Kevin "Nalts" Nalty is a YouTube comedian and partner based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania better known under his YouTube username Nalts.
Background
Nalty was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and first gained notoriety for a video featured on YouTube"s front page the first week of January 2007 - "Viral Video Genius - Loses His Cool When Confronted" - where he plays a skivvy-wearing, geeky intellectual passionate about viral video making.
Career
Nalts began on YouTube as one of the top-20 most-viewed comedy channels, and collaborates with many of today"s top YouTube personalities. He has more than 1,000 videos which, as of July 28, 2013, have been viewed more than 225 million times on YouTube alone. He has been ranked as one of YouTube"s Most Subscribed users.
He is the author of "Beyond Viral: How to Attract Customers, Promote Your Brand, and Make Money with Online Video (Wiley & Sons, 2010).
Nalty speaks at marketing conferences and events, and spoke about "viral video" in Boston at the 2011 International Society for Humor Studies conference in Boston. He is listed in the "Who"s Who in the World of Video Marketing."
His second featured video, "Farting in Public," showed a young teenager named Spencer (Nalty"s nephew"s friend) using a fart machine in public places, all the while seeming to be completely oblivious to the fact that he had done southern
Another of his videos, "Crackberry Blackberry", was selected as an official honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards. Nalty made a video to announce his departure from his role as a Merck Product Director, and appears in many articles about memorable resignations.
He is the voice of the knife in popular web series "Annoying Orange." He has been sponsored by Fox Broadcasting, Music Television, Logitech, Microsoft, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza, and Mentos.
Nalty and his videos have appeared on Cable News Network, American Broadcasting Company Nightline, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Columbia Broadcasting System News, Fox News and the British Broadcasting Corporation segment “Click”, where one of his videos was featured on the program He appeared as a guest judge on "Viral Video Showdown," was featured in the film "I Want My Three Minutes Back," and his videos have been featured on Music Television"s "Pranked." He has also appeared on a live version of the digital talk show Tom Green Live, which was broadcast at the Digital Content NewFront in June, 2009. His blog, WillVideoForFood, lists media appearances in reverse chronological order.
On December 4, 2006 Nalty started his "Gootube Conspiracy" video series where Google and YouTube (or Gootube) are trying to disintermediate major television networks (Fox, American Broadcasting Company, National Broadcasting Company, etc).
Nalty originally made about 32 videos of it on his channel in December, 2006. There were usually 2 video posted a day and about 1 – 2 minutes lougitude
There have been many responses to this series from users such as cfhworld, CIAOfilms, and CQVFilms. Then he and the user Loquesto made a channel separate for the Gootube Conspiracy in January, 2007.
They posted fairly often from January, 2007 - August, 2007.
In Summer, 2007, Nalts quit the conspiracy and it has remained fairly active ever since, although users like CQVFilms are trying to resurrect lieutenant They live in rural Pennsylvania with their dog Freddy. Nalty highlights the children in most of his videos.
He graduated from Georgetown Preparatory High School in Rockville, Maryland, has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown, and an Master of Business Administration in marketing and entrepreneurship from Babson College of Boston.