Philip may refer to:

• Philip (name)

Philip, Phillip, Phil, Philippe, Felipe, Philippus, etc. may also refer to:

Kings of Macedon[link]

• Philip I of Macedon
• Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great
• Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great
• Philip IV of Macedon
• Philip V of Macedon

Other Philips of antiquity[link]

• Philippus of Croton (~6th c.BC) Olympic victor and legendary hero
• Philip of Opus, one of Plato's students
• Philip (son of Antipater), general of Alexander the Great
• Philip (son of Machatas) builder of Alexandria on the Indus
• Philip, brother of Lysimachus and youngest son of Agathocles of Pella
• Philip (son of Alcimachus of Apollonia), son of Alcimachus of Apollonia and nephew of Lysimachus
• Philip (son of Lysimachus), one of the sons of Lysimachus from his wife Arsinoe II
• Philip (first husband of Berenice I of Egypt), son of Amyntas and first husband of Berenice I
• Philip (satrap), Greek satrap of Sogdiana and governor of Parthia
• Philip I Philadelphus, ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom
• Philip II Philoromaeus, last ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom
• Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 56 BC), a Roman statesman
• Herod II, aka Herod Philip I, son of Herod the Great and husband of Herodias
• Philip the Tetrarch (aka Herod Philip II, son of Herod the Great and ruler of Ituraea and Trachonitis
• Philippus of Thessalonica, epigrammatic Greek poet and compiler of an Anthology
• Philip the Arab, Roman emperor from 244 to 249
• Philip of Side, Byzantine historian of the early Christian church
• Philippikos Bardanes, Byzantine Emperor
• Antipope Philip
• Philip the Apostle from the Bible
• Philip the Evangelist from the Bible

Kings of France and Navarre[link]

• Philip I of France
• Philip II of France
• Philip III of France, "the Bold"
• Philip III of Navarre
• Philip IV of France, "the Fair"; also known as Philip I of Navarre
• Philip V of France, "the Tall"; also known as Philip II of Navarre
• Philip VI of France, "the Fortunate"

Kings of Castile, Portugal, & Spain[link]

• Philip I of Castile, "the Handsome"; also known as Philip IV, Duke of Burgundy
• Philip II of Spain, also known as Philip I of Portugal and Philip V of Burgundy
• Philip III of Spain, also known as Philip II of Portugal and Philip VI of Burgundy
• Philip IV of Spain, also known as Philip III of Portugal and Philip VII of Burgundy
• Philip V of Spain

King of Sweden[link]

• Philip of Sweden

Dukes of Burgundy[link]

• Philip I, Duke of Burgundy
• Philip the Bold, also known as Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
• Philip the Good, also known as Philip III, Duke of Burgundy

Counts and Dukes of Savoy[link]

• Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207–1285)
• Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438–1497)

Other rulers and royalty[link]

• Philip of Courtenay, titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople
• Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and Duke of Swabia
• Philip of Milly, seventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• Philip I, Count of Flanders
• Philip of Artois (1269–1298), heir to the countship
• Philip of Artois, Count of Eu
• Philip I, Prince of Taranto
• Philip II, Prince of Taranto
• Philip II, Count of Auvergne
• Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham
• Philip Simonsson, claimant to the throne of Norway
• Philip, Duke of Brabant (disambiguation)
• Philip, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
• Philip, Duke of Parma
• Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse
• Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, father to Albert I of Belgium
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, prince consort of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the throne of Belgium
• Phillip, Prince of Asturias, heir to the throne of Spain
• Philip, Prince of Eulenburg, Prussian diplomat
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark)
• Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, Swedish prince
• Prince Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland, Swedish prince
• Pylyp Orlyk, Hetman of Ukraine
• Metacomet, nicknamed "King Philip", war leader of the Wampanoag in "King Philip's War"

Other notable Philips[link]

• Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author.
• Phillip Gonyea, drummer for American alternative rock band Against All Will
• Phiiliip, American musician born Philip Guichard
• Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres
• Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre
• Punxsutawney Phil, Groundhog Day groundhog
• Phillip Phillips, American Idol Season 11 winner
• Dr. Phil McGraw a psychologist with his own TV show

Fictional characters[link]

• Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, a Dilbert character
• Prince Phillip, a character from Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty
• Philip, one of the two main leads in Kamen Rider W
• Phillip of 'Terrance and Phillip', supporting characters in South Park
• Philocetes aka 'Phil' from Disney's 1997 film Hercules
• Philip Banks aka 'Uncle Phil', a character from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Phil Dunphy, a character from Modern Family
• Philip J. Fry, one of the main characters on Futurama
• Phil Mitchell, a character from the British soap opera EastEnders

Monuments and buildings[link]

• The Philippeion in Olympia
• Kozani National Airport "Filippos"
• Philippe's, a restaurant in Los Angeles

Places[link]

Algeria

• Skikda, formerly called Philippeville

Australia

• Phillip, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra

Belgium

• Philippeville

Bulgaria

• Plovdiv, formerly called Philippopolis

Syria

• Philippopolis

Canada

• Philips Harbour, Nova Scotia

Greece

• Philippi
• Filippiada
• Filippos (Echinades)

Sweden

• Filipstad

United States

• Phil, Kentucky
• Philipp, Mississippi
• Philippi, West Virginia

Other[link]

• The Phil, informal name for the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin

See also[link]

• "Pip" (South Park), an episode of Southpark
• Philipson, a surname
• Felipe
• Filipe (disambiguation)
• Filippo
• Philippic
• Philippines
• Epistle to the Philippians
• Philippa
• Phillip Island (disambiguation)

References[link]

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Phillip LaDon Phillips, Jr. (born September 20, 1990) is an American singer-songwriter from Leesburg, Georgia, and the winner of the eleventh season of American Idol.^[1][2][3]

Early life[link]

Phillips was born in Leesburg, Georgia, the son of Sheryl (née LaDon) and Phillip Phillips, Sr.^[4][5] He grew up in Sasser and Leesburg, and attended Lee County High School.^[2] He graduated from Albany Technical College with a major in Industrial Systems Technology, but missed the graduation ceremony due to his obligations to American Idol.^[6] Prior to appearing on American Idol, he worked at his family's pawn shop.

Phillips said his favorite singer is Jonny Lang, and other favorites include John Butler, Dave Matthews and Damien Rice.^[7] He described his music as "jazz, rock alternative sound".^[8] Phillips was mentored by long time friend and brother-in-law Benjamin Neil.

[edit] American Idol

Overview[link]

Phillips auditioned in Savannah, Georgia.^[9] He sang "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder.^[9][10] The judges then asked him to perform a second song with his guitar, and he performed Michael Jackson's "Thriller."^[9][10] He advanced to the Hollywood rounds,^[9] and later to the Las Vegas round.^[11]

On February 23, 2012, Phillips was chosen as one of the Top 25 semi-finalists.^[12] After the Top 13 performance night, Phillips was taken to a doctor for possible kidney stones.^[13][14] Phillips became the winner on the finale of American Idol on May 23, 2012, against Jessica Sanchez after a record-breaking total of 132 million votes were cast.^[1] His coronation song "Home" was released after his performance.

Performances/results[link]

• ^Note 1 Due to the judges using their one save on Jessica Sanchez, the Top 7 remained intact for another week.
• ^Note 2 "Home" had previously been performed by Holden, a co-writer of the song; it had not appeared on any of his recordings.

Discography[link]

Digital albums[link]

Other albums[link]

• American Idol: Season Finale #56 CAN^[17]

Singles[link]

Other charted songs[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• phillipphillips.com Official Site
• pphillipsonline.com Phillip Phillips Online Fan Club
• Phillip Phillips on American Idol

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Sir Philip Green
Green in 2007
Born	(1952-03-15) 15 March 1952 (age 60) Croydon, London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Businessman
Years active	1967–present
Net worth	£3.3 bilion (2012)[1]
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Tina Green
Children	Chloe, Joshua, & Brandon

Sir Philip Green (born 15 March 1952) is a British businessman. Green began as a businessman at the age of 15. The first and last quoted company Green took lead of was "Amber Day", from which he stepped down as CEO and Chairman in 1992. Since then he has had links to a range of British companies; including a hostile bid for Marks and Spencer and the management of the Arcadia Group, both alongside or supporting his wife. He has been involved in a range of controversies related to both his personal and business life.

Biography[link]

Philip Green was born on 15 March 1952 in Croydon, in South London,^[2] and has a sister, Elizabeth, five years his senior. His family moved to Hampstead Garden Suburb, a middle-class enclave in north London, and at the age of nine he was sent to the now-closed Jewish boarding school Carmel College in Oxfordshire. When his father died of a heart attack, Philip was in line to inherit the family business at the age of twelve. After leaving boarding school at 15, he worked for a shoe importer before travelling to the US, Europe and the Far East. It was on his return that he set up his first business with a £20,000 loan, importing jeans from the Far East to sell on to retailers in London.

In 1979, Green bought up the entire stock of ten designer label clothes sellers who had gone into receivership for extremely low prices. He then had the newly bought clothes sent to the dry cleaners, got them put on hangers, wrapped them in polythene to make them look new, and then bought a place to sell them to the public.^[3]

Amber Day[link]

In 1988, he became Chairman and Chief Executive of a quoted company called "Amber Day", a discount retailer. The shares performed well, but then suffered a series of profit downgrades and in 1992 he resigned when the company failed to meet its profit forecast.^[4] He has not led a quoted company since, instead working with other entrepreneurs, including Tom Hunter (a sports shoe millionaire and one of the richest men in Scotland) and the Barclay brothers, to help fund his entrepreneurship.^{[citation needed]}

1990s[link]

In the early 1990s Green bought the department store chain Owen Owen which at the time had about 12 branches trading under the Owen Owen and Lewis's brand names. During his ownership, most of these department stores were sold to other operators including Debenhams and Allders or were closed leaving only the Liverpool branch trading as Lewis's. In 2004 this remaining store was sold off.

In 1995 he linked with Tom Hunter to buy sports retailer Olympus as part of a merger. The price was £1, plus the assumption of £30 million in debt. Green and his partners sold the company three years later to JJB Sports for £550 million. Green walked away £73 million richer. That encouraged the Barclay brothers to back him in the £538m acquisition of the Sears retail chain (a different Sears from Sears, Roebuck and Company) in 1999. The subsequent disposal programme (including selling some of the assets, ironically, to Arcadia) raised £729m and confirmed his reputation as a man who could deliver within the retail sector.

BHS, Arcadia, Topshop[link]

Green came to public attention in 1999 when he assisted Tina Green to make a £9-billion hostile bid for Marks and Spencer (M&S). However, the leaking of the bid forced up M&S's share price. The board of M&S were also hostile to the bid and sought to block it. Eventually Green gave up and helped his wife purchase the ailing retail chain British Home Stores for £200 million. His takeover came when everyone else had dismissed the company as a failing brand and unfixable. Green put up £50 million of his own money and borrowed another £150 million to seal the deal. Green completely turned the company around and the chain is now^[when?] thought to be worth over £1.2 billion. Since Green took over, profits have tripled to over £200 million per year.^{[citation needed]}

Next, Green assisted Tina Green in the purchase the Arcadia Group, which owns well-known High Street chains such as Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Outfit, Topshop/Topman and Wallis in 2002. The company was briefly owned by Green but sold to Tina Green^[5] within 24 hours, with Philip acting as CEO.

The Arcadia Group has been profitable, and currently has pre-tax profits of around £380 million per year.

Recently^[when?] he had added the Etam UK chain to the group. Green paid £850 million, and repaid the £808 million he had borrowed to finance the deal in two years, a move that stunned commentators when it was announced.

When The Guardian newspaper investigated a proposed takeover of Safeway in 2003, Green responded to queries about Arcadia's accounts by insulting and swearing at the journalists.^[6]

On 20 October 2005 Green awarded Arcadia shareholders a £1.3-billion dividend.

Other activities[link]

Green is a supporter of the Fashion Retail Academy^[7] and the industry charity Retail Trust.^[8] Green was knighted on 17 June 2006.

In May 2007 after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal, Green donated £250,000 as a monetary reward for any useful public information.^[9] He also provided the McCanns with the use of his private jet to allow them to fly to Rome for a Papal visit.^[10] Green intends to increase the reward money to £1 million for the safe return of Madeleine.^{[citation needed]}

He was reportedly the BBC's first choice to front the UK franchise of The Apprentice; however during that period in 2004, he was too busy with Arcadia's attempted takeover of Marks and Spencer.^[11]

Green is a keen aficionado of the word game Scrabble, and claims to have scored 157 across two triple word boxes, although experts have argued that the word he used – "wealthism" – does not feature in any of the standard reference dictionaries.

Personal life[link]

Green is based during the week at a London hotel, spending the weekends with his South African wife and owner of Arcadia Tina Green and their children Chloe and Brandon in an apartment in Monaco.^[12]

Green counts as his friends, David and Simon Reuben, Lord Hanson, Philip Colbert, Tom Hunter, Mohamed Al-Fayed of Harrods, Bill Kenwright, Simon Cowell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Winner and the Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya.^[12]

Among Green's more extravagant items are a 208 ft/£32 million Benetti yacht Lionheart^[13] and a £20 million Gulfstream G550 private jet .^[12] For his birthday, his wife bought him a solid gold Monopoly set, featuring his very own acquisitions.^[14]

Green has been described as "flash". For his son's Bar Mitzvah in 2005, he spent £4 million on a three-day event for over 200 friends and family in the French Riviera. He also hired Andrea Bocelli and Destiny's Child to perform. For his nephew, Matt, he threw a Bar Mitzvah at Madame Tussauds, where Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and One Direction performed. Matt and Chloe shared a birthday party in December 2011, at One Mayfair, where Rihanna sang ,and many personal friends of the family attended. The star-studded bash was featured in The Sun and cost over £1 million.^[15] For his 50th birthday he flew 200 guests in a chartered Airbus A300 to a hotel in Cyprus for a three-day toga party, where they were serenaded by Tom Jones and Rod Stewart, who was reportedly paid £750,000 for a 45-minute set. For his 55th birthday he flew 100 guests 8,500 miles in two private jets from London Stansted Airport. They arrived at the exclusive Maldives resort of Four Seasons: Landaagiraavaru, an eco-spa on a private Indian Ocean island.^[16]

His business hero is the late Sir Charles Clore, who built the Sears Plc UK retail empire from next to nothing in the 1950s and 1960s.^[17]

Green is believed to be a keen caravanner, and has often been reported heading off to the west Country at weekends in his Bentley with a Sprite 15 footer in tow.

Football involvement[link]

Sir Philip Green is a big football fan and a Tottenham Hotspur supporter.^[18] In 1987 he suggested to Irving Scholar, the Spurs Chairman, that Tony Berry be appointed to the board.^[19] In 1991 he helped Terry Venables raise the last £500,000 needed to purchase shares in the club.^[19]

He was also involved in the transfers of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds United and Louis Saha from Fulham to Manchester United.^[19]

He is heavily involved with Everton Football Club due to his friendship with chairman Bill Kenwright, but has no intention of formally investing in the club.^[20] He arranged for another friend, Planet Hollywood's owner Robert Earle to purchase shares from former director Paul Gregg during a struggle for control of Everton in 2004.^[21] He offers business advice to the club alongside Tesco CEO Terry Leahy and helps negotiates player transfer fees with agents.^[22]

Sir Phillip is also involved with Watford due to his friendship with Watford chairman L. Bassini. He is due to help them redevelop Vicarage Road Stadium.

Political views[link]

Two weeks prior to the 2010 general election, Green came out in support of David Cameron, George Osborne and the Conservative Party, stating that "[Cameron and Osborne] understand what needs to be done. They get it."^[23]

Efficiency review on government spending[link]

In August 2010, Green was asked by the recently elected Prime Minister, David Cameron, to carry out a review of government spending and procurement.^[24] Green's summary report, Efficiency Review by Sir Philip Green,^[25] published in October 2010, alleged significant failings in government procurement processes, however it has been generally dismissed by the procurement profession as being ill-researched and of little real worth.

Criticism[link]

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Tax avoidance[link]

Green became the target of activist group UK Uncut in November 2010 for his history of corporate tax avoidance. The group targeted Green specifically as a Government advisor.^[26]

On 4 December 2010 campaigners staged a sit-in at Green's flagship London Oxford Street Topshop store, and in Brighton a few glued themselves to the branch windows, while other high streets in towns and cities across Britain saw similar protests in a day of action against the tax arrangements of rich individuals and big businesses.

Green, the Arcadia retail group tycoon, became the focus of anger over the programme of government cuts that campaigners said could be avoided if tax dodging was stamped out, bringing in some £25bn a year to the public purse and reducing the national deficit.

Taveta Investments, the company used to acquire Arcadia in 2002, is in the name of Green's wife, Tina Green, a Monaco resident, avoiding £285 million in tax that would be payable if a UK resident owned the company.^[27] When Green paid his family £1.2bn in 2005, it was paid for by a loan taken out by Arcadia, cutting Arcadia's corporation tax as interest charges on the loan were offset against profits.^[28]

Excessive pay[link]

Green has fallen under criticism for taking excessive pay, earned through his shareholdings in Arcadia. In 2005, he declared a dividend in Arcadia, in which he had a holding of 92% of the shares. This meant he earned £1.2 billion in a single year. Green defended himself by saying, "So far as I'm concerned we are in the risk business. We risk our reputation and our money when we buy things. We don't have a guarantee on the back we can get a refund when we haven't got it right."^[29]

Worker rights[link]

Arcadia has been criticised for the pay and conditions of both overseas and UK workers by anti-sweatshop groups such as Labour Behind the Label, No Sweat and the student activist network People & Planet.^[30] Sir Philip Green denied Sunday Times allegations in 2007 that his firm used overseas sweatshops where workers in Mauritius were paid pitiful wages.^[31] In 2010, Sir Philip was again accused, this time by Channel 4's Dispatches programme of still using sweatshops – in Britain, where workers were paid less than half the legal minimum wage.^[32]

Involvement in government cuts[link]

On 29 November 2010, following protests against university fee rises and cuts, protesters occupied the flagship Oxford Street branch of Topshop, to highlight Green's involvement in the government spending cuts. They chanted "Philip Green's taxation could pay for education". Similar protests and occupations were set up at several stores owned by Mr. Green, including Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Leicester, York, Bristol, Portsmouth, Southampton, Newcastle and Cambridge. Arcadia shops came under major attacks during the TUC March for the Alternative demonstration on 26 March 2011.^{[citation needed]}

Personal style[link]

Green has been criticised for what some see as an overly aggressive personal style. He has a reputation for colourful language^{[citation needed]} and in 2003 made a string of expletive-laden outbursts to the Guardian's financial editor, Paul Murphy. Mr Green said: "He can't read English. Mind you, he is a fucking Irishman." He later apologised to the Irish, after customers threatened to boycott his stores.^[33]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Forbes.com: World's Richest People 2004 entry
• Forbes.com: World's Richest People 2006 entry
• Vincent, Sally (23 October 2004). "How I did it". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2004/oct/23/highstreetretailers.marksspencer. Retrieved 25 April 2009.  Interview with Green discussing his life.
• Times Online interview with Philip Green, December, 2007 (video)
• Growing Business meets Sir Philip Green
• Rushton, Susie (5 July 2007). "Philip Green: The king of the high street in his most outspoken interview ever". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/philip-green-the-king-of-the-high-street-in-his-most-outspoken-interview-ever-456046.html. Retrieved 25 April 2009. 
• Davidson, Andrew (24 October 2004). "The Andrew Davidson interview: Philip Green". The Sunday Times (London). http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article498102.ece. Retrieved 25 April 2009. 
• The Guardian's portal for article on Green
• Long, Camilla (8 April 2009). "It's the pop of Topshops". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25304797-5010800,00.html. Retrieved 25 April 2009. . Interview with Green.
• Stewart Lansley and Andy Forrester, Top Man, How Philip Green Built His Hight Street Empire, Aurum, 2006
• The British (retail) invasion

Philip DeFranco
Philip DeFranco (with microphone)
Born	Philip DeFranco (1985-12-01) December 1, 1985 (age 26)
Nationality	American
Other names	PhillyD, sxephil
Years active	2006–present
Known for	Directing, comedy, topical, world news, entertainment news, politics, popular culture technology, gossip
Internet information
Web alias(es)	sxephil (YouTube), PhillyD
Web hosting service(s)	YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr
Signature phrase	"As always, my name is Philip DeFranco, and you've just been phil'd in."
Website
phillyd.tv

Philip DeFranco^[1] (born December 1, 1985), is an American video blogger and YouTube celebrity. His videos are centered on current events, politics and celebrity gossip in which he gives his opinion, usually presented in an ironic manner and with frequent jump cuts to create a fast-paced feel. He has over 824 million views, and over 2 million subscribers, and is the 17th most subscribed YouTuber as of March 13, 2012. His second YouTube channel is called "PhilipDeFranco" and he also makes a series of vlogs which he calls "The Vloggity".

DeFranco started his YouTube channel in 2006, and his videos regularly surpass one million views daily. His large audience led to his winning of a Spore Creature Creator contest and Wired's Sexiest Geek of 2008 award, both open access online polls.

DeFranco was born December 1, 1985, in The Bronx, New York, United States.^[2] He was a student at 2 Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College^[3] and later a junior at East Carolina University.^[4] DeFranco said in an interview he had inherited polycystic kidney disease from his father and grandfather.^[4] He lives with his girlfriend Lindsay Jordan Doty^[5] (LinzLoves) and their two Yorkshire Terriers Rookie and Ace ventura pet detective.^[6]

YouTube[link]

On September 15, 2006, during his finals at East Carolina University, he created his sxephil YouTube channel.^[7][4]

Since his first video, he has amassed over two million fans that watch his videos 3-5 times a week.^{[8][improper synthesis?]}

Before the YouTube partner program was available, he has asked for donations from his viewers after claiming to have run out of money, and selling everything except his Mac, camera and clothes and overdrawing his bank account so he could spend a night in a hotel as he found it too scary sleeping in a car in Brooklyn. The video was eventually deleted.^{[9][10][11][12]}

On November 3, 2008, DeFranco announced that his work on YouTube would come to an end November 3, 2009.^[13] "I don't want to overrun my time because it'll mean a lot less to me," explained DeFranco in an interview.^[4] "I plan on ending The Philip DeFranco Show, but I definitely want to move on to something else non-Philip DeFranco Show-like."^[4] However, on his October 6, 2009, video, DeFranco announced he would continue the show beyond November 3, 2009,^[14] until he posted a video on April 22, 2010 saying that the show has ended. DeFranco stated he would be continuing with his YouTube channel but that he felt the show had become "stagnant" and that it needed to "evolve." As of April 26 DeFranco said he "needed to cancel the show", due to a contract he signed with a company "way back in the day" that allowed them to advertise his show which he would have to agree to. However DeFranco started a new show called "NSFW" or 'Not Safe For Work'. This new show is basically the same as the PDS, but it instead concentrated on what he liked the most about the Philip DeFranco Show. The show returned to its original format and name shortly after this due to an agreement he came to with the company he signed the contract with.^[15]

DeFranco used his large audience to win the Spore Creature Creator, a game promotion competition, and in doing so beat the Sprouse twins. The winner's prize was to choose which charity would receive a donation of $15,000. He chose the PKD Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which he attributed to his family's history with the condition.^[4] Defranco's large online audience also enabled him to win Wired's Sexiest Geek of 2008 competition, a reader voted contest.^[16] "Someone sent it to me, and I was like, really?" says DeFranco.^[4] "I kind of just promoted it because I thought it'd be funny for a normal guy to be at the top of the list."^[16]

On February 4, 2009, DeFranco commented on YouTube's new 'Most Popular' tab, saying "It is a mixture of views, audience attention (how long the viewer watches) and ratings. Why promote content that people aren't enjoying even after they watch it?" David Sarno of the Los Angeles Times said "it's one way to minimize the effect of gaming, in which users employ racy thumbnails or video titles to trick viewers into watching less than racy videos."^[17]

DeFranco announced one of his videos was censored by YouTube after they removed it from the front page. As a YouTube partner, however, his account was not suspended.^{[18][dead link]} In 2008, he used footage of the 2008 Toronto propane explosion captured by 24-year-old Saejin Oh without permission, a violation of YouTube's community guidelines. DeFranco declined a request from Wired.com for an interview on this subject. Saejin Oh filed a copyright claim with YouTube, and the video was eventually taken down.^[19]

As of May 2012 DeFranco has over 890 videos posted on YouTube.^[20] In an interview he claimed to have a salary of over $250,000 from a number of sources on the Internet, not just YouTube, but has denied it in several videos.^[4] He has been paid by companies to create videos to promote Carl's Jr.'s burgers,^[21][22] and the US television series Lie to Me and Fringe.^[23]

[edit] Hooking Up

In October 2008, DeFranco co-starred with Jessica Rose and Kevin Wu in Hooking Up, written and acted by Woody Tondorf as a promo from HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO). Hooking Up is a scripted 10-episode Web-based series set at a fictional university where the students spend most of their time emailing and using Facebook, but still manage to miscommunicate.^[24]

Guest appearances on Hooking Up have been made by Kevin Nalty, Michael Buckley, and other popular Internet celebrities.^[25]

By the show's second day on YouTube, it had received more than 450,000 views, which the NewTeeVee blog considers a success.^[26][27] Bobbie Johnson of The Guardian said that many Web surfers had "scoffed at what they see as a cynical attempt to cash in."^[28]

SourceFed[link]

SourceFed^[29] is a secondary channel launched by DeFranco^[30][31][32], produced by James Haffner^[33] on January 23, 2012.^[34] SourceFed is a channel which features five news related videos daily from Monday to Friday. The SourceFed channel also has three additional shows, Curb Cash, One On One, and the recently-launched Movie Club. As of May 17, 2012, SourceFed has earned over 402k subscribers and 92 million video views.^[35] Bloopers and behind the scenes videos, dubbed "DeFranco Inc.: Behind the Scenes" were regularly uploaded on Sundays, and eventually Saturdays in the absence of Curb Cash after the end of its first season before Movie Club eventually took up the Saturday slot itself. The SourceFed team consists of three 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.^[36][37] On May 26, 2012 the SourceFed YouTube channel reached the 100 million video view milestone.^[38][39]

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20 Minutes Or Less[link]

20 Minutes Or Less is a new show where hosts, Lee Newton, Elliott Morgan and Joe Bereta, present five news stories daily from Monday to Friday 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. YouTube celebrity, Harley Morenstein, guest hosted a story on 20 Minutes Or Less on March 5, 2012. 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.^[40] In an interview with Tubefilter, DeFranco stated that 20 Minutes or Less is the staple show of SourceFed.^[34] On February 6 and April 3, 2012 SourceFed crashed the Maxim Hot 100 voting website.^[41] 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".^[42] In May 2012, it was announced the Lee Newton placed 57th on the 2012 Maxim Hot 100 list.^[43][44][45]

Main hosts:

• Lee Newton
• Elliott Morgan
• Joe Bereta

Temporary/Fill-in hosts:

• Philip DeFranco
• Keith Jordan
• Trisha Hershberger
• Steve Zaragoza

Guest hosts:

• Harley Morenstein
• George Watsky

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 lead 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 off 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 six people who have been interviewed so far are Justine Ezarik, Kevin Pereira, Jenna Marbles, Harley Morenstein, George Watsky and Alice Eve.

The New Movie Thing Show[link]

On May 11, 2012, SourceFed launched "The New Movie Thing Show" 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 Zarazgoza, this time joined by Joe Bereta reviewed The Human Centipede 2.

See also[link]

• List of YouTube personalities
• Viral marketing

References[link]