Marble (toy) Martin Frederick Christensen—also of Akron, Ohio—made the first machine-made glass marbles on his patented machine. His company, The M. F. Christensen & Son Co., manufactured millions of toy and industrial glass marbles until they ceased operations in 1917. The next US company to enter the glass marble market was Akro Agate. This company was started by Akronites in 1911, but located in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Today, there are only two American-based toy marble manufacturers: Jabo Vitro in Reno, Ohio, and Marble King, in Paden City, West Virginia. In Australia, games were played with marbles of different sizes. The smallest and
Jenna Marbles has also created items with some of her most memorable quotes printed on them (e.g. "what are this"). Marbles also hosts a weekly pop countdown on SiriusXM Hits 1 called "YouTube 15". In 2016, Marbles became an executive producer for "Maximum Ride", a film based on the series of novels of the same name by James Patterson. Marbles does a weekly podcast with her boyfriend Julien Solomita called "The Jenna Julien Podcast" (formerly called "The Jenna and Julien Podcast"). Topics focus on things such as stories growing up, conspiracy theories, YouTubers and other general topics. They sometimes feature other YouTubers