He is most notable for The Philip DeFranco Show, usually abbreviated as PDS, a news show centered on current events, politics, pop culture, and celebrity gossip in which he voices his opinion, often presented in a satirical manner and with frequent jump cuts to create a fast-paced feel. He uploads this show on a Monday through Thursday schedule on his primary channel, Philip DeFranco registered as sxephil. His network of channels has over two billion views, and over six million total subscribers, with his primary channel having accumulated over 4 million subscribers and 1.
DeFranco registered his sxephil YouTube channel in Early into his YouTube career, his audience led to his winning of various open access online polls. SourceFed spawned a spinoff channel, SourceFed Nerd. Since then DeFranco has been involved in launching ForHumanPeoples , a channel based on his merchandise line of the same name, which then transitioned to a sketch channel called Nuclear Family. He also helped launch Super Panic Frenzy , a gaming channel featuring other personalities signed by Discovery Digital, as well as TheDeFrancoFam , a family vlogging channel featuring his wife and son.
He has a stepmother who works at a car dealership. As a child, he attended St. Philip Neri's School. In his first semester of community college, he and his mother shared an English class together; the class was informed of the situation halfway through the semester by the lecturer.
In , Phil was living in Florida, and later Atlanta. He also worked as a waiter in a number of restaurants while making videos in DeFranco lived in a car until moving back with his father in Tampa, Florida, on condition that he would return to college, which he later failed to do.
DeFranco began his YouTube career during his finals at East Carolina University when he created his sxephil YouTube channel, calling it The Philip DeFranco Show , in which he talks about "newsie type stuff, and things that matter to [him] today. Before 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.
There are approximately 70 old videos that are unlisted or private as DeFranco finds them too embarrassing. An online viewer census from showed that one-third of his viewers were and year-old girls. 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. Inside the single-story sprawler, there are architectural details reminiscent of California missions, hardwood and tile floors, spacious public rooms and an eat-in kitchen with stainless appliances. Multiple sets of glassy French doors open to peaceful verandas, which overlook various parts of the gardens.
The master bedroom sports an original fireplace and the gigantic master bath verges on ecclesiastical, with soaring ceilings, clerestory windows and an ornate chandelier. Out back, the perfectly rectangular pool has an old-school diving board and sits conveniently adjacent to a poolside cabana with a bathroom, changing facilities and private offices.
For whatever reason, the increasingly posh Encino neighborhood has become residential nirvana for a multitude of successful YouTubers. Presumably he will soon opt to sell that property, though it is not currently listed on the open market. Get the latest scoop directly in your inbox. All Rights reserved. DeFranco 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.
DeFranco began his YouTube career during his finals at East Carolina University when he created his YouTube channel, calling it The Philip DeFranco Show registered as sxephil, in which he talks about "newsie type stuff, and things that matter to today. Before 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.
An online viewer census from showed that one-third of his viewers were and year-old girls. The videos thumbnail image was what the title described, except that the image only flashed for a split second.
The rest of the videos content was DeFranco talking. It quickly became his most successful video at the time, with 1. From then on he changed his content to sex, gossip, and news. He chose the PKD Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting polycystic kidney disease PKD, which he attributed to his familys history with the condition. DeFrancos large online audience also enabled him to win Wired s Sexiest Geek of competition, a reader voted contest.
He has been paid by companies to create videos to promote Carls Jr. DeFranco was a founding member of The Station, but left only a few months after it was created. Reviews submitted cover movies, video games, and technology. Mekanism, an advertising agency, was hired to promote him.
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