Background and career
Marques Keith Brownlee ( mar-KEZ BROWN-lee; born December 3, 1993), known professionally as MKBHD, is an American influencer, tech reviewer, postcaster and professional ultimate frisbee player, best known for his YouTube videos reviewing technology devices.
In 2013, Vic Gundotra, a former senior vice president of Google, called Brownlee "the best technology reviewer on the planet right now". At the 10th Shorty Awards in 2018, he was named "Creator of the Decade". The username of his YouTube channel is a concatenation of MKB (Brownlee's initials) and HD (for high definition). As of 2025, he has more than 20 million subscribers across all channels and billions of total video views.
With New York PoNY, Brownlee is the 2022 WFDF World Champion in the Open Category for ultimate Frisbee. In 2024, Time magazine named him to its "TIME100 Most Influential People in AI" list.
Brownlee joined YouTube on March 21, 2008. He first started uploading videos in January 2009, while still in high school, about new products or reviews of products he already owned. He produced his first videos through screencasting.
Review sites have promoted Brownlee's reviews. Engadget promoted the site in January 2012 when they featured his tour of the then-new cloud storage service called Insync. In November 2013, one of Brownlee's most viral videos was posted based on the LG G Flex, where he performed various scratch tests to demonstrate the self-healing ability of the device. In December 2013, Brownlee did an interview with Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside.
