Jenna Marbles

About

Jenna Marbles is the pseudonym of Jenna Mourey, a YouTube^[1] celebrity, comedian and go-go dancer who came to fame after starring in a viral video during the summer of 2010. She is managed by the Los Angeles-based firm The Cloud Media^[2] known for representing YouTube celebrities MysteryGuitarMan and Tay Zonday.

Online History

On YouTube

Jenna created her "JennaMarbles"^[1] YouTube channel on February 16th, 2010. Her channel remained fairly unknown until July 9th, 2010 when she uploaded a video titled "How to trick people into thinking you're good looking." The video has accumulated 22,790,855 views as of August 24th, 2011.

Her YouTube vlog channel JennaMarblesVlog^[5] was created on February 8th, 2011. Since the launch of her original YouTube channel, she receives an average of 211,508 views per day as of September 2nd, 2011.

Spread

The domain for her website jennamarblesblog.com^[3] was registered on April 7th, 2011.^[4] Her Twitter^[7] account has 219,136 followers, and her Facebook fan page^[6] has 534,686 likes as of September 2nd, 2011. The "Jenna Marbles Flog"^[9] fan made Tumblr page was created on June 18th, 2011.

IAmA Thread

On July 21st, 2011, Jenna posted an IAmA thread^[8] to the social news site Reddit that received 321 up votes. The top voted comment asked if she earns any money from YouTube to which she responded:

I do earn money from YouTube. I make enough to have it be my full time job currently which is awesome. The actual amount that I make varies, it depends on how many people watch/subscribe/click on ads each month, and no I'm not making in the millions of dollars here. My current rank on Youtube is like #87, Phillip Defranco is #13 but also has several other channels that were until recently even bigger than my main channel just to give you an idea, he has like over half a billion total views. Good thing about my videos is my "production cost" is like buying a wig if necessary.

Personal Life

Originally from Rochester, New York, Mourey moved to Boston in 2003 where she received a BS in Psychology at Suffolk University, and a Masters degree in Sport Psychology from Boston University.
Her favorite movies are listed on her YouTube page^[1] as "Airplane, The Jerk, anything Will Ferrel or Saturday Night Live" and her favorite books as "Prelude To a Super Airplane and all other books by Brian Spaeth." She owns a chihuahua named Mr. Marbles, and an Italian greyhound named Kermit.

Notable Videos

Media Appearances

Search

Search queries for "jenna marbles" and "jenna mourey" had their first spike in July of 2010, the same month her "How to trick people into thinking you're good looking" was uploaded to YouTube.

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