Adam Martyn

***Adam Martyn*** is an English YouTuber, actor and singer who is the creator of the Adam Martyn YouTube channel. Adam's vary from comedy to reviewing things (such as TV idents, Public Information Films, and episodes of TV shows such as Adam's favourite show *Doctor Who*). He is also an actor for stage and recently appeared in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story, *Red Darkness*.

## History

Despite being British, Adam was born in Singapore. After spending a year and a half there, the Martyns moved to Belgium in the middle of 1997. Adam went to nursery in the capital Brussels. The nursery was full of people from different parts of the world, and so they celebrated events you wouldn't normally celebrate in a British nursery such as Independence Day (4th of July). The Martyns moved out of Belgium in September of 2000 in favour of the UK, and just one month later Adam started school in October. In school, Adam realised his love for acting after reprising the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in a condensed version of *A Christmas Carol* by Charles Dickens in December 2006. Opening night went well and the acting bug had bit Adam, he was hooked.

Adam picked his two favourite subjects for GCSE's History and Drama. Right around when Adam joined sixth form in 2012, he created his YouTube channel on the 27th of September then known as *theloudmouth37*. The first video was Doctor Who Collection video filmed on a Samsung Galaxy S2 with the flashlight on, without any editing added to it. Adam stuck to mainly collection videos, but tried some other content such as singing videos and weird stuff like lip-syncing to random songs. May of 2014 rolled around and Adam's final A level exams were round the corner and he didn't upload during his exam or after it in fact.

Seven months later, in December of 2014. Adam posted a video called *Back in the Game!* where he stated he would be back to his normal content but only a few uploads happened before the channel fell silent again. On the 22nd of May 2015, Adam uploaded an update entitled *Welcome Back! - An Explanation* where he explained that due to his dedication of 9-12 hours of LIPA and the fact he went in on Weekends, he couldn't upload as much. After his third return video in March of 2016, things started to pick up a bit as Adam tried to balance his uploading schedule with his LIPA schedule. In August 2016, Adam uploaded a video entitled *A Brief History - The 5 UK Terrestrial Channels (BBC1, ITV, BBC2, Channel 4 and Channel 5)* which changed his channel forever, becoming more of a documentary based style of video. At this time, Adam changed his YouTube channel name to his full name, Adam Martyn.

Two of his most popular videos were uploaded in October of 2016, one of them being *Disney-Pixar DVD Collection (COMPLETE)* and other being *BBC2 Idents - 1991 to 2001*. Content was coming on a semi-regular basis and in 2017, it was Adam's final year of studying at LIPA so his content became more experimental with new series being created and some of them being axed off. Included in the batch of cancelled series are, *A Brief Review*, *The DVD Haul*, *The Dr. Men Series*, and *The Closedown Compilations*. A series which has stayed on channel and has not been cancelled, more or less just ran it's corse is *The Sunday Catch Up*, which to this day has produced exactly 100 episodes. After the sixth episode, the series went quiet but was then revived on the 1st of April 2018 with Episode 7: *guess this is back...* with it however not being an April Fools joke. By episode 10, the Q&A section was introduced with the episode prior asking the viewers to leave their questions.

Another hit for the channel was *Millionaire Moments*, a series where Adam compiles a series of winners from *Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?* and even stuff from the American version. One game from the USA in particular, the Kevin Smith game, awarded Adam nearly 3 million views. The only reason that this could happen is that the YouTube algorithm picked it up randomly and placed it in people's recommended. Adam, at this point, had a working job and could finally maintain an upload schedule which of course never stayed the same but at the time it was what he could manage. 2018's new series would consist of: *Three Quick Facts* and *Through the Dragon's Eye*. But there were three other series' that Adam had created in 2018 and got really popular, these were of course *The NOW Review*, *Video Scaries* and *The Ident Review*.

The following year in 2019, Adam decided to make new shows, this included *After These Messages*, *The HITS Review* and *Overthinking*. By December, Adam had a tough decision to make. During the month he was performing in *The Polar Express Train Ride* show at the Wensleydale Railway. Did he announce the fact or there being no videos in December due to a busy acting schedule? Or did he take the insane option and upload everyday in December for a whole month? Adam decided to take the insane option. Amongst the uploads would be new series, existing series and so good old political memes for the festive break. Remarkably, he did it. A whole month of daily uploads which proved that Adam COULD maintain a consistant upload schedule, but due to his acting career that wouldn't be the case anytime soon.

Adam was cast in a lead role in the musical *No Horizon* which was set to tour in March and April of 2020. Adam announced the slow pace of videos during a Sunday Catch Up and sometimes no videos at all. Unfortunately, two days before the big show, the news came of the COVID-19 pandemic which prevented any live show throughout the world to be played out at all as it was deemed 'unsafe'. Adam comes home preparing for the nationwide lockdown throughout the UK and decided to premiere a brand new series for everyone to enjoy. This show would be the infamous spinoff to *The Ident Review*, *The Ident Review Extra*.