SourceFed^[1] is a secondary channel launched by Philip DeFranco,^[2][3][4] produced by James Haffner^[5] on January 23, 2012,^[6] as part of YouTube's $100 million dollar original channel initiative.^{[7][8][9][10]} SourceFed is a channel which presents five news related videos daily from Monday to Thursday.^[11] The SourceFed channel also has three additional shows, Curb Cash, One On One, and a movie club style show dubbed The New Movie Thing Show. As of August 1, 2012 SourceFed has earned more than 500k subscribers and 157 million video views.^[12] Bloopers and behind the scenes videos, dubbed "DeFranco Inc.: Behind the Scenes" are periodically uploaded on Saturdays and Sundays. The SourceFed team consists of four hosts, three editors and one producer, with DeFranco looking for another host to push content for the weekends. DeFranco also stated that he wants to create the next news network.^[13][14][15] On May 26, 2012 the SourceFed YouTube channel reached the 100 million video view milestone.^[8][16][17] Deadline Hollywood has tracked the weekly views of all the original premium channels on YouTube since May 17, 2012 and according to Deadline, SourceFed was the #1 original channel on YouTube for five consecutive weeks and has remained one of the top three original channels for ten consecutive weeks. SourceFed earns over 20 million monthly views and has a Slate Score of 736.^[18] DeFranco has stated, in an interview with Forbes, that SourceFed was an idea he had been playing around with for a few months and was intended to be an evolution of his own channel. DeFranco added, "I originally wanted to turn my single daily show into several daily segments, but when we tested it with my audience there was massive confusion. Afterwards I realized I would need to create a new property to not alienate my audience and to grow with and beyond it."^[11]

20 Minutes or Less[link]

20 Minutes or Less is a new show where hosts, Lee Newton, Elliott Morgan, Joe Bereta, and Steve Zaragoza, present five news stories daily from Monday to Thursday covering a variety of topics. DeFranco appeared in the first story of the show's first two weeks, excluding February 1 only to appear again on a March 12, 2012 video about the Mass Effect 3 ending. 20 Minutes or Less was also the first show to launch on SourceFed.^[19] On Fridays, the main hosts of 20 Minutes Or Less upload "Comment Commentary" which is where Morgan, Newton and Bereta read off comments from their videos and show a short slideshow of fan-submitted pictures and art. A story that SourceFed covered on 20 Minutes Or Less has been featured on Huffington Post.^[20] In an interview with Tubefilter, DeFranco stated that 20 Minutes or Less is the staple show of SourceFed.^[6] On June 13 and 14, 2012 the YouTube uploading system did not allow two of the five stories covered by 20 Minutes or Less to go up onto the website. SourceFed addressed the issue by uploading the two stories from June 13 onto an official Tumblr account, leaving those two stories to be the only ones never uploaded onto YouTube. The two stories from June 14 were later uploaded the following day onto YouTube, making them the first 20 Minutes or Less stories to be covered on a Friday. On July 31, 2012, six stories were uploaded by 20 Minutes or Less, a first in SourceFed history. A story covered on 20 Minutes or Less detailing a scientific study showing dogs may be better for humans and their health than cats was featured on a Gather.com news article.^[21] Gather.com later published another news article featuring 20 Minutes or Less' video covering a story on exploding iPhones.^[22] The four hosts of 20 Minutes or Less, along with DeFranco, had a Q&A panel^[11] and performed at VidCon 2012.^[23]

Main hosts:

• Lee Newton
• Elliott Morgan
• Joe Bereta
• Steve Zaragoza

Temporary/Fill-in hosts:

• Philip DeFranco
• Keith Jordan
• Meg Turney
• Trisha Hershberger

Guest hosts:

• Harley Morenstein
• George Watsky
• The Gregory Brothers

2012 Maxim Hot 100[link]

On February 6 and April 3, 2012 SourceFed crashed the Maxim Hot 100 voting website.^[24] The cause of the crashes were due to Bereta and Morgan telling their audience through 20 Minutes Or Less to vote for Lee Newton as a write-in candidate. Maxim has since came out with an article noting that Newton has "list potential".^[25] In May 2012, it was announced the Lee Newton placed 57th on the 2012 Maxim Hot 100 list.^[26][27][28]

Popular Stories Covered[link]

SourceFed's most popular video and 20 Minutes or Less' most popular story covered was the release and announcement of Maxim's 2012 Hot 100. The list featured, 20 Minutes or Less co-host, Lee Newton. Since the upload of the story on May 21, 2012, the video has accumulated over 3.6 million views as of July 5, 2012. Prior to the upload of the Maxim Hot 100 new story, the most viewed story from 20 Minutes or Less featured the announcement of AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2012. As of July 5, 2012 the story has been viewed over 1.4 million times since its upload on January 31, 2012. The first story ever covered by 20 Minutes or Less, uploaded on January 23, 2012, remains one of the ten most popular stories covered by the news source. The story that was covered featured a new study showing that homosexual parents are more likely to be better at raising a child than heterosexual parents. As of July 5, 2012 the story has been viewed over half a million times.

Curb Cash[link]

Curb Cash, stylized as "Curb Ca$h", is an additional show on SourceFed which is a type of game show where host Kevin Brueck goes out on the street and asks random people questions about recent popular culture where if they get the question correct they get money. The audience are able to interact through YouTube annotations. If the person clicks the correct answer they are led to the next question however if they get the incorrect answer they will be presented a video dubbed "Kevin Fail" which is where Brueck has to suffer a punishment. Curb Cash finished its first season on March 31, 2012 after the tenth episode.

One on One[link]

One On One is an interview show where a member of SourceFed interviews a random person. The list of people who have been interviewed so far are Justine Ezarik, Kevin Pereira, Jenna Marbles^[29], Harley Morenstein, Alice Eve, George Watsky, Dane Boedigheimer,^[30] Hank Green, Gillian Jacobs, Craig Benzine, and Felicia Day.

The New Movie Thing Show[link]

The New Movie Thing Show, launched by SourceFed on May 11, 2012, is where two SourceFed hosts review a movie and subsequently follow their review with fan-submitted reviews of the same movie, similar to a book club, or in this case a movie club. The first episode of movie club featured DeFranco and Steve Zaragoza reviewing Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. The same day Zaragoza, this time joined by Joe Bereta reviewed The Human Centipede 2. On June 9, 2012, the film Bronson was reviewed. No other episode of The New Movie Thing Show has been uploaded or announced as of August 1, 2012.

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