Corey Vidal (born December 7, 1986) is a Canadian YouTube content creator and entrepreneur.
[3] His channel career spans dancing, singing, playing musical instruments, beatboxing, acting in skits and short films (including a short film production by Niagara College), solving Rubik's Cubes, video blogging, and collaborating with other YouTubers.
[4] In May 2009, Vidal released a 33-part interactive choose-your-own-adventure-style video as part of a collaboration with Blendtec,[3] the company behind Will It Blend?.
[5] Corey first gained national Canadian media attention in the summer of 2008 when he was announced as the host[6] of the 888 YouTube Gathering that took place August 8, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
[7] Corey hosted a one-hour show featuring many of YouTube's most popular "cewebrities",[8] including KevJumba, HappySlip, Dave Days, Charles Trippy, Shay Carl, Philip DeFranco, and more.
Corey Vidal launched a second, daily-vlogging YouTube channel on January 1, 2011, called "ApprenticeEh", where he and the staff members of his company recorded and shared their lives every day.
[11] ApprenticeA Productions partnered with Shay Carl to produce Vlogumentary, a feature-length documentary film about online video fame.
[17] It faced competition in its category from other viral videos such as Barack Roll, Fred Goes Swimming, Where the Hell is Matt?
The first claim came from Warner Music Group in April 2008 over the use of Madonna's song 4 Minutes in one of his hip hop dance videos.
Vidal fought Warner with an official DMCA counter-claim, filed through YouTube's copyright system.
[19] In mid-January 2009, Corey's Star Wars A Cappella video was removed from YouTube due to a DMCA copyright infringement claim by Warner Music Group.