Shay Carl Butler is a successful blogger, Youtuber, and co-founder of a company called Maker Studios. Carl has been working on YouTube for five years. Forbes called Butler “One of the most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube with a fan base of over one million subscribers.”
Butler started to make YouTube videos in 2009. His channel started to grow and increase subscribers after Phillip DeFranco, Youtuber, gave him a shout out. When he moved out to Los Angeles in 2009 to form a company called Maker Studios, with his friend Lisa, Ben, Donavin, Dan Zappin, and Kassem Gharaibeh. “What began as friends with a vision quickly grew to several sound stages, editing suites, millions of subscribers and billions of views.”
His channel “ShayTards” won an award in 2009 for “Best YouTube Channel and Personality” at the third annual Open Web Awards. As of right now he has 2.6 million in his main channel. He started to daily vlog in March 5th 2009, but now he uploads vlogs on weekdays.
In his main channel he uploads vlogs about him and his family’s daily life. He has five children, he has specific names for them in his videos. Their names are, Gavin (Sontard), Avia (Princesstard), Emmi (Babytard), Brock (Rocktard), and Daxton (Brotard).
Butler’s company Maker Studios was sold to Disney for 500 million dollars. Disney bought Maker Studios because it already has a very large audience that will only keep growing, they get 5.5 billion views on YouTube every month. Maker Studios is Partnered with different YouTube channels, like Tobuscus, KassemG, StampyLongHead, and many more. They are also partnered with Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie), Felix has over 30 million subscribers on YouTube, and he has the most subscribe YouTube channel.
Butler has won a couple of awards, and has been part of other shows. He won the Marshable Open Web Award for Best YouTube personality in 2009, and he also won a Streamy Award this year. He was part of a few shows like “The Station”, “The Annoying Orange”, “MyMusic”, and “Youtubers React”, all of this shows are web series.
Butler has many channels and all of his channels have been successful. His most successful one the “ShayTards” with 2.6 Million subscribers, “ShayCarl” were he uploads comedy skits and music videos, “ShayLoss” this is where he uploads fitness videos, and “WhenTheKidsGoToSleep” in this channel he uploads podcasts of him and his wife discussing about different topics that are asked in the comments, they also interview different YouYubers in this channel. He also inspired both of his brothers to start YouTube channels.
Butler has completed a successful Indiegogo campaign for “I’m Vlogging Here”, Shay raised over 200,000 dollars to make a movie. “This documentary will delve into what vlogging is, the rise of YouTube creators, and how vlogging has forever changed the lives of the vloggers, the viewers, and the industry itself,” said Shay on the Indiegogo page. “We want to tell the story of how being a Youtuber has changed the lives of thousands through the eyes of one family that has realized a dream come true of a dream they never knew they even had.”