If you don't know who Phil DeFranco is, you probably should. DeFranco is huge on YouTube—like 2.6-million-subscribers-1-billion-views huge. His channel SourceFed, which blends news, politics and humor, is often cited as the most successful of the much-hyped YouTube funded channels. DeFranco recently expanded, launching SourceFed Nerd two weeks ago (it's already over 1.3 million views).
On Thursday, it was announced that Discovery Communications' Revision3 (a pioneer in Web video programming) fully acquired DeFranco's collection of channels, along with his merchandising business.
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