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Marcus Lloyd Butler 18 December 1991 Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom |
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Residence | West London, United Kingdom | ||||||||
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Years active | 2010–present | ||||||||
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Subscribers | 4.63 million (main channel) 2 million (second channel) |
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Total views | 668 million | ||||||||
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Subscriber and view counts updated as of 29 December 2016. |
Marcus Lloyd Butler (born 18 December 1991) is an English YouTube vlogger from Brighton, known for his eponymous comedy channel "Marcus Butler" (formerly "Marcus Butler TV"). His second channel, MoreMarcus, has daily content varying from vlogs, reaction videos to product testing videos. His third channel, which he no longer uploads on, is MarcusButlerGames. It has since become a running joke on his channel.
Marcus Butler started on YouTube creating music and video mixes and edited sports footage while in college.
In 2010, he created his YouTube channel, Marcus Butler TV, at viewer request. Butler has been involved in a number of collaborations with other YouTubers, including: Jim Chapman, Alfie Deyes, Caspar Lee, Tyler Oakley, Joe Sugg, Zoella, Connor Franta, Lilly Singh, Troye Sivan, ex-girlfriend Niomi Smart, Joey Graceffa, Oli White, Louise Pentland, Conor Maynard and many others.
He was part of the "YouTube Boyband" that raised money for Comic Relief and was featured in The Guardian. The song for Comic Relief was "It's all about You(Tube)".
Butler's book, Hello Life, which is part autobiography and part self-help book, was published on 28 July 2015 in the UK and in the US on 10 November 2015.
As of December 2015[update], Butler's main YouTube channel has over 4.6 million subscribers (4,629,822 as of 25 February 2017) and over 379 million video views, and is the 336th most subscribed channel on YouTube; his second channel "MoreMarcus" has over 2 million subscribers (2,022,063 as of 25 February 2017) and over 260 million video views.