name	Shay Carl
alt	Shay Carl at VidCon
birth name	Shay Carl Butler
birth date	March 05, 1980
birth place	Logan, Utah, USA
residence	Venice, Los Angeles, USA; and Pocatello, Idaho, USA
occupation	Vlogger, Entrepreneur (Co-Founder of Maker Studios)
years active	April 2007 – present
organization	Maker Studios
religion	Mormon
spouse	Colette Butler (2003- Present)
children	Gavin "Sontard" (b. December 3, 2003)Avia "Princesstard" (b. October 25, 2013)
website	shaycarl.com }}

Shay Carl Butler (born March 5, 1980), known professionally as Shay Carl, is an American vlogger and YouTube personality. Butler has five YouTube channels, two of which ("shaycarl" and "SHAYTARDS") have over one million subscribers. Butler and ApprenticeEh are currently developing a documentary called "Vlogumentary" on a $200,000+ budget that was funded with an Indiegogo campaign and raised by mostly his viewers. Forbes called Butler one of the "most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube" and in 2011 ''The New York Times'' featured Butler's production company Maker Studios.

Early life[link]

Shay Carl Butler was born on March 5, 1980, in Logan, Utah to Carl and Laurie Butler. At the age of four, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where his father attended school for electrical engineering. After his father graduated, the family moved to Pocatello, Idaho. After graduating from high school, Butler served a full-time, two year mission to Barbados, Trinidad and Guyana with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He briefly attended Idaho State University, but dropped out to start working on his own. Prior to his activities on YouTube, Butler installed granite countertops for a living and worked as a school bus driver. He also worked as a radio DJ for Z103.

YouTube popularity[link]

Butler became more popular on YouTube after Philip DeFranco had watched one of his videos and gave him a shout-out. The shout-out resulted in a rise of Butler's subscribers and also in a friendship between him and DeFranco. By working with other YouTubers at The Station, Butler more than quadrupled his subscription base. Butler later joined the YouTube Partner Program and co-founded Maker Studios. In November 2009, he collaborated with Midi Mafia to create a flash mob at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. In 2009, Butler's "SHAYTARDS" channel won "Best YouTube Channel or Personality" at Mashable's 3rd annual Open Web Awards. In 2013, the same channel was one of the nominees in the "Best Non-Fiction or Reality Series" category of the 3rd Streamy Awards. Butler and his wife, Colette, run a very popular podcast called "When the Kids Go to Sleep", where they interview YouTubers and celebrities such as Terry Crews and Bas Rutten. In February 2013, actor Matt Damon made a guest appearance in one of Butler's vlogs after he and Damon had collaborated on a video to promote a Water.org project. Butler sometimes creates sponsored videos, in which he promotes brands or companies in exchange for financial benefits. Examples of such so-called "brand deals" he has made are with General Electric, Foot Locker, Kia and Skype.

Personal life[link]

Butler married Colette ("Katilette") in January 2003, and they have five children. His family is known as the "SHAYTARDS" and as "YouTube's first family". Shay is the oldest of four children and his siblings Casey, Carlie and Logan are all active in the YouTube community. In a March 2012 episode of ''Anderson Live'', Butler stated his second youngest son Brock is "like the real-world Truman baby" because Brock has been recorded since minutes after his birth. His third child and second daughter, Emmi, was featured on the front cover of James Blunt's album ''Some Kind of Trouble''. In October 2013 their fifth child, Daxton, was born.

Butler lost 112 lbs in the space of a year and subsequently ran three marathons, one of which he ran with motivational speaker Dave Ramsey, with whom he is good friends. Butler documented his weight loss journey on his "ShayLoss" channel.

YouTube channels[link]

Butler has five YouTube channels. His "shaycarl" and "SHAYTARDS" channels have over one million and two million subscribers, respectively. For his "shaycarl" channel, Butler frequently works with celebrities such as retired basketball player Charles Barkley and retired mixed martial artist Bas Rutten.

Involvement with Maker Studios[link]

Butler originally moved out to Los Angeles in 2009 to form the company Maker Studios, along with friends and fellow YouTubers Lisa and Ben Donovan, Dan Zappin, and Kassem Gharaibeh. Maker's programming is divided into four networks: "Men", "Women", "Family", and "Entertainment". These four networks include such successful channels as "The Mom's View", which Butler's wife Colette appears on regularly as a part of the weekly "Mom's View talk Show". Butler became widely reported on when Maker Studios was sold to The Walt Disney Company for $500 million on March 24, 2014.

Award !! Category !! Channel !! Outcome
3rd Mashable#Mashable Awards	Open Web Awards (Mashable Awards; 2009)	Best YouTube Channel or Personality	SHAYTARDS
3rd Streamy Awards (2013)	Best Non-Fiction or Reality Series

Filmography[link]

''The Annoying Orange'' ''No Ordinary Family'' ''MyMusic''

Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
2009	The Station (YouTube)>The Station''	Randy / Shay
2010	|	Cabbage/Shay Red	(web series; 2 episodes)
2011	|	Security Guard	(TV series; 1 episode)
2012–2013	|	Hipster Metal	(web series; 3 episodes)

Butler has also done voice acting work for Cartoonium's ''Shaybeard'' online cartoon series, which features Butler as a Viking. He also starred alongside Steven Tyler, Jane Lynch, Kiss and others in a public service announcement of the Adopt the Arts Foundation.

See also[link]

List of YouTube personalities

Maker Studios

References[link]

External links[link]

Category:1980 births Category:American Internet celebrities Category:American Latter Day Saints Category:Living people Category:Video bloggers Category:Maker Studios people