(1) Tom Whitwell is a digital consultant working with the British Council 's Creative Economy programme , which connects creative pioneers through international initiatives such as Playable City and Unbox
(2) The second biggest YouTube channel in July 2014 was DisneyCollector, with its collection of toy-unboxing videos racking up 268m views in the month, putting it ahead of musician Shakira’s 226.6m views.
(3) But non-gaming children’s channels are also popular: the biggest channel on YouTube in October was toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector , with nursery-rhyme channel Little Baby Bum also in the top five on YouTube that month.
(4) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .
(5) One customer even made an “unboxing” video on YouTube: Facebook Twitter Pinterest But that’s just what they got.
(6) Toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector and Minecraft gamer Stampy were its second and fourth most popular channels in 2014 with 3.3bn and 2.2bn views respectively.
(7) Teaser video advertisements for the forthcoming Samsung "unboxing" feature a boy whose face is lit up by a golden glow as he becomes the first to lift the lid on the S4.
(8) YouTube’s top 100 channels have more than doubled their monthly views in the last year, with toy-unboxing channel Funtoys Collector emerging as the biggest star.
(9) The latest month’s top 10 is a mixture of music, games and children’s channels, including Taylor Swift (361.3m views in January); Russian cartoon channel GetMovies (359.5m); nursery rhymes collection Little Baby Bum (302.1m); Russian animated series Masha and the Bear (287.8m); games channel Popular MMOs (266.9m); more toy-unboxing with Blu Toys (255.3m); child-friendly Minecraft gamer Stampy (252.9m); and BuzzFeed Video (239.4m).
(10) The next hour (11pm EST) brought another unboxing in Seoul.
(11) In August 2014, the service’s second biggest channel was DisneyCollector , a Brazilian channel devoted to unboxing new toys.
(12) Brazilian toy-unboxing channel DisneyCollector was the second most popular in August, with 324.4m views.
(13) Leading to this Friday’s hullabaloo was a YouTube round-the-world event – which ends on Thursday night – where the new toys were unboxed live in 15 different cities over an 18-hour span.
(14) For much of 2014, the biggest star of them all was gamer PewDiePie , but he’s now been relegated into second place in the rankings by Funtoys Collector , the toy-unboxing channel formerly known as DC Toys Collector – and before that, Disney Collector.
(15) So comedians are going to play an important role, in tweaking, prodding and exposing the trunk of hypocrisy and rights violations that will be “unboxed” in the few years.
(16) Fans of the film series could watch from the comfort of their homes as the whole global event was being live-streamed from Sydney to San Francisco in an 18-hour toy-unboxing marathon.
(17) @Swan-City said: “I’m having issues accessing the PSN just unboxed my ps4 downloaded firmware now can’t get log into PSN to download games”, while @nerdrock “Real shocked I’m unable to enjoy my new PS4 on Christmas morning.
(18) ‘Fun Toyz Collector is the biggest channel of all on YouTube’ One example: unboxing channels, where toys (and a surprising number of Kinder Eggs) are unboxed and shown off for massive audiences of online kids.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Admittedly, I didn’t see those two moments of unboxing live, and that’s an issue I’ll have to deal with until my dying day.
(20) Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) Just woke up, tuned into the #ForceFriday unboxing, and saw Rey and Phasma costumes available for kids!