Matthew Santoro is a Canadian YouTube personality. He primarily posts top ten lists and "50 Amazing Facts" videos on his main channel, "MatthewSantoro". He used to have a second channel which was primarily used for vlogging, but he deleted this channel in April of 2018. Santoro also used to host a gaming channel called "Santoro Gaming", but he deleted this channel in December of 2016.
As of July 20, 2018, Santoro's channel has over 6 million subscribers and 1.1 billion video views.
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Channel history
Santoro most frequently uploads top ten lists, such as "10 FORBIDDEN Places You're Not Allowed to Visit!" and "10 Extremely BIZARRE Phobias People Actually Have!".
On January 4, 2016, Santoro began uploading videos to his third channel Santoro Gaming. This channel had over 5.9 million subscribers and over 1 billion views.
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Personal life
Santoro was born in Cambridge, Ontario and later moved to Welland and then St. Catharines. In May 2015, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A fan of Drake and hip-hop culture, Santoro often refers to Toronto as "The 6ix".
In January 2016, he uploaded a video titled My Abuse Story. He talked about an unnamed romantic partner, who he claimed was manipulative and forced him to turn his friends and family away in favour of her and she had also psychologically and physically abused him during their relationship. Santoro claims that the video was intended to be private, but that he had made it public accidentally. It was claimed by his friend, Rob Dyke, that the "unnamed partner" mentioned in the video was Nicole Arbour.
He has made references to his arachnophobia in videos containing facts about spiders.
Santoro moved to Los Angeles in the first week of January 2017 and possesses a U.S. green card but maintains Canadian citizenship.
On October 21, 2017, Santoro released a video revealing that he suffers from clinical depression.
Career
After Santoro graduated from Brock University with a Master of Accountancy in 2010, he became an accountant. He also started making videos on YouTube that year, mostly skits. In 2012 he got laid off from his accounting job. He described that experience in a vlog titled "I Lost My Job Today". He then started focusing on his YouTube career and thus began posting videos weekly. Also during this time, he recalls in an interview, that he noticed that his educational videos, such as his top ten lists and "50 Amazing Facts" series, were viewed more than his other videos. That made him begin uploading those types of videos more frequently. He believes that his more frequent of uploading of these videos helped increased his viewership from only a few thousand per video in the past, to the millions he currently has. He is able to make a career out of YouTube through the money he earns from ad revenue, which is more than what he made as an accountant.
Notable collaborations
Santoro has been a special guest narrator on CinemaSins' Everything Wrong With... series. He was featured in the Underworld: Evolution video which was published on October 10, 2014. He also collaborated with Matthias, creating a song, "The Booty Song", and Barely Political (Now Barely Productions) in their video, "YouTube Complaints 2015". Santoro and Vsauce3 collaborated with The Muppets, in a video titled, "What if Quicksilver Ran Past You?", which was the first video in the Muppet collaboration initiative on YouTube.
He collaborated with Lilly Singh, Olga Kay, Toby Turner, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others, in Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles, a promotional series for the 2015 film Terminator Genisys.
Other work
Santoro is the host of Quest Nutrition's "Food for Thought" webseries. The first episode, "10 INCREDIBLE Facts About Chicken", premiered on May 28, 2015.
Santoro, along with Yousef Saleh Erakat, Soledad O'Brien and Will.i.am hosted the Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day event. On September 26, 2015, Santoro, along with AsapScience, Stephen Colbert and Hugh Jackman hosted the Global Citizen festival.
In June 2015, Santoro obtained a global publishing deal from Penguin Books for his book., titled MIND=BLOWN, which was released on August 9, 2016.
Santoro retired with the title of #1 "most loved" Periscoper in the world with over 177 million hearts on the live streaming app Periscope on November 11, 2015.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Matthew Santoro's channel on YouTube
- Matthew Santoro Vlogs's channel on YouTube
- Matthew Santoro on IMDb
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