Ponk (YouTube)
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| language | German |
| founding | 2012 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| channels | Ponk |
| Subscribers | over 431,000 |
| Calls | over 91,500,000 |
| Videos | 389 |
| network | Mediakraft Networks |
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Ponk was a YouTube channel that regularly published comedy videos through October 31, 2014 . The channel was launched on October 22, 2012 as the first original YouTube channel in Germany by Mediakraft Networks and produced by its subsidiary Kultframe . Ponk stands for “perfectly oriented new comedians”.
Story, concept
The concept for Ponk was developed by Philipp Laude ( Y-Titty ) , among others . After just one month, the channel had 100,000 subscribers, the number of which rose to almost half a million during the channel's heyday.
The production in a specially formed shared apartment became the model for many other Youtuber shared apartments and ran with different line-ups for two years. Comedy videos were published on the channel up to five times a week, most of which were produced by the members of the Ponk WG with the support of editors, editors and speakers employed by Mediakraft. The actual Ponk flat share was on the 6th floor of an office building rented by Mediakraft in Cologne. In addition to the mostly present WG members, other Youtubers such as TC , iBlali and The Clavinover appeared in numerous episodes . Pop singer Roberto Blanco and stand-up comedian Luke Mockridge also had guest appearances . Some guests such as B. Petty ( Ooobacht ) and Maxi Gstettenbauer were present over several episodes. Despite the considerable number of viewers at times and around 7 million views per month, the production, which is very complex for YouTube standards, was not economically successful. On October 31, 2014, the last video was released on the channel and production ceased.
On August 29, 2013, Mediakraft started an adaptation of the Ponk concept in the Netherlands under the channel name Ponkers . A Polish version was launched on September 1, 2014. Both formats are still in production today and have now exceeded the number of views of the German original.
Ponk also acted temporarily as the umbrella brand of Mediakraft Networks for comedy (now Comedynet ).
Members
When it was founded in 2012, Andre Schiebler, Cengiz Dogrul, Jan Christoph Meyer , Julian "Julez" Weißbach and Lucrezia "Lucy" Phantazia moved into the Ponk flat share.
In the YouPonk episode of March 30, 2013, Lucrezia Phantazia announced that she would no longer be part of the shared apartment. In the future, however, she will be involved in other video productions as a guest actress or dancer. As his successor, Joyce Ilg joined the Ponk WG in April 2013. But she did not move into the actual apartment herself.
On May 22, 2013, the ApeCrime members, who were often absent in the previous episodes, announced that they wanted to invest more time in their increasingly successful own channel and therefore reduced their involvement and appearance in Ponk. At the same time it was announced on Ponk's Facebook page that the ApeCrime members were moving out of the Ponk flat share. On October 3, 2013, Julian "Julez" Weißbach announced in the Street Ponk episode that he would no longer take part in Ponk.
While working for Ponk was the springboard to a career as a YouTube star for many cast members such as Joyce Ilg and Julez, the success of the channel suffered considerably from the departure of the popular first line-up with ApeCrime. After the monthly video views dropped to the one million mark in January 2014, there was a relaunch with new members, which in the short term once again led to a slight increase in video views. However, it did not bring about the expected sustainable change.
On October 31, 2014, Sebastian ("RedJacketMan") and Marc ("Dr. Cock") announced the official end of Ponk.
Founding members
- Cengiz Dogrul (YouTuber at ApeCrime ; member until May 2013)
- Jan Christoph Meyer (YouTuber at ApeCrime; member until May 2013)
- Lucrezia Phantazia (actress, member until March 2013)
- Andre Schiebler (YouTuber at ApeCrime; member until May 2013)
- Julian "Julez" Weißbach (YouTuber; member until October 2013)
Other members
- Joyce Ilg (April 2013 to December 2013)
- Alex Cheng Loew (until December 2013)
- Martina "Barbie" Lackner (until December 2013)
- Sebastian " C-Bas " (until December 2013)
- Alexander " AlexiBexi " Böhm (March 2014 to June 2014 for KutterPonk)
- Torge " Freshtorge " Oelrich (March 2014 to June 2014 for KutterPonk)
Last team
Most recently, Ponk no longer had a "large" permanent cast. Marc and Sebastian worked out formats and concepts and tried to win over other Youtubers for them. Many guest appearances shaped the TravelPonk format, which was launched at the turn of the year 2013/14 .
- "RedJacketMan" Sebastian Weimar (since February 2013, since September 2013 also in front of the camera)
- "Dr. Cock "Marc (since the beginning as a cameraman, since September 2013 also in front of the camera)
- "Ponk-Cutter" Antonio (cutter)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Socialblade Statistics , accessed March 8, 2020
- ↑ The Ponk YouTube channel is running , kurier.at , October 22, 2012
- ↑ a b Kathrin Hollmer: "Damn it again to be funny" , Jetzt.de , October 22, 2012
- ↑ Comedy channel "Ponk" starts on YouTube. In: Bild.de. October 23, 2012, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Sidney Gennies: Youtube starts attack on television. In: Tagesspiegel.de. October 22, 2012, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- ^ Jens Minor: First German themed channel on YouTube: Ponk. In: GoogleWatchBlog.de.de. October 22, 2012, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Y-TITTY Phil explains his new project "Ponk" . promiflash.de. November 14, 2012. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ↑ Oliver Lesting: Did the original YouTube channels fail? , broadmark.de , October 10, 2015
- ↑ Chronicle . Mediakraft Networks . October 1, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ↑ a b Julian Banse: Böhmermann: “… move into a Youtuber flat share!” In: Broadmark.de. October 6, 2014, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- ↑ YouTube networks: Y-Titty's secret pullers . siegel.de. March 7, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ↑ First German themed channel starts on YouTube . heise.de. October 2, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ↑ Eike Kühl: The German original YouTube channels (Part 1). In: Zeit.de. October 28, 2012, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Sendertime merges with Ponk and Youmedy . broadmark.de. November 1, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ↑ All the best, Lucrezia
- ↑ Ponk: Fresh meat at Ponk (YouTube video)
- ↑ Ponk: Got a basket from Heidi Klum! (YouTube video)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/dieponks/posts/306616496138596
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/dieponks/posts/363152710484974
- ↑ One year of original channels: How YouTube works . Oddsmeter.de. November 29, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ↑ Socialblade Statistics , accessed July 11, 2016
- ↑ That was PONK! , Video from October 31, 2014, YouTube.com, accessed July 11, 2016
- ^ A b c ApeCrime's YouTube channel
- ↑ Julez's Farewell , video from October 3, 2013, YouTube.com, accessed October 3, 2013
- ↑ Sebastian's Instagram account
- ↑ Marc's YouTube channel
