JUSTINE EZARIK

Place of birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Places lived: Pittsburgh

Justine Ezarik, 25, is best known as iJustine, a lifecaster who communicated directly with her thousands of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, ijustine.

In December 2006, she was named one of five finalists in the “Yahoo! Talent Show”, a Yahoo! sponsored competition for best online videos, finishing second to Rex Hermogino, who won the US$50,000 prize In April 2007, Ezarik made a one-day guest appearance on Justin.

Her reality-video blog was the first one launched on Justin.tv. Kan had been encouraged by fans and followers to allow someone else to make a guest appearance on his lifecasting channel.

On May 31, 2007, she explained how her initial contact with Kan and his team led to her lifecasting channel to Asher Moses of The Sydney Morning Herald.

Justine, was a freelance graphic and web designer from Pittsburgh, said the camera-equipped baseball cap – and the legions of fans watching online – would follow her almost everywhere, except on visits to the bathroom.

Ten days after its initial posting, the video had been viewed more than 3 million times on the Internet, and had received international news coverage.

The video earned Ezarik a $5,000 payout from the video hosting service Revver. After the publicity surrounding the bills, especially Ezarik’s, and their formats, AT&T announced that bills subsequent to September 28, 2007 would be default to a summary format, with detail provided upon request for a fee.

Ezarik was also featured in the August 28, 2007 weekly installment of Kevin Sites’ People of the Web series on Yahoo! News along with Justin Kan, the creator of Justin.TV.

The same article estimated that she has been viewed on YouTube a total of 64 million times and that her spoof on the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” drew 4.8 million viewers.

She knows the web, can video edit and runs her own successful blog, vlog and social media profiles – she’s a geek’s wet dream

“I just watched it a few minutes ago and I almost cried! It was so amazing! I can’t thank you guys enough for that tasty little treat.”

“One of the cool features about leaving voice posts is you can also listen to new audio clips from your friends right on your phone! You can also set your account to automically post to your blog, tumblr, and twitter.”