Natalie Tran

Natalie Tran
"communitychannel" redirects here. For other uses, see Community channel.
Natalie Tran

Tran at the 2010 Entertainment Gathering (EG) convention in Monterey, California
Born Natalie Tyler Tran
24 July 1986 (1986-07-24) (age 25)[1]
Sydney, Australia
Nationality Australian
Years active 2006-present
Known for Sketch comedy, vlogging
Internet information
Web alias(es) communitychannel
Web hosting service(s) YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter
Website
natalietran.me

Natalie Tyler Tran (born 24 July 1986) is a video blogger on YouTube from Sydney, Australia, using the nickname communitychannel.[2] She is the most subscribed Australian YouTuber.

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Biography

Tran's mother and father, both refugees who left Vietnam to go to Australia in 1981, were originally a lawyer and literature professor respectively, but became a postal worker and a public school teacher in Australia. Tran grew up in Sydney and, after high school, she studied teaching for two years before switching to a digital media program at the University of New South Wales.[3][4]

Popularity

As of March 2011, Tran has 273 videos available on her YouTube channel and is the most-subscribed user of all time in Australia,[5] the 26th most subscribed of all time on YouTube,[6] and the 7th-most subscribed director worldwide.[7] She also manages the 58th most viewed channel on YouTube of all time.[8] Tran was the first runner up in Michael Buckley's Miss YouTube contest.[9] She created her first video on 25 September 2006.[10]

Tran has more than 920,000 subscribers and more than 350 million views.[11] This popularity has led to media coverage and appearances in The Sydney Morning Herald,[4] Western Australia Today,[12] B&T Magazine,[13] Venus Zine.[14] Der Spiegel,[15] Báo Viêt Luận Online,[16] Việt Tribune,[17] VnExpress,[18] Triple J,[19] and the Hot30 Countdown.[20] Her defence of Vegemite[21] in response to a YouTube video by Ben Going[22] was featured on the Australian television programme A Current Affair on February 2007, as part of the Vegemite wars segment. Tran's most viewed video[23] had over 20 million views in March 2010[24] and the number of views has grown significantly since then.

Tran has been recognized for her creative work and popularity on the Internet in various ways. She was one of the Australian YouTube celebrities invited to talk about the site at the launch of YouTube Australia in 2007.[25] She is presently enlisted by The Sydney Morning Herald as a contributor and Real World Correspondent to their technology vlog Digital Life,[26] complementing main presenter and journalist Séamus Byrne. Although her original skits are specifically written and created for Digital Life, they are produced almost entirely in the same manner and style as her YouTube material. Tran was a presenter at "Creative Sydney" in May 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art.[27][28] Tran was nominated for "Best YouTube Channel or Personality" and "Funniest YouTube Channel" by Mashable in their 2009 Open Web Awards.[29] Tran was one of the presenters at the 2010 Entertainment Gathering (EG) convention in Monterey, California.[30] In 2010, Tran was a presenter at ideaCity in Toronto, Canada.[31][32] In 2010, the analytics firm TubeMogul placed Tran at #10 on their list of top ten earners from YouTube advertising. According to TubeMogul, Tran earned $101,000 and had 138,871,829 views.[2] Based on data released by YouTube, Tran's YouTube channel had more views in one week in March 2011 than many of the most popular television shows on Australian television.[33] In November 2010, Tran embarked on a global odyssey sponsored by Lonely Planet.[34] Tran is also a Sydney correspondent for The Project's Metro Whip Around segment. In 2011, she appeared as a guest on an episode of the third series of Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation.

Videos

Tran's videos typically involve her making monologues in front of a camera, interrupted by skits acted out by herself. Common themes include observational and self-deprecating humour, as well as stream-of-consciousness commentary on social dilemmas, such as how much money to spend on gifts for friends[35] and appropriate telephone etiquette.[36] Examples of themes for skits include mocking the strange and cliched practices of advertisers[37] and a practical joke by an ultrasound technician.[38] Occasionally, Tran will also make parodies of other popular YouTube videos, such as her parody of "How to Fake a Six-pack", incidentally her most-viewed video.[39] More serious topics have included Tran's responses to the February 2009 Victorian bushfires.[40]

Tran usually ends her videos with a segment referred to as "Porno Music/Comment Time", where she posts and responds to comments on her previous videos, over a melody stereotypically used in pornographic films.

In addition to her regular videos, Tran also made travel videos for Lonely Planet. These videos are based on her experiences at travel destinations around the world and were made in Tran's characteristic humorous style.[34]

In a July 2011 interview with Forbes, Tran stated that, while uncertain about her future, she has contemplated the possibility of no longer making videos and pursuing writing instead.[41]

References

  1. ^ communitychannel (2 July 2007). "getting in shape". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZRk14bbxuE. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  2. ^ a b Firth, Niall (29 August 2010). "Revealed: the YouTube rich list of the new stars making a fortune from their bedrooms". Daily Mail/Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1306329/Revealed-YouTube-rich-list.html. Retrieved 17 October 2010. 
  3. ^ "Riding the Tube". The Age. 14 November 2010. http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/riding-the-tube-20101113-17rzy.html. Retrieved 14 November 2010. 
  4. ^ a b Moses, Asher (4 February 2009). "How Natalie became Australia's queen of YouTube". Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/02/04/1233423281416.html. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  5. ^ communitychannel. "All Channels, Most Subscribed, All Time". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/channels?p=1&s=ms&gl=AU&t=a&g=0. Retrieved 18 March 2011. 
  6. ^ communitychannel. "All Channels, Most Subscribed, All Time". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/channels?s=ms&gl=US&t=a&g=0. Retrieved 13 January 2011. 
  7. ^ communitychannel. "Directors, Most Subscribed, All Time". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/channels?s=ms&gl=US&t=a&g=3. Retrieved 13 January 2011. 
  8. ^ communitychannel. "All Channels, Most Viewed, All Time". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/channels?s=mv&t=a&g=0&c=0&to=0&nb=0&p=2. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  9. ^ What the Buck (22 April 2009). "Miss YouTube 2009!". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XI7PF7xotY. 
  10. ^ communitychannel (25 September 2006). "quiz". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k8h1_A9tPw. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  11. ^ communitychannel (12 September 2006). "communitychannel's Channel". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel. Retrieved 18 March 2010. 
  12. ^ Moses, Asher (4 February 2009). "Natalie Tran - Australia's queen of YouTube". WAtoday. http://www.watoday.com.au/technology/natalie-tran--australias-queen-of-youtube-20090204-7xhe.html. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  13. ^ Moses, Asher (4 March 2009). "Social Media and YouTube". B&T (Reed Business Information). http://www.bandt.com.au/news/ce/0c05edce.asp. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  14. ^ Van Deven, Mandy (13 February 2009). "If Flight of the Conchords were an Australian woman...". Venus Zine. http://www.venuszine.com/articles/art_and_culture/culture/5170/If_Flight_of_the_Conchords_were_an_Australian_woman. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  15. ^ Patalong, Frank (9 February 2009). "Top-Girls auf YouTube: Festival der schönen Unbekannten" (in German). Der Spiegel. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,605708-3,00.html. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  16. ^ "“Nữ Hoàng Úc” gốc Việt". 6 February 2009. http://vietluanonline.com/060209/tintuc060209.html. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  17. ^ "Natalie Trần: Nữ hoàng Youtube Úc Đại lợi". 20 February 2009. http://www.viettribune.com/vt/index.php?id=3071. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  18. ^ "Nữ sinh gốc Việt và kho video thu hút 65 triệu người xem". 22 February 2009. http://www.vnexpress.net/GL/Vi-tinh/2009/02/3BA0B8A7/. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  19. ^ Cannane, Steve (22 September 2008). "My Face— Will you end up regretting what you reveal about yourself online?". ABC Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hackhalfhour/programs/s2359534.htm. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  20. ^ Hot30 Countdown. "Natalie Tran Videos - Hot30 Countdown". Austereo. http://2dayfm.com.au/shows/hot30/galleries/nat-tran-tv. Retrieved 28 March 2010. 
  21. ^ communitychannel (30 January 2007). "Re: The Australians are fooling us". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OUVT5zaBM. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  22. ^ boh3m3 (27 January 2007). "The Australians are Fooling Us All!". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdDzITytrjc. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  23. ^ communitychannel (10 May 2008). "How to fake a six pack (Re: How to Fake Abs). *SARCASM*". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijgfBwq_vkM. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  24. ^ Stack, Brittany (21 March 2010). "Meet YouTube's 224 million girl, Natalie Tran". DailyTelegraph. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/meet-youtubes-224-million-girl/story-e6frewt0-1225843233245. 
  25. ^ Jansen, Dave (24 October 2007). "In Pictures: YouTube down under". Australian PC World. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/197512/pictures_youtube_down_under?img=1397. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  26. ^ "Digital Life". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://media.smh.com.au/technology/digital-life/. Retrieved 26 April 2009. 
  27. ^ "Vivid Sydney: Creative Sydney 2009 Program Details". MiSociety. http://misociety.com.au/creative-sydney-2009-program-detials. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  28. ^ creativesydney (27 May 2009). "Creative Sydney: Wednesday 27th May 2009". Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativesydney/3572292942/. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  29. ^ Sharon Feder. "500 Leading Nominees in Mashables's #openwebawards". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2009/11/13/open-web-awards-leading-nominees/. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  30. ^ EG 2010 Presenters
  31. ^ ideaCity (2010). "Natalie Tyler Tran". Moses Znaimer's ideaCity 2010: Ideas Change the World. ideaCity. http://www.ideacityonline.com/presenters/natalie-tyler-tran. Retrieved 24 June 2010. 
  32. ^ communitychannel (23 June 2010). "Nat's talk at Ideacity and audition for Toy Story 3". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtidJ-WlONc. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  33. ^ Tim Burrowes (17 March 2011). "Natalie Tran: Bigger than free TV". mUmBRELLA. http://mumbrella.com.au/natalie-tran-bigger-than-free-tv-41924. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 
  34. ^ a b Natalie Tran (2010). "Natalie Tran's Travel Videos & Blog on Lonely Planet". Lonely Planet. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/blog/natalietran/. Retrieved 22 November 2010. 
  35. ^ communitychannel (6 March 2009). "If you're good mates, why not?". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEahVCTxA4. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  36. ^ communitychannel (23 February 2009). "you didn't say goodbye". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwfIv5lZU5Y. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  37. ^ communitychannel (23 February 2009). "you didn't say goodbye". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwfIv5lZU5Y. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  38. ^ communitychannel (21 April 2010). "Amazing Results". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4onbEl-smpo. Retrieved 18 March 2011. 
  39. ^ communitychannel (10 May 2008). "Easter Bunny breakdown with santa and the tooth fairy". How to fake a six pack (Re: How to Fake Abs).. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijgfBwq_vkM. Retrieved 18 March 2011. 
  40. ^ communitychannel (11 February 2009). "I like, I like, I like". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXn3ORQ5Hw8. Retrieved 24 July 2010. 
  41. ^ Michael Humphrey (5 July 2011). "Natalie Tran: Down Under's Top YouTuber Considers Her Next Move". Forbes. http://blogs.forbes.com/michaelhumphrey/2011/07/05/natalie-tran-down-unders-top-youtuber-considers-her-next-move/. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 

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Achievements
Preceded by
makemebad35		 Most Subscribed on YouTube
Ranked 22nd as of 2010		 Succeeded by
JonasBrothersMusic
Preceded by
makemebad35		 Most Subscribed Director on YouTube
Ranked 6th as of 2010		 Succeeded by
barelypolitical

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