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Philip DeFranco Biography

Philip DeFranco is one of the most popular and richest YouTube Star who was born on December 1, 1985 in New York City, New York State, United States. Libertarian host of The Philip DeFranco Show (PDS) whose YouTube videos have received over 1 billion views. He won the Show of the Year award at the 2016 Streamy Awards.

He had an internet discussion about gun laws with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in 2013.

Philip James DeFranco (born Philip James Franchini Jr.; born December 1, 1985), sometimes known online as PhillyD or sXePhil, is an American news commentator 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.

Due to joining YouTube in 2006 and soon gaining a sizable audience on the website, DeFranco has been cited as a pioneer of both YouTube and new media, in general. Lucas Shaw of TheWrap described DeFranco as “one of the first video bloggers to find success on YouTube, and has since built”, as well as having an, “entrepreneurial spirit and understanding of YouTube”. DeFranco was described by The Washington Post as part of the first generation of YouTube’s creators, with the publication writing, “there are the originals, the older ones who became famous on YouTube when the only sort of Internet fame that existed was random viral stardom: Phil DeFranco, Jenna Marbles and Hannah Hart, for instance.”

He married Lindsay DeFranco in March 2015. He and Lindsay have sons named Phillip Trey and Carter William.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In August 2007, DeFranco conducted an experiment by uploading a video titled “Big Boobs and You”. The video’s thumbnail image was what the title described, except that the image only flashed for a split second. The rest of the video’s content was DeFranco talking. It quickly became his most successful video at the time, with 1.8 million views. From then on he changed his content to sex, gossip, and news.

Philip DeFranco Net Worth

Philip DeFranco is one of the richest YouTube Star from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philip DeFranco's net worth $12 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He worked as a waiter while living in his car before uploading his first YouTube videos.

He won the 2013 SourceFed Award for Audience Choice for Best Series of the Year.

Later in the year, DeFranco hosted the 25th anniversary of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week.

An online viewer census from 2007 showed that one-third of his viewers were 16- and 17-year-old girls. In the same year, DeFranco opened his second YouTube channel, “PhilipDeFranco”, which includes a series of vlogs which he calls “The Vloggity”.

Dating as far back as 2008, DeFranco has been frequently cited as pondering a potential end to his eponymous news series or an exit from the platform altogether. DeFranco’s reasons for this have varied from a personal want to “not overrun [his] time” to being frustrated with platform’s unstable revenue source. In April 2018, DeFranco again expressed frustrations with the YouTube platform and detailed his progress on developing a network; he hired a six-person research and investigative team, curated hosts for short- and long-form content, and tested a morning podcast, among other things in preparation for the network’s launch. Months later while at VidCon, he stated that he saw himself walking from hosting the PDS within three years, saying “I don’t know how to do the show I’m doing now in three years without phoning it in.” He also added that he would remain online in some capacity, expressing, “in some way, I will always want to make a show and have that interaction, and I think that will evolve.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Philip DeFranco height 6 ft 0 in Philip weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

On September 15, 2006, DeFranco began his YouTube career during his finals at East Carolina University when he created his YouTube channel, originally registered as “sxephil”, in which he talks about “newsie type stuff, and things that matter to [him] today.” DeFranco has cited his influences as Ze Frank, Dane Cook, and the Vlogbrothers. Early on, he began calling his news-centered videos The Philip DeFranco Show. The oldest video available for public viewing on DeFranco’s channel is a 2006 non-news video titled “Top 10 ‘How to Get Out of an Argument'”.

In October 2008, DeFranco co-starred with Jessica Rose and Kevin Wu in Hooking Up, written and directed by Woody Tondorf as a promo for HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO). Hooking Up is a scripted 10-episode web series set at a fictional university where the students spend most of their time emailing and using Facebook, but still manage to miscommunicate. Guest appearances on Hooking Up were made by Kevin Nalty, Michael Buckley, and other popular Internet celebrities.

Who is Philip DeFranco Dating?

According to our records, Philip DeFranco married to Lindsay Jordan Doty . As of December 1, 2023, Philip DeFranco’s is not dating anyone.

In 2008, he stated in an interview that his listed salary of $250,000 from a number of sources on the Internet, including and beyond YouTube, was initially a joke, but would become accurate. He has been paid by companies to create videos to promote Carl’s Jr.’s burgers, and the US television series Lie to Me and Fringe.

Top Facts about Philip DeFranco

Facts & Trivia

Philip Ranked on the list of most popular YouTube Star. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Philip DeFranco celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.

DeFranco used his large audience to win the Spore Creature Creator, a game promotion competition, and in doing so beat celebrities such as Stan Lee, Katy Perry, and Elijah Wood. The winner’s prize was to choose which charity would receive a donation of $15,000. He chose the PKD Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which he attributed to his family’s history with the condition. DeFranco’s large online audience also enabled him to win Wired’ s Sexiest Geek of 2008 competition, a reader voted contest.

What disease does Philip DeFranco have?

Personal life. DeFranco has polycystic kidney disease which he inherited from his father and grandfather.

What does Phil DeFranco make?

Does Philip DeFranco have a podcast?

The Philip DeFranco Show on Apple Podcasts.

Who is LinzDeFranco?

Linz DeFranco (@LinzDeFranco) / Twitter. Media Literacy org founder. Mental Health advocate. Billy Joel super-fan.

Why was Sourcefed Cancelled?

And when the hosts left, it made a sizeable dent in the viewership. That is likely the principle reason for Sourcefed’s sagging ratings and eventual cancellation. Pardon the pixels. If you know anything about the business end of YouTube, you know that it’s VERY difficult to be profitable on the platform.

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