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Brooke Brodack
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Background information
Birth name Brooke Allison Brodack
Born April 7, 1986 (1986-04-07) (age 22)
Flag of the United States Putnam, Connecticut, United States
Other name(s) Brooke Alley
Internet activity
Web alias(es) Brookers
Period active September 30, 2005 - Present
Host service(s) YouTube, MySpace, Revver, Stickam
Genre(s) Comedy, Parody
Official site brookebrodack.tv

Brooke Allison "Brookers" Brodack (born April 7, 1986, in Putnam, Connecticut) is a viral video maker, believed to be the first performer to have been discovered on the YouTube website and offered a contract from the mainstream media.[1] She began posting her short comedic videos on YouTube in September 2005. By June 2006, they had earned her an 18-month development contract from Carson Daly, the host of a late night show on NBC and former VJ on MTV.[2] She was named "Crossover Star" by the Wall Street Journal on its New Media Power List on July 29, 2006. [3]

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[edit] Early Life

Brodack was born on April 7, 1986 in Putnam, Connecticut to parents Beverly and Mark. Since the age of 9 Brooke was making movies with the family camcorder and transferring them VCR Cassette with sisters Heidi and Melissa.[4]. The Brodack family moved to Holden, Massachusetts sometime in her childhood and graduated from Wachusett Regional High School. She has also attended courses at Worcester State College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Mount Wachusett Community College. After which, became a hostess at the 99 Restaurant.[5]

[edit] Rise to YouTube Fame

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Brodack in "CRAZED NUMA FAN!!!" with a cardboard cut-out of Orlando Bloom.

In September 2005 Brodack joined the video sharing site YouTube and by the end of the month, uploaded her first video entitled: "EmoSpace", a mockery of the stereotype "Emo" MySpace users. This was also the first video with Missy as the Co-star. However Brodack's big break came in late October when her most recent video "CRAZED NUMA FAN!!!" had been featured on the front page of Youtube.com[6]

In April 2006, YouTube re-designed their site to make it more user friendly. This included a side panel labeled "Directors Videos". Several of Brodack's videos were picked to be shown in this section, including: CRAZED NUMA FAN, Steal My Sunshine, EmoSpace and Cell Block Tango. Seeing that this was a new addition, there was not many videos that were rotating through the choices, so Brodack's videos were practically on every single page on YouTube for the early stages of this design. The ease of access to her YouTube videos escalated her videos popularity so much so that she became overwhelmed with comments, messages and emails. On June 16, 2006, Brooke released the video "Run of the mill", a satrical spin-off of the average video-blogger consiting mainly of gibberish with subtitled translation. This was immediately featured on YouTube's Front Page the same night.

[edit] NBC Contract

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[edit] Post Contract

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Brooke Allison "Brookers" Brodack (born April 7, 1986, in Putnam, Connecticut) is a viral video maker, believed to be the first performer to have been discovered on the YouTube website and offered a contract from the mainstream media.[1] She began posting her short comedic videos on YouTube in September 2005. By June 2006, they had earned her an 18-month development contract from Carson Daly, the host of a late night show on NBC and former VJ on MTV.[7] She was named "Crossover Star" by the Wall Street Journal on its New Media Power List on July 29, 2006. [8]

From August 2006 to April 2007, she played a large role on a Daly-hosted, NBC-sponsored video contest website, It's Your Show TV (www.iystv.com), posting many videos there.[9] In May 2007, Brodack started her own "web channel," www.brookebrodack.tv, which is offered through www.me.tv, a new service Daly helped to found.

Brodack directs, edits, and performs in her videos, most of which have been set in and around her family home in Holden, Massachusetts. The New Yorker has called her videos "defiantly madcap".[10] Taken together, they have received more than 31 million views on YouTube alone. Her single most popular video, "CRAZED NUMA FAN!!!!", a lip-sync parody of an earlier internet phenomenon, Numa Numa by Gary Brolsma (itself a parody of Dragostea din tei by O-Zone[11]), has been viewed on YouTube over 6 million times. Her video "Chips", a spoof suspense drama about eating potato chips, has been called "brilliant" by Entertainment Weekly, which has listed it among the "great moments in YouTube history".[12]

Brodack appeared on The Tyra Banks Show on December 6, 2006, as a judge for a student video competition. In February 2007, she released "The Sound of Your Voice", a viral music video for The Barenaked Ladies.

Brodack sometimes has been called a "videoblogger"[11], but in fact she often criticizes and parodies the phenomenon of videoblogging in videos such as "Run of the Mill and the "V-Clog" Series.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Martin, Denise. "Daly digs YouTube talent", Variety, June 12, 2006. 
  2. ^ Collins, Scott. "Now she has their attention", Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2006. 
  3. ^ "Moguls of New Media", Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2007-05-20. 
  4. ^ a b Audette, Ashely. "Brookers Interview", brookerfanatics.com, June 14, 2006. 
  5. ^ a b c Hardy, Michael. "The self-made star", The Boston Globe, June 27, 2006. 
  6. ^ "YouTube Front Page", Archive.org. Retrieved on 2005-10-24. 
  7. ^ Collins, Scott. "Now she has their attention", Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2006. 
  8. ^ "Moguls of New Media", Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2007-05-20. 
  9. ^ "Daly expands domain with Net projects", The Hollywood Reporter, 2006-11-27. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. 
  10. ^ Ben Mcgrath. "It Should Happen to You", The New Yorker, 2006-10-16. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. 
  11. ^ a b Feifer, Jason. "Video makers find a vast and eager audience", Worcester Telegram, June 11, 2006. 
  12. ^ Juarez, Vanessa. "YouTube nation", ew.com, August 22, 2006. 

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