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SourceFed
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. The main SourceFed channel mainly focused on popular culture, news, and technology. SourceFed was a part of DeFranco's portfolio of Internet-based media properties, including his own eponymous news YouTube series. That portfolio was named DeFranco Creative and later renamed SourceFed Studios when acquired by Discovery Communications' Revision3. On March 20, 2017, the cancellation of SourceFed, along with its still-active sister channels, was announced. The closure of the SourceFed Studios network was decided by the newly formed Group Nine Media, led by Discovery Communications, which was formed as a merger between SourceFed Studios and four other networks in October 2016. The final SourceFed video was a farewell livestream broadcast on March 24, 2017. Around the time of the closure of Source ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SourceFed Studios
SourceFed Studios was an American digital media company and multi-channel network created by Philip DeFranco in 2011. After finding success during the early years of YouTube with his eponymous news show, DeFranco secured funding from YouTube and launched SourceFed as part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative in 2012. SourceFed was one of the more successful YouTube-funded channels and a nerd culture-focused spinoff, SourceFedNerd, was launched in 2013. DeFranco then sold his DeFranco Creative portfolio, which included SourceFed to Revision3, a subsidiary of Discovery Digital Networks (DDN). Under that portfolio, SourceFed's production and hosting staff launched and worked on various sister channels including SourceFedNerd, People Be Like, Super Panic Frenzy, and ForHumanPeoples (later rebranded as Nuclear Family). In 2016, DDN folded Revision3 into Seeker and renamed DeFranco Creative as SourceFed Studios. Seeker and SourceFed Studios were then acquired by Group Nine Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Newton
Ashley Rose Newton (born April 13, 1985), known professionally as Lee Newton, is an American actress, comedian and Web personality. She is a former co-host of the YouTube news channel SourceFed, as well as a regular performer of The Gym Comedy group. Newton studied theatre in college, and is an alumna of The Groundlings Sunday Company. Newton was a founding member of the production company and web-series known as The Valleyfolk, in which she was a co-host alongside fellow former SourceFed hosts Joe Bereta, Elliott Morgan, and Steve Zaragoza. Early life Lee Newton was raised in Coarsegold, California. She believes that she is "a blend of her Father's wit and sarcasm and her Mother's absolute absurdity." She also has a brother and a sister. Her brother, Jake, is a musician, and has his own YouTube channel. On March 2, 2012, a video was posted to her brother Jake Newton's YouTube channel of the two singing a song cover of Whitney Houston's " I Wanna Dance With Somebody". Newt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Morgan
Elliott Christopher Morgan (born February 22, 1987) is an American comedian, actor, writer, host, producer and YouTube personality. Morgan is best known for being a co-host of the YouTube channel '' SourceFed''. Morgan attended the University of Florida. Early life Morgan was born on February 22, 1987. Morgan attended the Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, graduating in 2005, and the University of Florida, graduating in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in zoology. Career ''SourceFed'' years (2012–2014) In 2011, YouTube began its funding of original channels, which was launched in 2012. One of these channels was '' SourceFed'', which was created by YouTube celebrity Philip DeFranco, who also created the popular ''Philip DeFranco Show''. DeFranco hired three hosts, Morgan being one of them, to write, produce, and present news videos that would be known as ''20 Minutes or Less''. The series would later be known as ''SourceFed'', named after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Turney
Megan LeeAnn Turney (born March 12, 1987) is an American Twitch streamer, internet personality, cosplayer, glamour model, Onlyfans model and vlogger. She became an internet personality through her hosting work, formerly with SourceFed and Rooster Teeth's '' The Know''. She also maintains a personal YouTube channel where she posts vlogs and Let's Play videos and live streams. In addition to her work with online media, Turney also cosplays at various conventions, such as Comic-Con. Cosplay modeling Through a friend's invitation to Ushicon 1, Turney was introduced to cosplaying and anime conventions in 2002. Turney's first cosplay was of Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon from the anime, ''Sailor Moon''. On her first cosplay, Turney recalled, "I failed terribly. I couldn’t make half the costume, it was incredibly difficult, but I was as happy as a clam." Since then, Turney became recognized for her cosplaying and was able to generate a following large enough to turn cosplaying into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Zaragoza
Esteban "Steve" Zaragoza (born June 9, 1982) is an American online personality, singer-songwriter, musician and web series host, notable for his work on the current events and news series ''SourceFed''. Zaragoza became a host on the series in 2012. The following year, Zaragoza became a host on its spin-off channel, ''SourceFedNERD''. On his personal YouTube channel, Zaragoza frequently combines or crosses between Black comedy, dark, Deadpan comedy, deadpan, Surreal humour, surreal, Character comedy, character, and sketch comedy in a non-sequitur fashion. Early career Zaragoza's first appearance was in 2008 for a music video by Buckcherry titled "Too Drunk...". Zaragoza received a sound department credit for ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' (2009). In 2011, Zaragoza appeared on an episode of the television series, ''1000 Ways to Die''. Prior to SourceFed, Zaragoza worked as a sound designer at Sony. Online projects Making his first app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip DeFranco
Philip James DeFranco (born Philip James Franchini Jr.; born December 1, 1985), commonly known by his online nickname PhillyD, and formerly known as sxephil, is an American media host 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. DeFranco has also been involved in the creation of other successful channels on YouTube, such as the YouTube-funded news channel SourceFed and its nerd culture spinoff SourceFed Nerd. His primary channel has accumulated over 6.5 million subscribers and 2.3 billion views, as of March 2025. Having been involved on YouTube for nearly two decades, he has been cited as a pioneer of YouTube and news coverage online, and has won various awards for his online content. Early life DeFranco was born Philip James Franchini Jr. in The Bronx, New York City, New York. He is of Italian descent. He was a student at the University of South Florida (USF), a bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trisha Hershberger
Trisha Lyn Hershberger (born September 15, 1982) is an American YouTuber, vlogger, and television host. Her online career has seen her appear on various YouTube channels and websites, particularly those in the nerd culture niche. Often times in a hosting role, she often discusses video gaming-, technology-, and tabletop gaming-related topics. Early and personal life Hershberger was born on September 15, 1982, and grew up in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania. While growing up, she developed an interest in video games, technology, and DIY. After her parents banned her from using consoles, she taught herself to modify her family's home PC so that she could play video games. She won the Miss Pennsylvania Coed Pageant in 2002. A theater major, Hershberger expressed she went to school for entertainment, stating that "I liked performing. I knew that I liked being public-facing." Hershberger has also been noted to enjoy cosplaying and pin-up modelling. Hosting and YouTube career Hershberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barats And Bereta
Barats and Bereta was the web-based sketch comedy duo of Luke Barats and Joseph Bereta. Their viral videos have also earned them the description of an Internet phenomenon. At its peak, their YouTube channel had over 420,000 subscribers. Both have portrayed characters on the YouTube web series ''Annoying Orange''. History Formed in 2003, the duo originally made videos to amuse friends, often combining real and fictional acts. They met when both were students of Gonzaga University. These videos eventually made it onto their website and onto YouTube. NBC signed them for a one-year deal in 2006. "This is Culdesac", the sketch comedy pilot they produced, directed, wrote, edited, and acted in under contract, was not picked up by NBC. However their next television project was being a more traditional sitcom. The pilot did not result in the series airing. ''The Huffington Post'' has covered videos from the duo in multiple online publications. In 2012, Bereta became a host on the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philip DeFranco Show
''The Philip DeFranco Show'', often abbreviated and referred to as the ''PDS'', is a pop culture and news series hosted by American YouTuber Philip DeFranco, and his main claim to fame. The show has gone through several schedule changes through its lifetime, but as of 2023, airs weekly, Monday through Thursday. The first video with ''The Philip DeFranco Show'' included in its intro was uploaded on June 21, 2007. As DeFranco became increasingly popular, he signed with Revision3, which would eventually acquire all of DeFranco's assets, including the ''PDS''. ''The Philip DeFranco Show'' has been sponsored by Netflix, Ting, and State Farm. The show has been nominated for and has won several awards that focus on internet culture and web series. In 2017, DeFranco purchased his assets back from Group Nine (the company that replaced Discovery Digital Networks) and the ''Philip DeFranco Show'' is now a part of the Philip DeFranco Network and produced by Rogue Rocket, DeFranco's produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube Original Channel Initiative
The YouTube Original Channel Initiative was a $100 million program funded by Google in 2012 to bring original content onto YouTube. The original channel initiative was also meant to kick start Google TV. The channels are collectively known as "original", "premium" or "YouTube-funded" channels. History In September 2012, twenty of the 100 original channels started getting at least 1 million views a week. In October, YouTube introduced 60 new original channels. Google invested an additional $200 million into the original programming as well. The top 25 original programs also averaged around 1 million views per week at the time of the announcement. However, in November, YouTube ended funding for more than 60% of the approximately 160 channels it financed as part of the initiative. After cancellation, YouTube kept all incoming revenue from these channels that failed to recoup their initial investments. In November 2013, it was reported that the landing page for the original channels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Nine Media
Group Nine Media was an American digital media holding company based in New York City. The company comprises Thrillist, NowThis News, NowThis, The Dodo (website), The Dodo, and Seeker (media company), Seeker. The four brands, and former brand SourceFed, merged to form Group Nine Media in October 2016. In October 2019, Group Nine Media acquired PopSugar. In December 2020, Group Nine formed its own corporate SPAC to use the public funding for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination. In December 2021, Vox Media announced its intention to acquire Group Nine. The transaction was completed in February 2022, and Group Nine was folded into Vox Media. Ownership At the time of the 2016 merger, Discovery, Inc., Discovery Communications announced a $100 million minority investment in the collective organization, becoming the biggest shareholder before Axel Springer SE, Axel Springer. Discover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
