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What is Philip DeFranco's Net Worth?

Philip DeFranco is an American video blogger and YouTube celebrity who has a net worth of $16 million. Philip DeFranco is consistently one of the highest-paid YouTube stars in the world. Philip DeFranco's videos typically cover current events, politics, and celebrity gossip. He has aired his videos voicing his opinion on things on the YouTube channel "PhilipDeFranco," which, as of this writing, has more than 6.4 million subscribers and has more than 2.1 billion video views.

Early Life

Philip James Franchini Jr., more commonly known as Philip DeFranco, was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, on December 1, 1985. He has a younger sister named Sabrina. He left home in New York due to unstable family conditions, including a mother suffering from alcoholism and an abusive step-father, and ended up working a series of off jobs to survive; he did everything from work at a movie theater and as a waiter, to selling bootleg DVDs on eBay. He has also been an enrolled student at multiple schools, including the University of South Florida, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, and East Carolina University.

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Career

While a student at East Carolina University, DeFranco created his original YouTube account on September 15, 2006. It was originally called "sxephil". Then, in 2007, he started his second YouTube channel, "PhilipDeFranco". His early content was focused on "newsie type stuff" and various topics that caught his attention. He started calling his new-focused videos "The Philip DeFranco Show." However, after a video titled "Big Boobs and You" became his most successful video in August 2007, achieving 1.8 million views, he realized the popularity of similar content, and shifted his focus to be almost entirely on sex, gossip, and news.

As his online audience grew in size, he began attracting more and more attention. In 2008, he beat out celebrities likeStan Lee,Katy Perry, andElijah Woodto win the Spore Creature Creator competition, and donated his $15,000 winner's prize to the charity of his choice, the PKD Foundation (a charity that fights polycystic kidney disease). That same year, he also won the title of "Sexiest Geek of 2008" from Wired. Other projects he worked on during this period include co-starring with Jessica Rose and Kevin Wu in the scripted web series "Hooking Up" for the online arms of HBO, HBOLabs; being a founding member of The Station; and launching other channels, like "Like Totally Awesome," where he accepted video reviews of movies, video games, or technology from his viewers. As a result of his efforts, when the 2010s rolled around, his "sxephil" channel was the fifth-most subscribed channel on YouTube.

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Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.