Caitlin Hill
| Caitlin Hill | |
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| Born |
Caitlin Alexandra Hill 8 September 1988 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 16 August 2006– 2015 |
| Known for | Comedy, vlogging, lip-sync |
| Website | www.thehill88.com |
| Internet information | |
| Web alias(es) |
TheHill88, ThatGirlOnline |
| Web hosting service(s) | YouTube, BlogTV |
Caitlin Alexandra Hill (born 8 September 1988) is an Australian YouTube personality under the name TheHill88. She produces, edits and uploads her videos from her home in Brisbane, and since 2008 from New York City.
Dubbed "the goofy princess of cyberspace" by Australia's version of 60 Minutes, Hill maintains a channel on YouTube. Her videos have a cumulative view count of over 17 million.
In addition to maintaining a channel on YouTube, Hill is the Chief Creative Officer of Hitviews, a website and new media business venture, which she co-founded with Walter Sabo. The site allows marketers direct access to internet celebrities such as Kevin Nalty and Cory Williams. Bob Weinstein is among the site's investors.
Hill submitted her first video to YouTube 16 August 2006, as a fan response to popular web serial lonelygirl15. A day later, Hill began to assemble fans of her own upon uploading Re: LonelyGirl: Lazydork is Better Than You (posted 17 August 2006), a video response to YouTube comedian Richard Stern, received over 1,000,000 views before September 2006. Described by The Age as "cheesy rap", YouTube featured the video and her 14 short videos collectively received over 4,000,000 views.
She has credited Zach Braff, Brooke Brodack and Bree, a lonelygirl15 character played by Jessica Rose, for inspiring her to join the YouTube community.
After sustaining a sizable viewership on YouTube for nearly a year, Hill became one of the first twenty to thirty YouTube users to join the YouTube partnership program in May 2007. This status gives the user "the ability to share in ad revenue".
In September 2007, Hill announced on her MySpace blog that 2007 would be her last year in the partnership program, stating:
By October 2007, YouTube no longer listed Hill as a revenue sharing partner.
In addition to her own output, Hill plays a recurring role in Choose Your Own Tube, a YouTube serial produced and directed by Remi Broadway.
In July 2007, she featured in 'Disgrace', a music-video created by the band Coldstone.
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