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Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (VitalyTV)

Summary Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (born March 8, 1992 in Murmansk), better known by his YouTube username VitalyzdTV, is a Russian American comedian. He is best known for his public prank videos, which he uploads to his YouTube account. As of November 1, 2013, his channel VitalyzdTV has reached over 344 million views and currently has over 3 million subscribers. Personal Life Vitaly and his family moved from Murmansk, Russia, to Odessa, Ukraine in the mid-1990’s. In 2004, at the age of 12, his family immigrated to the US speaking no English, asides from simple words like “Cat” and “Dog,” and begin able to count to ten. Vitaly determined to excel despite the language barrier, attended public school and upon his high-school graduation from Boca Raton High School in Del Rey Beach, Florida, graduated with a 3.5 GPA. Career Choosing to pursue dreams and ambitions outside of the traditional college experience, Vitaly decided to instead pick up a job as a waiter where he saved his earnings for a high-quality camera and laptop with the hopes of becoming a prominent vlogger. Vitaly created his official VitalyzdTV YouTube channel in 2011 and a few months later, having amassed 3,000 subscribers, Vitaly quit his job to pursue YouTube full-time. Over a year and a half since the channel’s inception, Vitaly had amassed over 3.8M subscribers, 381M views and 55M monthly visits to his channel. In addition to running his own channel, he has leveraged his audience to launch new channels for up-and-coming creators including Jerome Jarred and Steve O, amongst others. In the summer of 2013, Vitaly moved to Los Angeles to continue the growth of his channel and to pursue larger dreams and ambitions. He is currently working to bring his talents to the small screen.

Appearances Vitaly has been featured on various shows and articles including: Tosh.0, Inside Edition, Good Morning LA, and the Local news in Boca Raton. He also placed first on the UK competition prank show RudeTube. Some of Vitaly’s cameo appearances include music video, HYFR, by rapper Drake, a Snoop Dog music video and the movie “Pain an Gain,” during the scene where Mark Wahlberg walks up the stairs in the gym. Clips from Videos Appearances His prank videos have been shown on: TrueTV, ABC, national news, GMA, MTV Canada, MTV US, Morning Rise in Australia, Mainstream networks all over Europe and through out the.

Biggest Successes VitalyzdTV's biggest YouTube videos successes to date include Miami Zombie, Get Girls to Kiss You, Gold Digger, Texas Chainsaw Friday 13th Prank and Extreme Homeless Makeover. These videos combined amass over 94 million views. Vitaly’s videos take viewers on various emotional and social experiences and allow them to interact and observe others through a third eye. The various clips from VitalyzdTV create dialogues regarding the various opinions and responses to his actions and the reactions of others. With a strong social media following and socially conscious videos Vitally has inspired and entertained millions. Extreme Homeless Makeover Vitaly donates his earnings to consistently produce Extreme Homeless Makeover a vlog series he started to give back and show the compassionate side of he and his team. His most notable charitable endeavor via Extreme Homeless Makeover included helping a homeless Miami man named Martin achieve his dream of correcting his smile and by doing so helped Martin start life a new. The Huffington Post, Good Day LA, and various national websites such as CNBC, and MSN chronicled the story. Vitaly his team initially helped the homeless man by providing him with a new outfit, haircut, shower, steak dinner, and motel room. Two weeks later Vitally and his team took Martin to some local dentists to get his smile fixed, a dream Martin had for years. Once his smile was correct Martin was determined to get his life back has since reconciled with his family, and landed a job. He told viewers in the last installment of Extreme Homeless Makeover "The next time you see me, I'm gonna own my own business, get my license, drive a car again, and have all the good things in the world. I love you all."