DFTBA Records: founding of Hank and Alan's label for YouTube musicians (2008)
stage · status: milestone
About: DFTBA Records, Alan Lastufka
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-11-24 | launch | Hank announces that he and Alan are starting a record label, DFTBA Records, to help YouTube musicians produce and distribute music, with its first artists signed. | DFTBA Records 00:00:53 |
| 2009-09-30 | milestone | DFTBA Records videos hold the YouTube front page, with new artists Rhett and Link and Alex Day's album release. | DFTBA TAKEOVER!!! 00:00:00 |
| 2010-05-17 | retro | Hank notes YouTube's community timeline features his and Alan's video announcing DFTBA Records. | My YouTube Story is Short 00:00:56 |
| 2011-01-06 | milestone | Hank announces DFTBA Records has just launched a new version of its website. | Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job 00:03:43 |
| 2011-11-29 | retro | Marking DFTBA Records' third anniversary, Hank recalls deciding with Alan to found it so YouTube creators could make a living without selling pieces of their soul. | Stuffed with STUFF! 00:01:57 |
| 2012-09-25 | retro | John recalls that Hank and Alan Lastufka started DFTBA Records in 2008 to give YouTube musicians most of the album proceeds, which worked really well. | Do Businesses Need to Suck? 00:00:29 |
| 2012-11-24 | retro | Hank says it is DFTBA's fourth anniversary of being a company, celebrated with $4 shipping within the US this weekend. | Black Friday: An Accident of History 00:02:08 |
| 2013-02-19 | milestone | John reports DFTBA Records has taken over an abandoned nursery school in Missoula and is bigger than ever. | Doing Things, On the Importance of 00:01:39 |