Harry Hawk talks with early YouTube phenom Adam Schleichkorn. Adam has had several YouTube channels over the years (with a combined more than 54 Million views) and was one of the first YouTubers to be interviewed on national TV. Today Adam is the Video Project Manager at Driven Local.
Adam’s current channel, isthishowyougoviral, was started in May 2012 and has 5,470 subscribers and more than 4.8 Million views at the time this blog is being written. HiddenTrackTV2 has 18k subscribers and 34.7 Million views, HiddenTrack12 has 5.4k subscribers and 12.5 Million views. AwesomeAnimals has 1.6k subscribers and 1.7 Million views.
Adam started youTubing while in graduate school and credits Patrick J. Aievoli, who is the Director of the Interactive Multimedia Arts Program at LIU for convincing him to capitalize on his early YouTube ‘fame.”