Brownlee resides in three East Coast cities: Maplewood, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Hoboken, New Jersey.[clarification needed] He attended Columbia High School,[6] and is currently is a marketing student at Stevens Institute of Technology. Other than producing content and school, he plays golf, and is a former professional ultimate frisbee player with the New Jersey Hammerheads.[1][7]
Brownlee joined YouTube on March 21, 2008. He first started uploading videos January 1, 2009,[8] about new products, or reviews of products he already owned. He says his first videos were screencasting where he would post an image and just talk over it, then responded to requests from viewers of what they would like to watch.[8] His first several hundred videos were primarily hardware tutorials, and freeware.[1] He was later approached by companies to demonstrate their paid software and hardware, but only reviews products that would be of interest to his audience of technology enthusiasts.[1] Brownlee is best known today for his content about hand-held devices. As of February 2014, he has over 993,170 subscribers, which makes MKBHD the most subscribed-to 'Tech-based' YouTube channel. Brownlee usually uploads one video per week. According to SocialBlade's Channel rating system, As of January 2014, MKBHD holds a grade A, with a subscriber rank of 620th and a video rank at 3,347th with a personal SocialBlade rating of 475th.[9]
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