{{short description|American YouTube channel}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{infobox youtuber | name = Colin and Samir | image = 110px 110px | caption = Rosenblum (left) and Chaudry (right) in 2025 | birth_date = {{Unbulleted list |Colin Rosenblum|{{birth date and age|1989|1|31}}<br>Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |<hr/>Samir Chaudry|{{birth date and age|1989|8|17}}<br>Santa Monica, California, U.S.}} | website = {{URL|https://www.colinandsamir.com/}} | youtube_handle = ColinandSamir | youtube_display_name = Colin and Samir | youtube_years_active = 2016–present | youtube_genre = {{flatlist| *Podcast *business}} | youtube_subscribers = 1.62 million<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | youtube_views = 453.5 million<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | stats_update = 3 May 2026 }}
'''Colin and Samir''' is an American YouTube channel composed of American entrepreneurs '''Colin Rosenblum''' (born January 31, 1989) and '''Samir Chaudry''' (born August 17, 1989). The duo interview creators on their podcast, '''''The Colin and Samir Show''''', about their rise and give advice supporting up-and-coming channels, breaking down the industry.<ref name="ifeanyi">{{Cite web |last=Ifeanyi |first=Kc |date=2023-12-11 |title=There could be a creator economy campus coming to a city near you |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90995030/creator-economy-campus-whalar-lighthouse-colin-samir |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427221702/https://www.fastcompany.com/90995030/creator-economy-campus-whalar-lighthouse-colin-samir |archive-date=April 27, 2025 |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Fast Company |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="mean">{{Cite web |last=Ifeanyi |first=Kc |date=2024-01-17 |title=Colin and Samir made a 30-day course for creators who mean business |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91008575/colin-samir-30-day-creator-startup-course-kajabi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427221603/https://www.fastcompany.com/91008575/colin-samir-30-day-creator-startup-course-kajabi |archive-date=April 27, 2025 |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Fast Company |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Early life== Colin Rosenblum was born on January 31, 1989, in Princeton, New Jersey.<ref name="ig">{{Cite web |last=Rosenblum |first=Colin |date=2021-01-31 |title=Turned 32 today 😏 |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CKuQvUugcUn/?img_index=2 |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Instagram}}</ref> He attended Hun School of Princeton and graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with degrees in Economics and Italian.<ref name="maxpreps">{{Cite web |title=Colin Rosenblum's Hun High School Bio |url=https://www.maxpreps.com/nj/princeton/hun-raiders/athletes/colin-rosenblum/?careerid=rsuu7vcpqluh1 |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=MaxPreps |language=en}}</ref><ref name="mcla">{{Cite web |title=2009 Roster {{!}} Colorado Buffaloes |url=https://mcla.us/teams/colorado/2009/roster |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=MCLA |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="devore">{{Cite web |last=DeVore |first=Treyton |date=2021-09-26 |title=Colin & Samir: From Lacrosse to Leaders of the Creator Economy |url=https://www.creatorbread.com/blog/colin-samir-from-lacrosse-to-leaders-of-the-creator-economy |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Creatorbread |archive-date=June 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250615152659/https://www.creatorbread.com/blog/colin-samir-from-lacrosse-to-leaders-of-the-creator-economy |url-status=live }}</ref> Samir Chaudry was born on August 17, 1989, in Santa Monica, California.<ref name="30th">{{Cite web |last=Chaudry |first=Samir |date=2019-08-17 |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B1QbQeeDdJM/?img_index=2 |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Instagram}}</ref> His parents were refugees from the Partition of India.<ref name="yeung"/> He attended Harvard-Westlake School and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012, studying Film and Digital Media. Both played lacrosse for their high school and college teams.<ref name="wilson">{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Connor |date=2012-07-06 |title=Fireside Chat with Samir Chaudry of The Lacrosse Network |url=https://laxallstars.com/fireside-chat-with-samir-chaudry-of-the-lacrosse-network/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Lacrosse All Stars |language=en-US |archive-date=August 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808013203/https://laxallstars.com/fireside-chat-with-samir-chaudry-of-the-lacrosse-network/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="story">{{Cite web |date=2019-02-10 |title=The Story of Colin and Samir |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk4KG9Vc2Hs |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=YouTube |archive-date=March 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250314072202/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk4KG9Vc2Hs |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Career== Rosenblum and Chaudry started making videos on YouTube since 2012, but they created their current channel in September 2016.<ref name="story"/> Chaudry initially had the idea to create a sports network, eventually creating The Lacrosse Network (TLN) in 2012. Meanwhile, in Boulder, Colorado, Rosenblum was also making videos about lacrosse while simultaneously working at the front desk of a hotel. Chaudry watched some of Rosenblum's videos and was able to convince him to move to Los Angeles to join TLN, originally as a three-month internship. They became friends, however, and built a relationship that caused Rosenblum to move completely to Los Angeles.<ref name="devore"/> TLN was bought by the multi-channel network Whistle Sports in June 2014.<ref name="spangler">{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2014-06-04 |title=YouTube Sports MCN The Whistle Acquires The Lacrosse Network (Exclusive) |url=https://variety.com/2014/digital/news/youtube-sports-mcn-the-whistle-acquires-the-lacrosse-network-exclusive-1201212278/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=April 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250408120746/https://variety.com/2014/digital/news/youtube-sports-mcn-the-whistle-acquires-the-lacrosse-network-exclusive-1201212278/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="gp">{{Cite web |last=Garber-Paul |first=Elisabeth |date=2022-05-02 |title=Creating Is Lonely. Colin and Samir Are Helping to Change That |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/colin-and-samir-youtube-interview-1342517/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203183010/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/colin-and-samir-youtube-interview-1342517/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The duo left TLN in 2016 to pursue filmmaking.<ref name="story"/>
The duo appeared on Paul Rabil's Suiting Up podcast in November 2017.<ref name="rabil">{{Cite web |last=Rabil |first=Paul |date=2017-11-27 |title=Samir Chaudry and Colin Rosenblum Suiting Up with Paul Rabil |url=https://laxallstars.com/samir-chaudry-colin-rosenblum-paul-rabil/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Lacrosse All Stars |language=en-US |archive-date=December 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241207204947/https://laxallstars.com/samir-chaudry-colin-rosenblum-paul-rabil/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, they became a year-long brand ambassador for Samsung.<ref name="peterson">{{Cite web |last=Peterson |first=Tim |date=2022-04-12 |title=How YouTube stars Colin and Samir went from nearly quitting to creating their own media company |url=https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/how-youtube-stars-colin-and-samir-went-from-nearly-quitting-to-creating-their-own-media-company/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Digiday |language=en-US |archive-date=April 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428061626/https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/how-youtube-stars-colin-and-samir-went-from-nearly-quitting-to-creating-their-own-media-company/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''The Colin and Samir Show'' became available on LinkedIn in 2022.<ref name="gutelle">{{Cite web |last=Gutelle |first=Sam |date=2022-06-13 |title=Colin and Samir look to "support the growth of more careers" by bringing their podcast to LinkedIn |url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/06/13/colin-and-samir-show-linkedin-podcast-network/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Tubefilter |language=en-US |archive-date=September 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923010646/https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/06/13/colin-and-samir-show-linkedin-podcast-network/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2022, at the video marketing conference VidSummit, the channel hit 1 million subscribers while they were onstage speaking.<ref name="hale">{{Cite web |last=Hale |first=James |date=2022-12-22 |title=YouTube Millionaires: Colin and Samir hit one million subscribers onstage at VidSummit |url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/12/22/youtube-millionaires-colin-samir/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Tubefilter |language=en-US |archive-date=March 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250308143114/https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/12/22/youtube-millionaires-colin-samir/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2025, the duo interviewed Mark Zuckerberg about his projects at Meta Platforms. MrBeast also appeared in the same interview.<ref name="lalwani">{{Cite web |last=Lalwani |first=Andy |date=2025-03-27 |title=Facebook is Bringing The Magic of Friends Back to Platform with Colin and Samir and Even MrBeast |url=https://whatstrending.com/facebook-is-bringing-the-magic-of-friends-back-to-platform-with-colin-and-samir-and-even-mrbeast/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=What's Trending |language=en-US |archive-date=April 24, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250424123210/https://whatstrending.com/facebook-is-bringing-the-magic-of-friends-back-to-platform-with-colin-and-samir-and-even-mrbeast/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Personal life== Chaudry married his wife Katie in April 2022 and Rosenblum married his wife, Madilyn (née Myers), in April 2024. Both of Rosenblum and Chaudry's homes burnt down in the Palisades Fire in 2025. Dude Perfect organized a GoFundMe page to support them. Both of their wives were pregnant at the time.<ref name="yeung">{{Cite web |last=Yeung |first=Jessie |date=2025-01-10 |title=Pregnant couple's home burns down one day after finishing the nursery |url=https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/los-angeles-wildfires-palisades-eaton-california-01-10-25-hnk |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref name="phillipp">{{Cite web |last=Phillipp |first=Charlotte |date=2025-01-10 |title=YouTube Creators Colin and Samir Lose Palisades Homes to Fire While Both of Their Wives Are Pregnant |url=https://people.com/youtubers-colin-and-samir-lose-palisades-homes-to-fire-both-wives-are-pregnant-8772972 |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=People |language=en |archive-date=May 1, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250501080738/https://people.com/youtubers-colin-and-samir-lose-palisades-homes-to-fire-both-wives-are-pregnant-8772972 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="tw">{{Cite web |last=Turner-Williams |first=Jaelani |date=2025-01-11 |title=YouTube Creators Colin and Samir Lose Palisades Homes |url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/youtube-creators-colin-and-samir-lose-palisades-homes |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Complex Networks |language=en |archive-date=January 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250112041929/https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/youtube-creators-colin-and-samir-lose-palisades-homes |url-status=live }}</ref> Chaudry's son was born in January 2025<ref name="oslo">https://www.instagram.com/p/DGFGBxLx0Qt/?hl=en&img_index=1{{Cite web |date=2025-02-14 |title=Instagram post by Samir Chaudry |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DGFGBxLx0Qt/?hl=en&img_index=1 |access-date=October 3, 2025 |website=Instagram}}</ref> and Rosenblum's son was born in July 2025.<ref name="best">{{Cite web |date=2025-07-14 |title=Instagram post by Madilyn Rosenblum and Colin Rosenblum |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DMGqQhHhg61/?hl=en&img_index=1 |access-date=October 3, 2025 |website=Instagram}}</ref>
==Awards and nominations== {| class="wikitable" !Year !Award !Category !Result !{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |- |rowspan="1" |2022 |rowspan="2" |Streamy Awards |rowspan="2" |Learning and Education |rowspan="2" {{Nominated}} |<ref name="streamy12">{{Cite web |title=12th Annual Streamy Nominees & Winners |url=https://www.streamys.org/nominees-winners/12th-annual-nominees/ |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=The Streamy Awards |language=en |archive-date=August 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828055513/https://www.streamys.org/nominees-winners/12th-annual-nominees/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |rowspan="1" |2023 |<ref name="streamy13">{{Cite web |title=13th Annual Streamy Nominees & Winners |url=https://www.streamys.org/nominees-winners/13th-annual-nominees/ |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=The Streamy Awards |language=en |archive-date=September 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901233930/https://www.streamys.org/nominees-winners/13th-annual-nominees/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *{{Official website|https://www.colinandsamir.com/}} *{{YouTube|c=ColinandSamir}}
Category:1989 births Category:Living people Category:YouTube channels launched in 2016 Category:YouTube duos Category:YouTubers from Los Angeles