AFV Celebrates 25 Years, Companions with YouTube Stars

One in every of America’s most engrained pop-tradition tv exhibits is about to rejoice a milestone and increase even additional to hook a rising millennial viewers.

Seemingly the beginning of consumer-generated content material earlier than there was such a factor, America’s Funniest Residence Movies will have fun its twenty fifth anniversary this yr by partnering with a few of Gen Y’s hottest YouTube stars because it premieres for a brand new season on Oct. 5.

To have fun the milestone, the present will now companion with “ShayFV,” a brand new, weekly 17-episode, 5-minute clip present starring YouTube character Shay “Shay Carl” Butler, together with a number of different YouTube stars.

Since beginning in 1989, the AFV has generated greater than 1 million clip submissions and awarded $thirteen million in prize cash thus far.

“As we embark on this milestone twenty fifth yr of tv, I’m continually in awe of the large progress of the viral video class,” AFV creator Vin Di Bona stated in a press release. “I by no means might have imagined, once I first pitched this concept in 1989, that utilizing viewer-generated content material to entertain households would grow to be the phenomenon it’s at the moment.”

The brand new initiative between Vin Di Bona Productions (producers of AFV) and Maker Studios permits Maker to handle AFV’s YouTube channels whereas establishing new income streams. Maker, an entirely-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Firm, produces and distributes content material in partnership with fifty five,000 creators, garnering 9 billion month-to-month views and attracting greater than 550 million loyal subscribers worldwide.

“America’s Funniest House Movies was really groundbreaking when it first got here to tv 25 years in the past,” stated Chris M. Williams, Maker Studios’ chief viewers officer. “It has turn out to be half of popular culture vernacular and has, by way of its premise, made viral movies an integral a part of our every day lives. We’re thrilled to be working with Vin and his workforce to supply the sort of memorable content material that took AFV to the place it’s in the present day and sit up for increasing the profiles of a few of our most beloved digital expertise with the assistance of AFV‘s passionate tv viewers.”

Since forging the cope with Maker, AFV‘s channels, which function unique clips, basic fan favorites and montages, have grown considerably and generate greater than 20 million month-to-month views. Along with “ShayFV,” Vin Di Bona Productions in affiliation with Maker will create unique and in-present alternatives for different digital expertise who interact millennial audiences.

“ShayFV” is about to premiere on Maker.television, Maker’s proprietary net platform, on Sunday, October 19. The collection may also be obtainable on the Shaytards YouTube channel, which presently has 2.four million subscribers and options Shay Carl and his household’s every day adventures.

Different stars who will probably be becoming a member of the AFV household embrace comedians Jason Horton, Ceciley Jenkins and Ed Bassmaster, who will reenact a few of the present’s most iconic and humorous clips in “AFV Do Overs,” airing one week earlier than the present premiere on the AFV YouTube channel.

Different expertise similar to Sam Macaroni, Barely Political, Edward Vilderama, Very Good Listeners’ Brian Morgan and Brooke “Dodger” Lawson will make in-present appearances all through the twenty fifth anniversary season. They may also present publish present commentary and interviews that may seem on AFV‘s official channel and the expertise’s respective YouTube channels.

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