Scooter Magruder

Background

Magruder was born in Orlando, Florida.

Education

He graduated from Doctor Phillips High School in 2007 as senior class president He then attended and graduated from the University of Florida cum laude with a degree in telecommunication production. After graduation, Magruder completed one year with Americorps.

Career

As of August 2014, his videos have been viewed over 12 million times with over 100,000 subscribers to his channel. At the age of 14, Magruder was on the reality show Endurance 2 where he placed sixth on the Blue Team. In the summer of 2003, Magruder was a contestant on the reality show Endurance 2, which aired on National Broadcasting Company & Discovery Kids.

The show was taped in Baja, California and was hosted by Juris Doctor Roth.

The show prompted Magruder to begin creating videos. lieutenant was also during this show where Magruder learned the ins and outs of television production.

Magruder started regularly posting YouTube videos in August 2011. Magruder makes videos on wide ranging topics, including Top 100 videos where he lists 100 things of a certain genre such as "Top 100 Male Lies", "Stuff Fans Say" where he imitates fans of other teams, and multiple other formats, including vlogs, how-to videos, and relationship advice videos.

Each video is introduced by Magruder saying "What"s up guys, hope you"re doing well." Each video ends by him saying his catch phrases: "Number Jugamos Juegos" (Translated from Spanish meaning "we don"t play games") and "Throw me the alley." None of Magruder"s videos contain any curse words since he tries to exemplify his Christian values through his videos.

Magruder"s videos have been posted on the Huffington Post, RightThisMinute, NBATV, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, the Orlando Sentinel, the Miami Herald, and even the Today Show. His most successful video to date is "Top 100 First World Problems" with over 1,000,000 views. In the summer of 2012, Magruder was selected to be one of sixteen YouTube Next Vloggers.

Vloggers received $5,000 in equipment, $10,000 in YouTube promotional advertisement for their channel, as well as mentoring from other Top Vloggers such as iJustine and Natalie Tran of Community Channel Sixteen "Next Vloggers" in total were selected from over thousands of applicants worldwide.

Connections

Partner:

Christa Scholtz