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Billy Reid (Canadian Songwriter)
William Edward Reid (born April 10, 1977) is a Canadian television and podcasting personality. He is known for his music and comedy videos on the World Wide Web and for his musical children's series "Pancake Manor," with over 1.8 billion views. Billy Reid is also a musician, filmmaker, and former TV host. Billy Reid was born in Victoria, British Columbia. Film and television Billy Reid is also among the first group of internet personalities to make a transition from the internet into network television. Along with Lara Doucette of Tiki Bar TV, Billy hosted the Canadian series ''Exposure'', a show that featured the best viral videos from the internet, part of the 2007 summer/fall lineup on the CBC. In March 2008, Reid was one of the first YouTubers invited by the YouTube staff to edit the homepage and choose the featured videos. Reid collaborated with YouTubers Rhett and Link for ''"T-Shirt War"'' a commercial in which they used 222 T-shirts with unique designs. "T-shirt ...
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Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur (born 27 June 1976) is a Canadian television and netcasting personality, bestselling author of two books, and keynote speaker. MacArthur (aka Amber Mac) is the former co-host of BNN's ''App Central'' and ''Bloomberg Brink'', G4TechTV's ''Call for Help'', and TWiT's ''The Social Hour'' (successor to ''net@night/ Inside the Net''). She was the most followed Canadian television personality on Twitter in 2008. In 2018, she was named DMZ's 30 inspirational women making a difference in tech. She is now the co-host of the 2018 AI podcast series, The AI Effect where she interviews notable guests such as Prime Minister Trudeau and Mayor John Tory. Amber is President of a digital media company called AmberMac Media, Inc. MacArthur used to produce and co-host her own video podcast, ''commandN'', and has also hosted on ''Torrent'' and ''Gadgets and Gizmos'' for G4techTV Canada. MacArthur worked for over a year for Citytv's City''News'' and CP24, and she had returned ...
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Spotify
Spotify (; ) is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 456 million monthly active users, including 195 million paying subscribers, as of September 2022. Spotify is listed (through a Luxembourg City-domiciled holding company, Spotify Technology S.A.) on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Spotify offers digital copyright restricted recorded music and podcasts, including more than 82 million songs, from record labels and media companies. As a freemium service, basic features are free with advertisements and limited control, while additional features, such as offline listening and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists. Spotify is available in most of Euro ...
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Amazon
Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company Amazon or Amazone may also refer to: Places South America * Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river * Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries * Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin Elsewhere * 1042 Amazone, an asteroid * Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, US People * Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress * Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon" Art and entertainment Fictional characters * Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer * Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters * The Amazon, a ' ...
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ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of April 2020, iTunes offered 60 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,000 TV shows, and 65,000 films. When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of music to offer songs from all five major record labels. The iTunes Store is available on most Apple devices, including the Mac (inside the Music app), the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod touch, and the Apple TV, as well as on Windows (inside iTunes). Video purchases from the iTunes Store are viewable on the Apple TV app on Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices and certain smart televisions. While initially a dominant player in digital media, by the mid-2010s, streaming media services were generating more revenue than the buy-to-own model used by the iTunes Store. Apple now operates its own subscription-based streaming music service, Apple Music alongside the ...
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Rhett & Link
Rhett James McLaughlin (born October 11, 1977) and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (born June 1, 1978) are an American comedy duo. Self-styled as "Internetainers" (a portmanteau of "Internet" and "entertainers"), they are known for creating and hosting the YouTube series ''Good Mythical Morning''. Their other notable projects include comedic songs and sketches, their IFC series ''Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings'', their YouTube Premium series ''Rhett and Link's Buddy System'', their podcast ''Ear Biscuits'', their novel ''The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek'', and their acquisition of Smosh. Early life and career Rhett and Link met on September 4, 1984, the date they started first grade at Buies Creek Elementary School in Buies Creek, Harnett County, North Carolina. They subsequently wrote a song and made a documentary about this meeting: '' Looking for Ms. Locklear.'' In an interview on ''The Tonight Show'', they stated that they had to stay in during recess because both of them h ...
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Justine Ezarik
Justine Ezarik ( ; born March 20, 1984) is an American YouTuber. She is best known as iJustine, with over one billion views on her YouTube channel. She gained attention as a lifecaster who communicated directly with her millions of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, ijustine.tv. She acquired notability in roles variously described as a "lifecasting star", a "new media star", or one of the Internet's most popular lifecasters. She currently posts videos on her main channel iJustine. Ezarik is known for her " 300-page iPhone bill" which followed the first month of service after the introduction of the first iPhone in 2007. The viral video of her review earned her international attention. Ezarik has ranked among the top 1000 Twitter users in the world with over 1.8 million followers. Ezarik has starred on the YouTube comedy series ''Annoying Orange'', as Orange's love interest Passion Fruit. In 2016, she was an advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger on the reality competition series ' ...
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Blippi
''Blippi'' is an American educational YouTube channel/video live-action program for toddlers and children up to the age of about five years old. History The show was created and the character originally played by Stevin John, who posted the first episode of the show on YouTube on February 18, 2014. Aiming to keep Blippi going, John joined the multi-channel network Moonbug Entertainment in 2020, which funds the series and other children's programs. It is dubbed in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish and Polish. Until May 2021, the Blippi character was only portrayed by Stevin John. On May 8, Clayton Grimm, who played Blippi in live performances, performed as Blippi for the first time on the channel and would host as an alternative Blippi with John. On October 9, 2021, Moonbug announced the addition of a new character named Meekah (played by Kaitlin Becker). The spin-off series ''Blippi's Treehouse'' started airing on December 1, 2021, on Amazon K ...
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CocoMelon
''Cocomelon'' (stylized as CoComelon) is an American YouTube channel and streaming media show acquired by the British company Moonbug Entertainment and maintained by the American company Treasure Studio. Cocomelon specializes in 3D animation videos of both traditional nursery rhymes and their own original children's songs. , they are the most-viewed YouTube channel in the United States and most-subscribed children's channel, second most-viewed channel and second most-subscribed channel in the world, behind T-Series. Content Cocomelon's videos include children, adults, and animals who interact with each other in daily life. The lyrics appear at the bottom of the screen in the same way on all displays. In 2020, Treasure Studio added Cocomelon content to Netflix, Roku, and Hulu. The company also delivers music through popular streaming services. YouTube content consists of standalone music videos, compilations, and livestreams. History Videos checkgate aka ThatsMeOnTV.co ...
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Moonbug Entertainment
Moonbug Entertainment (also known as just Moonbug, stylised as all-lowercase moonbug) is a British children's media company and multi-channel network headquartered in London, with an overseas office in Los Angeles, United States which creates, produces, and distributes children's video and audio content. It is currently owned by Candle Media, an American media company led by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs. Moonbug distributes children's entertainment intellectual property, including the YouTube channels Cocomelon and Little Baby Bum and YouTube series such as ''Mia's Magic Playground'', ''Blippi'', and ''My Magic Pet Morphle''. Since being founded in 2018, the company has distributed many series and franchises across animation, live-action and puppet shows. Moonbug shows can also be found on many streaming services. Moonbug programming is distributed on more than 100 platforms and is available in 26 languages around the world. History Moonbug Entertainment was co-founded in 2018 ...
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The Science Channel
Science Channel (often simply branded as Science; abbreviated to SCI) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel features programming focusing on science related to wilderness survival, engineering, manufacturing, technology, space, space exploration, ufology and prehistory. As of February 2015, Science is available to approximately 75.5 million pay television households (64.8% of households with at least one television set) in the United States. History In November 1994, Discovery Networks announced plans for four digital channels set to launch in 1996. Discovery originally named the network under the working title Quark!; this was changed before its launch to the Discovery Science Network. Discovery Science launched in October 1996 as part of the simultaneous rollout of the new channel suite (alongside Discovery Home & Leisure, Discovery Kids and Discovery Civilization). In 2007, adult shows began airing around the clock we ...
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Gemini Awards
The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States and the BAFTA Television Awards in the United Kingdom. First held in 1986 to replace the ACTRA Award, the ceremony celebrated Canadian television productions with awards in 87 categories, along with other special awards such as lifetime achievement awards. The Academy had previously presented the one-off Bijou Awards in 1981, inclusive of some television productions. In April 2012, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced that the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards would be discontinued and replaced by a new award ceremony dedicated to all forms of Canadian media, including television, film, and digital media, dubbed the "Canadian Screen Awards". The first annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on 4 March 2013. The Geminis c ...
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