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Daniel Scott Zahller Brown (born May 15, 1990) is an American vlogger, under the YouTube alias Pogobat. Brown has been noted in the media for his newly and widely viewed self-made videos, focusing mainly on how-to videos as well as current events discussion and comedy.

Dan Brown is also the founder of the Pogopalooza - the annual world championship of the sport of stunt pogo - which he founded at the age of 14.

Pogobat

Brown has been vloging on his YouTube channel, pogobat, since Dec 22, 2006. He is most famously known for his video on how to solve a Rubik's Cube. Now Brown vlogs regularly, talking about things that he finds interesting, or things that his viewers (whom he calls the pogotribe) suggest. He has almost 290,000 subscribers and over 97,000,000 video views making him one of the top 100 directors on YouTube.

Pogopalooza

Pogopalooza is the annual world championship of stunt pogo. The first Pogopalooza was hosted by Dan Brown when he was 14 years old in Lincoln, Nebraska 2004. Since then pogopalooza has been held seven times. In the pogopalooza contestants compete for prizes such as Big Air, Best Trick, and High jump events. they also include most jumps per minute, least jumps per minute (the Idea of least jumps per minute is that the highest jumpers can jump fewer amounts of time)and best acrobatic stunts(which are Judged).

On August 2, 2010, Dan launched a project entitled "Dan 3.0," in which viewers would suggest tasks for him to complete, and therefore the viewer would run his life. On April 1, 2011, Dan quit the project for personal reasons, and moved on to vlog/news show "Delicious Steak," which originally aired from July 12, 2011-May 6, 2012. On May 6, 2012 Dan released a video called "The Last Episode Of Delicious Steak", in which he explained that he is no longer committed to a "show", but rather making videos as a hobby.

Fuse

Dan currently has a job at Fuse, as an interviewer and media personality.

Personal life

Dan grew up in a Christian household, his mother, Rebecca Zahller Brown, is a pastor with the East Lincoln Christian Church. He has three brothers. He dated a woman named Danielle for a little over a year, from late 2009 to late 2010. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska during his childhood, then in San Francisco for Dan 3.0, and now lives in New York City for his Fuse job. He briefly attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but dropped out to primarily focus on his YouTube career.

References

External links

• Dan Brown's channel on YouTube
• Winners Announced for Second Annual YouTube Video Awards
• Dan 3.0 at Revision3