Minnesota Teenager Reaching Stardom by Broadcasting Life on Internet

Dylan Reichstadt may appear to look like an average Minnesota teenager, going to Park High School everyday living a suburban life in Cottage Grove. However, Dylan is far from being a normal teenager and is already forming what soon may become an entrepreneurial empire for the 16 year old.

Taking full advantage of how media has changed over the last few years, Dylan has been able to use the increasingly popular Justin.tv, among other social media sites, to podcast his life, referred to as lifecasting, nearly every hour for the past year. On Justin.tv, Dylan is known as DylanLive on DTE Lifecast and has an average following of around 40 people. During one of his episodes over 700 people across the world were tuned into Dylan’s lifecast, watching what this Minnesota teenager was up to. Besides the regulars that tune into DTE Lifecast, over 667,000 thousand people have viewed it! While watching Dylan, viewers are able to interact with him through a chat room.

Dylan continues to learn as much as he can about the broadcasting world. Along with taking classes at Park High School, this summer Dylan interned at Minneapolis-based music and media company, 50 Entertainment, where he helped create News & Views, a bi-weekly entertainment news series featured on YouTube.

Dylan also knows more about the business world than just video. Through reaching out to musicians, Dylan was able to find a Massachusetts-based solo-artist, Nick Consone, to sponsor DTE Lifecast. With the mix of business, creative and broadcasting knowledge that comes so easily to Dylan, he is sure to make his mark on the entertainment and media world.

After the recent tragic suicide that was unfortunately broadcasted using Justin.tv, Dylan reacts, “People can be quite demanding, I choose to ignore them and boot them out of the room. When lifecasting you get the good side of people, but there will always be someone trying to ruin your day. It’s an unfortunate side of human nature that I choose to ignore.”