Karikku
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| Origin | Kochi, India | |||||||||
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| Created by | Nikhil Prasad | |||||||||
| Years active | 2016-present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 3.0 million+[1][lower-alpha 1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 315 million+ | |||||||||
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| Updated 28 July 2019 | ||||||||||
Karikku is an Indian entertainment YouTube channel providing Malayalam-language content, with a subscriber base of over 3 million.[lower-alpha 1] The channel, which uploads its video programs on YouTube and Facebook platforms, is ranked among the top one percent of the YouTube channels in the world where it has clocked over 282 million views. Besides the web series programs such as Thera Para and FIFA World Cup 2018, it also has a number of stand-alone videos in its playlist. The channel has earned silver and gold play buttons from YouTube and received the inaugural Mazhavil Manorama Entertainment Awards in 2019 for original and entertaining content in digital format.
History[edit]
Karikku had its origin in 2016 when Nikhil Prasad, a media personality,[3] started a Facebook page where he uploaded self-made videos.[4] In 2017, he shifted to YouTube platform and a year later, gathered a group of youngsters viz. Sabareesh Sajjin,[5] Anu K. Aniyan,[6][7] Anand Mathews,[8] Binoy John,[9] Jeevan Mammen Stephen,[10] Kiran Viyyath,[11] Unni Mathews[12] and Arjun Ratan,[13] to introduce the channel's first web series, FIFA World Cup 2018, which was based on the football world cup, featuring characters representing football players such as Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Thomas Muller and Harry Kane.[14] The next web series, Thera Para, also featured the same characters created for the earlier series[15] and the series became the first super hit web series in Malayalam language.[13] The channel, in between various web series productions, also produces stand alone videos[16] and celebrities such as Tovino Thomas, Rajisha Vijayan, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Aju Varghese, Saniya Iyappan and Sajna Sudheer have been featured in its productions.[17] It also participates in socio-cultural events and their workshop, Story Telling On Youtube, was a featured event on the second day of the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, organized by Mathrubhumi at Thiruvananthapuram from January 31 to February 3, 2019.[18][19][20] NoxInfluencer, a YouTube analytical service, has rated the channel among the top 1 per cent, both nationally and globally.[21]
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References[edit]
- ↑ "Karikku's Real-Time Subscriber Count - Social Blade YouTube Statistics". socialblade.com. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Perez, Sarah (September 19, 2019). "YouTube overhauls its problematic verification program". Archived from the original on September 19, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Nikhil Prasad". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ "'കരിക്കി'നായി ജോലി ഉപേക്ഷിച്ചു; ഹിറ്റായത് 'തേരാ പാരാ'; പിള്ളേരുടെ എല്ലാമെല്ലാമായി നിഖിൽ" [Quit job for Karikku; Thera Para, a hit; Nikhil becomes kids' favorite]. Manoramanews (in മലയാളം). February 27, 2019. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Sabareesh Sajjin". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Did you know 'Karikku' fame George has played a role in 'Argentina Fans Kattoorkadavu?' - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Anu K. Aniyan". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ "Anand Mathews". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Binoy John". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Jeevan Mammen Stephen". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ "Kiran Viyyath". IMDb. 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ↑ "Unni Mathews". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "These guys are behind the popular online channel Karikku". Malayala Manorama. 16 February 2019. Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Come, let's troll each other say football fans as Karikku depicts interaction". The New Indian Express. 16 July 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "'തേരാ പാരാ' നടത്തമല്ല; കൃത്യമായ പ്ലാനിങ്ങാണ് കരിക്ക്" [It's not a Thera Para wandering; Karikku is precisely planned]. Madhyamam Daily (in മലയാളം). 10 December 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Karikku - videos". YouTube. 2019-05-21. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Schedule - MBIFL 2019 - Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters". www.mbifl.com. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ "കരിക്ക് ഹിറ്റായതിങ്ങനെ: ഷിബുവും ലോലനും ജോജ്ജും ശംഭുവും സംസാരിക്കുന്നു" [How Karikku became a hit - Shibhu, Lolan, George and Shambhu explain]. Mathrubhumi (in മലയാളം). Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mathrubhumi (2019-02-02). "Team Karikku At MBIFL19". Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Karikku YouTube Channel Analytics and Report". www.noxinfluencer.com. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
External links[edit]
- Lua error in Module:Official_website at line 90: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- "IMDb: With Karikku Media (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
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