Natalie Tran
Natalie Tyler Tran (born 24 July 1986) is a video blogger on YouTube from Sydney, Australia, using the nickname communitychannel. She is the most subscribed Australian YouTuber. As of January 2012, Tran has 281 videos available on her YouTube channel and is the most-subscribed user of all time in Australia, the 26th most subscribed of all time on YouTube, and the 7th-most subscribed director worldwide. She also manages the 58th most viewed channel on YouTube of all time. Tran was the first runner up in Michael Buckley’s Miss YouTube contest. She created her first video on 25 September 2006.
Tran has more than 1 million subscribers and more than 406 million views. This popularity has led to media coverage and appearances in The Sydney Morning Herald, Western Australia Today, B&T Magazine, Venus Zine. Der Spiegel, Báo Viêt Luận Online, Việt Tribune, VnExpress, Triple J, and the Hot30 Countdown. Her defence of Vegemite in response to a YouTube video by Ben Going was featured on the Australian television programme A Current Affair on February 2007, as part of the Vegemite wars segment. Tran’s most viewed video had over 20 million views in March 2010 and the number of views has grown significantly since then.
Tran has been recognised for her creative work and popularity on the Internet in various ways. She was one of the Australian YouTube celebrities invited to talk about the site at the launch of YouTube Australia in 2007. She is presently enlisted by The Sydney Morning Herald as a contributor and Real World Correspondent to their technology vlog Digital Life, complementing main presenter and journalist Séamus Byrne.
Although her original skits are specifically written and created for Digital Life, they are produced almost entirely in the same manner and style as her YouTube material. Tran was a presenter at “Creative Sydney” in May 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Tran was nominated for “Best YouTube Channel or Personality” and “Funniest YouTube Channel” by Mashable in their 2009 Open Web Awards.
Tran was one of the presenters at the 2010 Entertainment Gathering (EG) convention in Monterey, California. In 2010, Tran was a presenter at ideaCity in Toronto, Canada. In 2010, the analytics firm TubeMogul placed Tran at #10 on their list of top ten earners from YouTube advertising. According to TubeMogul, Tran earned $101,000 and had 138,871,829 views. Based on data released by YouTube, Tran’s YouTube channel had more views in one week in March 2011 than many of the most popular television shows on Australian television.
In November 2010, Tran embarked on a global odyssey sponsored by Lonely Planet. Tran is also a Sydney correspondent for The Project’s Metro Whip Around segment. In 2011, she appeared as a guest on an episode of the third series of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation.
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