generator folks. It means more videos will be watched meaning higher advertising rates across the site. The experience most regular users of the website is that they LOOK for videos to watch click it and then move on to ano...

I don't know if you remember a while back, Shay Carl asked his viewers to submit pictures of them finding the elusive "Best Spot In The Lot". I knew I should have entered a picture in this contest! Didn't know there would be an accompanying video by NicePeter . Way to go Shaytards fans lol. Lots of great pictures. Take a look below at NicePeter's "Official Video" for Best Spot In The Lot: NicePeter can take just anything and make it into a good song. Definite thumbs up! Makes me want to pull out my guitar and start making my own songs for YouTube.

Why do I have the sneaky suspicion that Olga Kay has been planning this video for months and months? Olga brings back one of her characters (Razorblade) for this video. The dude putting the moves on Moosh Mommy, in case you don't know, is Swifty aka swiftkaratechop . He is also one of the more popular youtubers out there - he currently has 320,400 subs which puts him back on the Top 100 Most Subscribed List. KISSING SWIFTY is a PROCESS Here is a bit of behind the scenes stuff with Olga and Swifty. Is it just me or is there something of a spark between them lol. Methinks Olga likes Mr Swifty and Swifty is somewhat partial to her too. Then Olga heads off to Jamaica to join Charles Trippy, Alli Speed, Alphacat, Nayders07 and others which is pretty cool. I've been watching CTFxC for the last few days and you can find those videos on this blog as well.

Charles Trippy & Alli Speed land in Jamaica along with Alphacat, Lisa Lavoie and Nayders07. Charles announces a secret contest that allows viewers to win a new camera by tweeting a secret word to both Charles and Alli on Twitter for the next 7 days. If you don't know, their accounts are @CharlesTrippy & @AlliSpeed and you'll have to watch each video to find out what the super secret code word is that puts you in the running for the new Sony camera.

Lovely Katy Perry gets interviewed by Lisa Nova for about half an hour the other day and Perry was asked questions submitted by YouTubers that were voted on by YouTubers. Both looked great for the interview as Perry wore a purple wig and Nova was her usual hot self. Of course, the expected questions were there, such as if she "had really kissed a girl?" and whether she and Russell "planned on having children." There were over 400K votes cast on which questions Lisa would ask Katy and over 20,000 text and video questions submitted. You can find more about Perry on her YouTube channel, KatyPerryMusic which has 18 videos uploaded and 135413 subs with over 92 million views. Below you will find a behind-the-scenes video of Lisa preparing for the interview that's on her own channel, LisaNova .

As part of the "Life In A Day" project, Hank Green of the vlogbrothers shows his brother John what he did over the course of the 24th of July. That included a full day of waterslides, farmers markets, thirsty dogs and some juggling. Loved the shot of Hank's dog, Lemon, prostrate and being handfed an icecube and yes, Hank, Lemon has you both completely whipped lol. I was half expecting to see the camera pull back to show Hank fanning the dog with a giant palm leaf. The kayaking scene was totally awesome! I wish I could try something like that. I think visiting Missoula just for the kayaking might have made its way onto my bucket list. I liked his answer to the question: What am I afraid of? And Hank replied (while hurtling down a water slide) "I most fear that the wonderful way I live my life today will ruin life for generations of people to come." Always thinking about the planet's welfare and the wellbeing of others is one of the great things about...

Who are the most subscribed Youtubers in the United Kingdom? Here is the list of those UK YouTube channels with the highest number of subscribers. Leading the way is charles McDonnell with his charlieissocoollike of course. Actually, the first 4 are all on the worldwide Top 100 Most Subscribed List. First, here's the Top 10 Most Subscribed In The United Kingdom: charlieissocoollike 498956 panacea81 391420 bubzbeauty 350057 TopGear 327328 miaarose 253662 simonscat 223473 BBCWorldwide 218735 nerimon 205716 THEMIDNIGHTBEAST 177235 eddsworld 175444 1. charlieissocoollike - Charlie McDonnell is well out in front of all in subscriber count with about 100,000 more subs than then next highest YouTube channel. McDonnell's channel is just about to hit the 500K level in subs. He also recently dyed his hair red just before attending VidCon in Los Angeles. He has a 2nd channel about his band (Sons Of Admirals) with fellow youtubers at 2. panacea81 - Lauren Luke is THE top make-up g...

This looks like it was a fun time. There was a YouTube gathering in Orlando Florida on July 24th, and of course, Charles Trippy and Alli Speed had to pop in. The CTFxC squad of misfits were met by a throng of fans and Charles & Alli spoke before the crowd which was surprisingly large. The dudes from ST1RFRYTV (Scooter & River) were also on hand. Scooter was the guy with the funky, psycedelic flowery pants. And Charles' lovely sister Melissa and Alli's brother Justin rounded out the group. There were some others throughout the video, including jennielovely who besides being very pretty which you can see in the above video, is actually a good guitarist and singer. I found THAT out by going to her channel and subscribing. She has a mere 1,088 subs at this point, so make sure to show some support for this talented youtuber! And check out some of her videos. Next Charles and Alli and the group went to Harry Potter Land (actually called The Wizarding World Of Harry ...

I went on BlogTV last night and stumbled into spricket24 's broadcast and whoa man, does that girl know how to put on a show! I go there and first of all she wasn't talking for about 15-20 minutes - it turns out she was watching True Blood and would occasionally stare at the screen (I was beginning to think it was a Magibon video), but then she pulled out a blue sharpie... And you can see the results. Spricket also offered her old ipod (after giving it a "personal buffing") and signing it "With Love For Ever & Ever" and signed it Spricket24 & Karen Alloy. She then proceeded with the bodyart and I couldn't believe it when she wrote on her neck and face. At that point she pretended to just notice it was permanent marker lol. She had some stuff she has to work through (more of a personal nature and I won't discuss that here), but it was intriguing to get a glimpse into her life that I wouldn't have had if I hadn't logged into BlogTV ...

I was just checking out my Twitter (I'm at @Hey_Bradshaw ) and spotted that hiimrawn is live on Ustream. If he's still on, check him out at Rawn on Ustream . You might remember him as the guy at VidCon who played the acordian while wearing a bikini during the Station's set. See the video below:

Yes, I drool over Marina Orlova aka Hot For Words as much as the next guy and because she was kind enough to upload a new video while on vacation I thought I would include it here. Honestly, nothing to do with the fact she is looking very good perched on a boat and wearing a skimpy bikini lol. Hot For Words is her book that she published about a year ago where she helps people to grasp the origins of various words and phrases, which is also what she does on her YouTube channel. If you haven't spotted one of her other videos in the past, then you haven't been looking very hard. Marina is one of the most popular youtubers (currently number 72 on the Most Subscribed Of All Time List) and besides her obvious attractiveness, she makes videos that are funny and informative. She has 354,772 subscribers that she calls her "students" and has had more than 336 million views on all her videos and people tune in regularly to listen to her define words in her sexy Russian a...

One of the people I am subbed to on YouTube is AngryAussie from Australia obviously - hopefully you can tell by the accent in the videos and the scenery. I stumbled across this youtuber a few times and finally subbed a while back. He mostly does rants and the one the other day about Government Screwing With The Internet was good. Anyway, in the video above, he mentions that he has decided to take the plunge and make YouTube and other online endeavors his source of income. On YouTube, he currently has about 21K subs and over 1100 videos posted, so he has already shown a certain commitment.

Shane Dawson has decided to treat his family to a day at Disney World and filmed them meeting various characters and going on some rides. Shane proposes to Minnie Mouse, but it looks like she won't be there for the ceremony. He also has something of an awkward moment with Donald Duck and Pluto is a little bit frisky in the restaurant. The best part has to be Shane's mom's reaction to the Beverley, a cola drink that Shane brings her to imbibe. Be sure to try it the next time you are at Disney World . And don't forget that he is also planning on giving away that Mickey Mouse ears hat that he signed on the back. Just leave a comment on his video about what your favorite vacation moment with your own family was and Shane will decide which one he liked best and you get the ears.

Charles Trippy & Alli Speed are at Alli's parents' place to check up on their lovable dog Tyson, who was attacked by two other dogs a few days ago and has been forced to wear a cone. Poor mutt. Before they leave, Alli & her mom are going through all the submissions to the thirsty doggie contest (if you missed the contest, you're too late, but you can watch the video where they announce the contest in my post: Tweet A Pic Of Your Dog & Win A Dog Water Bottle From CTFxC ). They'll probably announce the winners on their website: internetkilledtv.com early next week. Charles also mentions a video that makemebad35 sent him of a band with a drummer that looks remarkably like Charles. Right down to the earrings. Later, they're looking through a bunch of photo albums and we see singer Gregg Allman who Charles' dad played drums for at one time while Allman was touring. Also we see his dad has become a fan of realannoyingorange . Allman is also seen...

This is a good little video from NicePeter showing how to play that great song he wrote about the Shaytards . He performed it just before introducing Shay Carl and Katilette for their "Q & A" at the recent VidCon in L.A. In case you haven't heard the song, I blogged about it: Shaytards Song By NicePeter And His Interview With Lovely Ceciley/Brett . I also had it as one of my favorites on my own YouTube channel, DellBoy010 , but now I have the above video as my current favorite. NicePeter has uploaded this video to his 2nd channel, appropriately called NicePeterToo , so you might want to check that out too.

About time that they had someone on ST1RFRYTV who was a REAL YouTube star! They talk with one of my personal favorites, the one, the only, ladies & gents please put your hands together for Wheezy Waiter ! (sound of crickets...) If you don't know much of the back story of who Wheezy is or how he is suddenly becoming well known on YouTube, River from St1rFryTV interviews him and works in several of Wheezy's things - clones, explosions, beardlovers, coffee... etc etc. What I liked was that River mentioned that Wheezy had said in one video that he had a mere 32 subscribers after having posted 100 videos onto YouTube, but he didn't give it. He now has around 350 on his main channel, as well as several more on his 2nd channel called Wheezy News . I didn't know he even had a second channel until recently and have been going through those videos. So, Wheezy (aka Craig Benzine) had only 32 subscribers after posting 100 videos - mostly family & friends. Personal...

Here's Dan Brown again, letting us know what's on the minds of viewers of his pogobat channel concerning his year-long Dan 3.0 project. If you have questions like "what the heck is Dan 3.0", just take a look at this post on Bradshaw's Blog : Info About The Dan 3.0 Project The video above is the second in a series that Dan has posted with viewers questions. The first is shown below. The Dan 3.0 Project where he gives over control of his life to viewers was announced at the recent VidCon in Los Angeles, and if you want to see Dan's presentation, that is also included in the link to the post above called "Info About The Dan 3.0 Project". Finally, if you have questions for Dan Brown yourself, don't hesitate to forward them to him on his pogobat channel. Here's the 1st FAQ video:

I just watched the latest video from the vlogbrothers , with John Green replying to his brother Hank Green about Hank's run in with semi-celeb Snooki from the terrible TV show called Jersey Shore. I'll show Hank's video below. John, like most people, are sort of "aware" of Snooki, one of the cast of Jersey Shore, that is all about "Ginos" and showing off their abs and scorin' with the hot chicks. Just your basic teen fodder for the hormonally abundant and intellectually-challenged. Hank had run into Snooki at an airport when he was returning from VidCon and was telling John about how Snooki was "perplexed" that someone had asked Hank for an autograph while she was in the room. John decided to check out Snooki's Twitter account (she's at Sn00ki Snooki tweets: "Everyone please stop having heart attacks when i miss an apostrophe or coma or period. Dont wanna pop a blood vessel in your eyeballs :) "First off Snooki,...

Missed seeing one of my favorite youtubers Community Channel aka Natalie Tran, who has been away seemingly for ever, but she returns with a funny story about wrong numbers. I love the line she said when the old dude called the 2nd time and started blathering on about how he was so perplexed about getting her again and that he had "punched in all the same numbers." "It's crazy grandpa. Write that down and copywrite that shit before someone steals that story." LOL, classic Natalie. I may have to steal that story myself. And it's Natalie's birthday and because I didn't know beforehand, I wasn't able to get her anything. Well, that is my story and I'm sticking with it. A belated Happy Birthday to Natalie from Community Channel in case you ever read this and I promise at least a card next year. Honest, I'm writing your birthday on my calendar (hope that doesn't sound too stalkerish. It'll go with the lock of hair I took from yo...

After watching this video, I want to restore my comic book street cred and go to Comic-Con 2010. Not for the comic books, but for the hot booth babes that are sprinkled amongst the nerdtaria. I could do what MediocreFilms does, just take a fake microphone and pretend to interview the smokin' girls. Why didn't I think of that? ("Because you're an idiot Bradshaw." Me: "Hey!"). Actually I think I will consider doing that for the 2011 Comic-Con. Besides the hot chicks there are a bunch of youtubers all through Comic-Con . You don't really care do you? You're replaying various parts of the video to watch the girls in skimpy costumes (actually that's what I'm doing). MediocreFilms interviews different youtubers while there including The Fine Brothers . But you don't care. Just go back and oogle the girls. MediocreFilms is at Comic-Con all week and will be uploading more videos about his misadventures if you want to check that out o...

Yesterday was "Pi Approximation Day" according to Wheezy Waiter . In case you don't know what Pi Approximation Day entails, yesterday was the 22nd of July and with July being the 7th month and you divid 22 by 7 you get about the value of Pi = 3.14. Actually, according to Wikipedia, the source for all my brilliant commentary, March 14th is also celebrated as a day to celebrate Pi as the 3rd month, 14th day, hence 3-1-4 Sharp Dressed Monkey You may notice that Wheezy is looking particularly dapper in this video. That is of course due to his taking fashion advice from the monkey in the suit (or rather, from the picture of the monkey in a suit). That is one sharp dressed chimp.

Ray William Johnson brings us the latest in viral videos on his Equals Three show and heading the list is a little skateboard mishap caught on film when a chunky news reporter ventures out onto the halfpipe at the local skateboard park. I first thought they were going to talk to old bearded dude who was coping a feel each time a boarder zips passed, but then the reporter gets tuned when one kid is trying to skate down the side. The 2nd video Ray talks about is the cameo from that dog that talked in the movie Men In Black. This freakish pug actually does seem to say "Batman!" several times and they made it into the Batman theme song from the old Adam West show from the 1960s, shown below: Then, just when you thought it was safe to be out in the country, we get this weird acid trip-like video from cyriak who has these cows dancing to techno. The cows just start bopping to the music and before you know it, well just watch the video. It sorta reminds me of one of those ...

Shay Carl and the rest of the Shaytards clan are preparing to invade one of Utah's largest water parks called Seven Peaks Water Park Olympus Stylus 550 . The footage shot with the newer camera is not quite up to the HD beauty of the camera that Shay uses for usual Shaytards vlogs, but if you're taking a camera into a pool, you need to give up a little quality if you want to get some underwater shots. Rocktard looked pretty cool when Mommytard was carrying him (love the little hat he was wearing to keep the sun off). Liked the scene where Katilette is filming Shay in the wave pool with the youngins on the raft and he holds up Babytard to wave and she is just looking off waving indiscriminately. Later we see Shay's brother Casey (and I think Katilette says her cousin, Marcell?) coming down the orange slide and Sontard - who i think is still trying to pull his suit outta his wedgie. Then the big man himself, Shay Carl flies down the slide and for a brief second I think...

Here's Wheezy's take on why wednesday contain an over abundance of suckage. "They used to call it hump day. But now I think that's an inappropriate notion..." Deep, in-depth lyrics. Right here with Wheezy Waiter . So do you thing "Explosion Wednesdays!" (KA-BOOM!!!) should become a thing? Or is it already a thing? I did like "If the days of the week were the Atlantic Ocean, you'd be drowning in the f'ing seaaaa!" And what do you think about Wheezy's excellent handstand skills? This time next year he'll be doing all his videos while standing on his hands. He's an innovator like that. Only he does need to keep the Wheezy belly covered lol. Don't need to see the belly-beard.

Hey, thanks IJ! Thanks a lot! Now I have that darn "Nom Nom" song stuck in my head too. If you are unfamilar with Ask IJ, this is where (Nom Nom Nom Nom) viewers get to ask ijustine a question and she later answers it. Where can you ask IJ a question? Well, (Nom Nom Nom) I'm glad you asked! twitter.com/ijustine dailybooth.com/ijustine facebook.com/ijustine (Nom Nom Nom Nom) myspace.com/ijustine Or you could wait for her next visit to the local Apple store and ask her then. Just go to one (or all) of the various social media sites and like, befriend and follow to your hearts content and then ask the question that you've been yearning to whisper in her ear. Right now my question is "Why did you have to tell me about that blasted Nom Nom song?" (Nom Nom). I think I know the cure for getting this song outta my head - keep playing the beginning of this video over and over and listen to the "Hey, Hey, You Can Ask IJ" song. Better? I think it ...