Jellysmack has made a multimillion-dollar investment in creator commerce platform Fourthwall.
Founded in 2019, Fourthwall bills itself as an “all-in-one monetization platform” where creators can design their own homepages, digital shops, and membership programs for fans. It works with creators like Cody Ko, Marques Brownlee, Philip DeFranco, Simone Giertz, and Charlotte Dobre, and to date has processed over one million orders for them.
Jellysmack, meanwhile, partners with YouTube creators to re-optimize and distribute their videos across platforms like Snapchat and Facebook.
Jellysmack’s investment is part of Fourthwall’s third venture round. The companies are not disclosing exactly how much Jellysmack contributed, but say Fourthwall has now raised over $25 million total.
The duo did say that Jellysmack’s investment includes an exclusive partnership where it and Fourthwall will “bring new business opportunities in e-commerce and memberships directly to Jellysmack’s roster of creators.”
“We’re delighted to have Jellysmack on board as a partner and investor,...
Founded in 2019, Fourthwall bills itself as an “all-in-one monetization platform” where creators can design their own homepages, digital shops, and membership programs for fans. It works with creators like Cody Ko, Marques Brownlee, Philip DeFranco, Simone Giertz, and Charlotte Dobre, and to date has processed over one million orders for them.
Jellysmack, meanwhile, partners with YouTube creators to re-optimize and distribute their videos across platforms like Snapchat and Facebook.
Jellysmack’s investment is part of Fourthwall’s third venture round. The companies are not disclosing exactly how much Jellysmack contributed, but say Fourthwall has now raised over $25 million total.
The duo did say that Jellysmack’s investment includes an exclusive partnership where it and Fourthwall will “bring new business opportunities in e-commerce and memberships directly to Jellysmack’s roster of creators.”
“We’re delighted to have Jellysmack on board as a partner and investor,...
- 5/10/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Since launching a channel of its own in 2012, GoldieBlox has paid close attention to YouTube. The toy company has collaborated with a handful of notable creators, including Karina Garcia and Simone Giertz.
For its latest series, GoldieBlox is partnering with YouTube itself. It has teamed up with the platform’s YouTube Originals unit for The Eggventurers, an animated series that will use anthropomorphic eggs to convey scientific concepts to children.
In each episode, the titular Eggventurers use simple machines, problem-solving skills, and other scientific concepts to “crack” cases without cracking their shells. The series is aimed at preschool-age children and is designed to be light on words but big on fun. As seen in the show’s trailer, the heroic group of ova will assemble Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. With their pulleys, levers, and inclines, The Eggventurers can entertain their impressionable audience while simultaneously modeling the basic forces of physics.
For its latest series, GoldieBlox is partnering with YouTube itself. It has teamed up with the platform’s YouTube Originals unit for The Eggventurers, an animated series that will use anthropomorphic eggs to convey scientific concepts to children.
In each episode, the titular Eggventurers use simple machines, problem-solving skills, and other scientific concepts to “crack” cases without cracking their shells. The series is aimed at preschool-age children and is designed to be light on words but big on fun. As seen in the show’s trailer, the heroic group of ova will assemble Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. With their pulleys, levers, and inclines, The Eggventurers can entertain their impressionable audience while simultaneously modeling the basic forces of physics.
- 10/21/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Organizers MRC Live and Alternative Tubefilter unveiled nominees for the 2021 YouTube Streamy Awards on Wednesday. The list of noms range from up-and-comers to global stars including Bill Gates, Lil Nas X, Nick Jonas, Hailey Bieber, Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith.
Winners will be announced in December during a livestreamed ceremony. Additional creator appearances and show details are to come.
This year’s top nominees include MrBeast (with seven nominations) along with Emma Chamberlain, true crime and makeup maven Bailey Sarian, Bella Poarch, gaming collective FaZe Clan, comedic gamer Markiplier, and “kidfluencer” Ryan’s World. Other notable names include Addison Rae, Sunisa Lee and Dream.
The Streamy Awards honor creator excellence in online video content. More than half of this year’s nominations were first-time nominees.
Here’s the full list of noms:
Overall Awards
Creator of the Year
Addison Rae
Alexa Rivera
Avani Gregg
Bella Poarch
Brent Rivera
Charli D’Amelio...
Winners will be announced in December during a livestreamed ceremony. Additional creator appearances and show details are to come.
This year’s top nominees include MrBeast (with seven nominations) along with Emma Chamberlain, true crime and makeup maven Bailey Sarian, Bella Poarch, gaming collective FaZe Clan, comedic gamer Markiplier, and “kidfluencer” Ryan’s World. Other notable names include Addison Rae, Sunisa Lee and Dream.
The Streamy Awards honor creator excellence in online video content. More than half of this year’s nominations were first-time nominees.
Here’s the full list of noms:
Overall Awards
Creator of the Year
Addison Rae
Alexa Rivera
Avani Gregg
Bella Poarch
Brent Rivera
Charli D’Amelio...
- 10/20/2021
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the YouTube community’s most beloved science creators must forge onward in her battle against a brain tumor.
Simone Giertz, who announced that she would undergo surgery for a benign brain tumor last April and returned to her channel after a successful procedure in July, shared a somber update with her subscribers on Friday.
“It just feels like a bad movie sequel,” Giertz said. The 28-year-old explained that, during her first procedure, doctors didn't remove portions of the tumor -- which she nicknamed Brian -- because it was located in areas that were too difficult to operate on. While Giertz knew there was a chance that the mass might require further attention down the line, “The line in ‘down the line’ was a little bit shorter than I had anticipated," she says (see below), "because it’s only been eight months."
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Simone Giertz, who announced that she would undergo surgery for a benign brain tumor last April and returned to her channel after a successful procedure in July, shared a somber update with her subscribers on Friday.
“It just feels like a bad movie sequel,” Giertz said. The 28-year-old explained that, during her first procedure, doctors didn't remove portions of the tumor -- which she nicknamed Brian -- because it was located in areas that were too difficult to operate on. While Giertz knew there was a chance that the mass might require further attention down the line, “The line in ‘down the line’ was a little bit shorter than I had anticipated," she says (see below), "because it’s only been eight months."
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- 1/22/2019
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
VidCon has added a bevy of bellwether 'Featured Creators' for its 10th annual gathering to be held this summer in Anaheim, Calif.
The Viacom-owned convention will welcome Alisha Marie, Madilyn Bailey, Rickey Thompson, Jason Nash, Smosh co-founder Ian Hecox, Simone Giertz, and Matt Steffanina. And given that VidCon plans to fete Og creators in honor of a decade spent in Anaheim, these stars will join a separate group of Founding Featured Creators -- or YouTubers who have been attending the event since its inception. The first round of Founding Featured Creators were announced in October, including Shay Carl, Ze Frank, Tay Zonday, Brittani Louise Taylor, and Julie Nunes.
Featured Creators -- and Founding Featured Creators -- attend VidCon for free, and appear across varied programming initiatives, including panel discussions, Q&As, and meet-ups.
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The Viacom-owned convention will welcome Alisha Marie, Madilyn Bailey, Rickey Thompson, Jason Nash, Smosh co-founder Ian Hecox, Simone Giertz, and Matt Steffanina. And given that VidCon plans to fete Og creators in honor of a decade spent in Anaheim, these stars will join a separate group of Founding Featured Creators -- or YouTubers who have been attending the event since its inception. The first round of Founding Featured Creators were announced in October, including Shay Carl, Ze Frank, Tay Zonday, Brittani Louise Taylor, and Julie Nunes.
Featured Creators -- and Founding Featured Creators -- attend VidCon for free, and appear across varied programming initiatives, including panel discussions, Q&As, and meet-ups.
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- 12/20/2018
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
YouTube’s reigning queen of shitty robots has returned to fans victorious. Simone Giertz, who spent six weeks in recovery after having surgery to remove a benign tumor from her brain, is officially back to vlogging -- though she cautioned viewers in her newest video that she may still need to take it easy despite wanting to return to a normal video schedule.
“Bottom line is, I’m fine, surgery went really well, I can see out of both my eyes, and my brain seems to be working just as fine — or as poorly — as it was before,” Giertz said in the video.
Giertzalso shared a little more info about her diagnosis and treatment, including the fact that the surgery to remove her Grade 1 meningioma, which was sitting above her right eye, cost $232,736, and that she now has titanium mesh inside her skull — as well as a pretty wicked scar...
“Bottom line is, I’m fine, surgery went really well, I can see out of both my eyes, and my brain seems to be working just as fine — or as poorly — as it was before,” Giertz said in the video.
Giertzalso shared a little more info about her diagnosis and treatment, including the fact that the surgery to remove her Grade 1 meningioma, which was sitting above her right eye, cost $232,736, and that she now has titanium mesh inside her skull — as well as a pretty wicked scar...
- 7/17/2018
- by James Loke Hale
- Tubefilter.com
The so-called "queen of shitty robots" is on the mend. Simone Giertz, whose engineering and robotics videos have brought more than 1.1 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, shared a photo of her brand-new scar after undergoing successful surgery to remove a noncancerous tumor on her brain.
Giertz announced in late April that she would need surgery to remove the tumor, which had been sitting atop her right eye for months. In keeping with her sense of humor, she named her tumor Brian and slipped him an eviction notice via Twitter one week before her scheduled operation.
After posting a vlog in which she informed her viewers that she was going into surgery, Giertz emerged safely hours later. She now has the above scar to show for her ordeal. It's a wound that puts her in a rare club on YouTube; Charles Trippy, who once recording his own brain surgery amid a daily vlogging streak,...
Giertz announced in late April that she would need surgery to remove the tumor, which had been sitting atop her right eye for months. In keeping with her sense of humor, she named her tumor Brian and slipped him an eviction notice via Twitter one week before her scheduled operation.
After posting a vlog in which she informed her viewers that she was going into surgery, Giertz emerged safely hours later. She now has the above scar to show for her ordeal. It's a wound that puts her in a rare club on YouTube; Charles Trippy, who once recording his own brain surgery amid a daily vlogging streak,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
The queen of shitty robots is dealing with a shitty situation of her own. Simone Giertz, known for creating contraptions that tend to fail in hilarious fashion, announced on her YouTube channel that she will have surgery to remove a benign tumor on her brain.
Giertz, 27, told her fans that she went to get an Mri scan after experiencing pain in her right eye. The procedure revealed a "pretty substantial brain tumor," which will be operated on in late May. Though Giertz noted that growth is unlikely to be fatal, she rattled off a list of scary side effects that could result from the operation, including partial facial paralysis and loss of vision in her right eye.
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Giertz, 27, told her fans that she went to get an Mri scan after experiencing pain in her right eye. The procedure revealed a "pretty substantial brain tumor," which will be operated on in late May. Though Giertz noted that growth is unlikely to be fatal, she rattled off a list of scary side effects that could result from the operation, including partial facial paralysis and loss of vision in her right eye.
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- 5/1/2018
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Simone Giertz, a popular YouTuber with nearly 1 million subscribers who specializes in building robots, said in a video Monday that she has been diagnosed with a substantial brain tumor that will require surgery.
In the video, she said she has had a swollen right eyelid for about a year. After feeling pain in her eye recently, she had an Mri scan last week — which revealed a tumor about the size of a golf ball. “I don’t even like golf, but I do like my brain, a lot,” she said in the video, with her trademark deadpan humor.
Giertz said she will need to undergo extensive brain surgery, which is scheduled for the end of May. “The good news is that I’m probably not dying,” she said. According to Giertz, the tumor appears benign but said that her full prognosis won’t be known until after her operation. She...
In the video, she said she has had a swollen right eyelid for about a year. After feeling pain in her eye recently, she had an Mri scan last week — which revealed a tumor about the size of a golf ball. “I don’t even like golf, but I do like my brain, a lot,” she said in the video, with her trademark deadpan humor.
Giertz said she will need to undergo extensive brain surgery, which is scheduled for the end of May. “The good news is that I’m probably not dying,” she said. According to Giertz, the tumor appears benign but said that her full prognosis won’t be known until after her operation. She...
- 4/30/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
To promote the second season of Westworld, which bows this Sunday on HBO, one of YouTube’s most beloved inventors of slipshod robots, Simone Giertz, has teamed with digital studio Portal A for a hilarious branded outing.
In the video, Giertz helms an animatronic version of herself from scratch -- in the vein of the astonishingly lifelike robots that populate the fantasy theme park in which the show is set -- and auditions to become a cast member. Giertz's resemblance to the finished bot, which she names Sim Two, isn’t exactly uncanny, though it does have working limbs and can recite the show's poetic dialogue in Giertz’s voice, with her signature brand of humor.
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In the video, Giertz helms an animatronic version of herself from scratch -- in the vein of the astonishingly lifelike robots that populate the fantasy theme park in which the show is set -- and auditions to become a cast member. Giertz's resemblance to the finished bot, which she names Sim Two, isn’t exactly uncanny, though it does have working limbs and can recite the show's poetic dialogue in Giertz’s voice, with her signature brand of humor.
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- 4/20/2018
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
The idea behind the Local Voices ad campaign is to capture the concerns that everyday Americans have about presidential hopeful Donald Trump in unscripted, personal commentaries that later air as one-minute ads in the same swing state communities where they were filmed. The key is to find voices who belong to community leaders who aren’t normal Hillary Clinton supporters, may they be conservatives or generally apolitical figures.
Read More about Local Voices: How Filmmakers Are Making a Difference in Swing States
In swing states where the voters have been confronted with constant barrage of political ads, the other key ingredient is authenticity, so they are not dismissed as just another manufactured political message.
To accomplish this, founder Lee Hirsch (“Bully”) turned to fellow documentary filmmakers and recruited some of the top filmmakers working in nonfiction, including Amir Bar-Lev (“Happy Valley, “The Tillman Story”), Amy Berg (“West of Memphis”), Marshall Curry (“Street Fight,...
Read More about Local Voices: How Filmmakers Are Making a Difference in Swing States
In swing states where the voters have been confronted with constant barrage of political ads, the other key ingredient is authenticity, so they are not dismissed as just another manufactured political message.
To accomplish this, founder Lee Hirsch (“Bully”) turned to fellow documentary filmmakers and recruited some of the top filmmakers working in nonfiction, including Amir Bar-Lev (“Happy Valley, “The Tillman Story”), Amy Berg (“West of Memphis”), Marshall Curry (“Street Fight,...
- 11/7/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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