--- title: Marques Brownlee Is on the 2025 TIME100 Creators List description: Find out why Marques Brownlee is one of the 100 most influential digital voices of 2025. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-creators-2025/7299151/marques-brownlee/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-07-09T11:26:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T02:29:54.252Z og:title: Marques Brownlee: TIME100 Creators 2025 og:description: Find out why Marques Brownlee is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-creators-2025/7299151/marques-brownlee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c9d230d4891f584/6998c8151500fb006faa66a5/TIME100-Creators-2025-Marques-Brownlee-018.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Marques Brownlee: TIME100 Creators 2025 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Marques Brownlee: TIME100 Creators 2025 twitter:description: Find out why Marques Brownlee is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c9d230d4891f584/6998c8151500fb006faa66a5/TIME100-Creators-2025-Marques-Brownlee-018.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 09, 2025 # Marques Brownlee @mkbhd by [Shannon Carlin](https://time.com/author/shannon-carlin/) ## Shannon Carlin Carlin is a contributor for TIME.  Mat Hayward—Variety/Getty Images YouTuber [Marques Brownlee’s in-depth reviews](https://time.com/7012892/marques-brownlee/) ofcoveted high-tech gadgets have made him a one-man _Consumer Reports_ for a new generation. The 31-year-old New Jersey native, known professionally as MKBHD (short for his initials and “high-definition”), has a knack for untangling complex tech concepts for a broad audience. Whether the professional ultimate frisbee player turned creator is breaking down the [problem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nKLu2CSxx8) with ultra-thin smartphones or sharing his first impressions of the Nintendo Switch 2 released in June, his 20 million [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/marquesbrownlee) subscribers trust him to do their due diligence for them. And he does it in style, too: Brownlee’s videos—which he began posting back in 2009 as a high-schooler—are as entertaining as they are informative. (Five years into Brownlee’s creator career, Vic Gundotra, then a senior vice president at Google, had anointed him “the best technology reviewer on the planet right now.”) Today, Brownlee, who also hosts the tech [podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@Waveform)_Waveform_, runs one of the most-subscribed gadget-focused channels on YouTube. But he’s no longer just reviewing products—he’s also designing them.As chief creative partner at Ridge, a wallet and accessories company, he recently launched a line of tech gadgets and accessories. _Data and insights powered by #paid_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-creators-2025/7299151/marques-brownlee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-creators-2025/7299151/marques-brownlee/"},"headline":"Marques Brownlee","datePublished":"2025-07-09T11:26:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:29:54.252Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-creators-2025/7299151/marques-brownlee/","keywords":["Social Media","list","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c9d230d4891f584/6998c8151500fb006faa66a5/TIME100-Creators-2025-Marques-Brownlee-018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shannon Carlin","jobTitle":"Carlin is a contributor for TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/shannon-carlin/"}],"creator":"Shannon Carlin","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c9d230d4891f584/6998c8151500fb006faa66a5/TIME100-Creators-2025-Marques-Brownlee-018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-creators-2025/7299151/marques-brownlee/","name":"Marques Brownlee"}}]}] ```