Best Youtuber: MARY SPENDER vs MATT PARKER

Mary Spender (born 2 July 1990) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist and YouTube personality. Spender writes and performs original songs. Her guitar style has been described as "crisp" with a "harmonically rich, percussive style" and her songwriting as "confessional" and "sultry". Her music has been broadcast on various radio stations including BBC Radio. Her YouTube channel is themed on music and music technology. It has included interviews with guitarists K.T. Tunstall, Jen Majura, James Valentine, Devin Townsend, Kaki King, and Tomo Fujita. She has also appeared on other YouTube channels such as Andertons and That Pedal Show. Spender was born at the British Military Hospital in Rinteln, Germany, the daughter of a British Army officer. She studied classical music at the University of Bristol, including playing the viola and classical singing.

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Matthew Thomas Parker (born 22 December 1980) is an Australian recreational mathematician, author, comedian, YouTube personality and science communicator. His book Humble Pi was the first maths book in the UK to be a Sunday Times #1 bestseller. Parker was the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He is a former maths teacher and has helped popularise maths via his tours and videos. After college, Parker taught maths in Australia for a while before moving to London and continuing teaching. He became involved in support education, working with universities and other organizations to arrange maths talks. He later went back to teaching, before stopping after one year. He now helps students communicate mathematics to other people, speaks at schools, does media work, and occasionally writes about maths. His goal is "to get more people more excited about maths." Parker has appeared in numerous YouTube videos, talking about various subjects related to mathematics. He has his own YouTube channel, "Stand-up Maths", with over 850,000 subscribers, and also frequently appears as a guest on other popular channels such as Brady Haran's Numberphile and James May's "BritLab|Head Squeeze" (now BritLab). Parker has made videos about unboxing calculators, including the Little Professor; he presents these videos as a member of a fictional "Calculator Appreciation Society". He also appeared in a Tom Scott YouTube video, where they gave tips for users of the London Underground. Parker has toured the UK, both solo and as part of comedy group Festival of the Spoken Nerd, along with Helen Arney and Steve Mould. His first solo tour, Matt Parker: Number Ninja, finished in July 2013, while his second solo tour, "Matt Parker: Now in 4D", started in late 2014.

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