Wonder Quest also came shortly after the company launched YouTube Kids, a standalone app for children.
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Garrett was one of the first YouTubers making children’s content to be commissioned by the service for an original series of this type. “It’s hopefully more exciting and action-packed, and there are some very cool guest stars that a lot of my audience will know and be excited about.” Season two is almost finished – there are only two episodes left to film,” he says. “It’s had such a positive reception from fans, parents and teachers. Garrett says he is proud that the show and its spin-off animation series I Wonder has been used in schools. The show, which aimed to engage children with science topics, did well: its standalone channel has more than 44m views, and a second series is on the way. Earlier in 2015, he launched a new educational series called Wonder Quest, commissioned and funded by YouTube and produced by multi-channel network Maker Studios. Stampy’s Lovely Book is the first of a two-book publishing deal with Egmont, but Garrett says his priority remains YouTube. “But they have been very supportive, allowing me to live at home working part-time when I started, and without that time to put into videos, none of this would have happened.
“At the start there was a point where I had to convince them that what I am doing is worthwhile: it was a world they didn’t understand when I was starting,” he says.
The book is dedicated to Garrett’s parents, who are involved in his career: his father designed the official Stampy logo, while his mother helps to moderate his Facebook fan page. Your reputation and the way you’re perceived by your fans is so important, and you can’t tarnish that.” “It’s very close to what I’m doing in my videos. “For all the opportunity to take a generic activity book and just Stampy-theme it, that’s not what this is,” he says. Garrett says he was determined to make Stampy’s Lovely Book more than a cash-in. Garrett joins a number of other online stars in the publishing world: last week alone, new books came out from YouTubers Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, Tyler Oakley and Zoe “Zoella” Sugg. Those friends are featured in Garrett’s latest expansion beyond YouTube: a book published by Egmont called Stampy’s Lovely Book, which blends cartoons, quizzes, facts, a cake recipe – cake being a recurring feature in Stampy videos – and tips for budding YouTubers. We’re not just collaborators, we’re friends and you can’t fake that,” says Garrett. We met as friends and got into YouTube together. Pretty much everyone I record with regularly, I knew before I or they were YouTubers. “People like the fact that we’re all just friends.
Those videos are filmed with a group of friends with their own alter-egos: Ballistic Squid, Lee Bear, Sqaishey, Amy Lee, Rosie and Finnball are household names for Minecraft-mad children, if not to the wider world. It’s nice to do that, but then to step away from it again and go back to sitting in a room making videos.” “It’s nice to step into that world and experience it, and I really enjoyed meeting as many fans as I could one-on-one in person. Then it ended, we got on the train home, and nobody looked twice at us!” he says. “We went to Minecon and for a couple of days you pretend you’re a rock star. Yet Minecon also showed the specific nature of the fame Garrett and his fellow YouTubers attract.
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