Get to Hollywood through YouTube!

Seeing a news report about someone being discovered on YouTube and getting into a movie, and another one getting into a TV show, are what convinced me to give YouTube a shot for my own acting career (and come up with the $1000 YouTube Experiment to get attention and break through the crowd).

Now those kinds of stories are only getting bigger and better for YouTubers at the top.  You might have heard about 17-year-old Lucas Cruishank, who portrays a fictional character called Fred Figglehorn on a series of YouTube videos that have become a viral hit to kids and tweens. Well, Cruishank recently starred as his famous alter ego in his own movie for Nickolodeon – not just a role in the movie, but a movie all about his YouTube character.  A pretty significant achievement.

So how did he do it? Well, he caught the attention of Nickolodeon producers by getting so many views on YouTube.  Cruishank had more regular viewers than many TV shows do.  He has over 2 million subscribers, which is a pretty incredible number of “regular” viewers.

YouTube experts believe that while unaware of it, Cruishank was hitting all the right formulas to achieve the level of success he had on YouTube. For example, in his video “Fred Goes to the Dentist,” he targets his audiences very well by doing silly things that would surely draw laughs from little kids. These included talking about “underwear”, deliberately humiliating himself by stuffing his mouth with cotton as a gag, and singing a silly love song for his love interest, Judy. His videos are all DIY too and look like a regular person did them, not some big production company. Yes, sometimes having lower budget looking stuff on YouTube can be to your benefit!

In a nutshell, it is still very possible to achieve some type of Hollywood fame through YouTube. YouTube might be filled with one-off viral hits of cute kittens and news bloopers, but it’s also a great breeding ground for mainstream entertainment, and the more popular online video gets in general, the more we’ll start to see YouTubers on TV and in the movies.

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