Smosh

Smosh is a YouTube comedy duo consist of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. Their YouTube channel, Smosh, was created on November 19, 2005. As of January 2014, Smosh has over 15.6 million subscribers, making it the 2nd most subscribed channel on YouTube. It also has over 2.92 billion video views.

Biography
Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla are from Sacramento, California. Anthony Padilla created the website smosh.com in 2002. It was created as a social network for Anthony and Ian to chat with their friends. The name smosh was conceived when Padilla mistook a friend explaining a mosh pit, as a "smosh pit". It became an inside joke among their friends. In early 2003, he created several flash movies on Newgrounds.com. Soon his friend, Ian Hecox, joined him. Padilla and Hecox first met in their sixth grade science class. They became friends and quickly discovered their knack for comedy.

2005
Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox created the YouTube channel smosh on November 19, 2005. Their first videos consist of lip syncing to theme songs such as Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pokemon. In Novemeber 2005, Smosh released one of their earliest breakthrough videos, Pokémon Theme Music Video. It followed the same style as their other earlier videos, featuring the duo lip-synching the original English theme song for the Pokémon anime. However, the video instantly became much more popular than any of their other videos. It had 24.7 million views, becoming the most-viewed video on all of YouTube at that time. It held that title for about six months, but was removed by YouTube after the website received a copyright infringement notice from Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.

2006 - Present
Over the course of the next few years, Smosh began to diversify. They started making short YouTube skits, such as their annual video series Food Battle and That Damn Neighbor. Smosh continued to grow in popularity and became one the most subscribed channels on YouTube. In 2010 Smosh launched 3 different Smosh-based web series: Ian is Bored, which started as a collection of comedic videos by Hecox, but then turned primarily into Smosh opening fan mail segments called Mail Time with Smosh, Ask Charlie (which is an interactive series where people ask Charlie, from their January 2010 Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig video, random questions) ran from May 2010 to December 2011 and Lunchtime with Smosh, a comedy series featuring Smosh getting and eating food from various places, and answering Twitter questions from their fans on Twitter. Some of Smosh's most popular video series include Pokemon in Real Life and If ____ Was Real. In 2011 Smosh was acquired by Alloy Digital. In 2012 the duo started three new YouTube channels, El Smosh, with Smosh videos dubbed in Spanish, Shut Up! Cartoons, with various animated videos, and SmoshGames with gaming related content hosted alongside Mari, Lasercorn, Sohinki, and Jovenshire. In 2012, Smosh was featured as guests on Ask A Naked Guy. Hecox and Padilla have also provided guest voices on the machinima series Red vs. Blue. In January 2013, the Smosh channel surpassed Ray William Johnson in subscribers.

Smosh
Smosh is Ian and Anthony's main channel. Most of their scripted shows are posted on this channel. New videos are posted every Friday. As of August 2013, Smosh has over 11.7 million subscribers. It is the most subscribed channel on YouTube.

Smosh 2nd Channel
Smosh's 2nd channel features vlog and other non-scripted videos along with shows hosted by Smosh associate Mari Takahashi. As of August 2013, IanH (Smosh 2nd Channel) has over 3 million subscribers. It is the 61st most subscribed channel on YouTube.

Smosh Games
Smosh Games is smosh and friends' gaming channel. Prior to the creation of SmoshGames, Hecox and Padilla would upload video game commentary and gameplay videos on their 2nd channel. On September 26, 2012, Smosh announced the creation of their gaming channel, Smosh Games. They promised about 12 videos per week from Ian, Anthony and 4 other content creators. As of August 2013, Smosh Games has over 3 million subscribers. It is the 64th most subscribed channel on YouTube.

Shut Up! Cartoons
Shut Up! Cartoons features, created by Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla and Barry Blumberg, is a channel that features animated shows. Shut Up! Cartoons launched on April 30, 2012 with Do's and Dont's.

El Smosh
El Smosh is smosh's Spanish language channel. It features smosh's videos dubbed in Spanish. The Smosh Pit Weekly becomes the El Smosh Pit de la Semana.

AnthonyPadilla
AnthonyPadilla is Anthony Padilla's personal channel. He uploads vlog videos on it.

WatchUsLiveAndStuff
WatchUsLiveAndStuff is Anthony Padilla and his fiancée Kalel's vlog channel.

Website
In 2009, Smosh prepared a massive redesign of Smosh.com, added a games section, and put extras in the video section. In January 2010, Smosh launched the "Smosh Pit" feature, a blog that consists of various pieces of pop-culture trivia, and written comedy.

In early 2010, Smosh created the "iShut Up App" for Android phones as part of a Google sponsorship.

Some of Smosh's most popular videos are video-game themed music videos. These songs (along with other original songs) have been released in 3 albums to date - Sexy Album (2010), If Music Were Real (2011) and Smoshtastic (2012).

Smosh released Super Head Esploder X, a video game for iPads, iPhones, and iPods, in February 2013 and in July 2013 started an Indiegogo campaign for an iOS and PC game, Food Battle: The Game. Hecox and Padilla hope to raise $250,000 to hire video game producers to create a game based on their characters and the foods used in their annual Food Battle series.

Trivia

 * In an interview, Ian and Anthony said that the longest time they took in editing a video without sleep was 36 hours in editing their Food Battle 2009 video. They swore they would never do it again.


 * Smosh has been the most subscribed channel on YouTube 3 times.


 * Smosh's first time as #1 most subscribed was in May of 2006. they were beat by Judsonlaipply only a month later. In April of 2007 after they beat lonelygirl15 to reclaim their spot, but then was beat by Fred in October 2008. Smosh then beat Ray William Johnson in January of 2013, but then was beaten by PewDiePie on August 15th, 2013.