Mr. Kate finds a home at Maker Studios The Disney-owned MCN signs the YouTube lifestyle and D.I.Y. expert (real name: Kate Albrecht), whose first book is due in June. April 8, 2015 Disney-owned Maker Studios announced on Tuesday it has signed lifestyle and do-it-yourself expert Kate Albrecht, a.k.a. Mr. Kate, to its multi-channel network. Albrecht’s YouTube channel has racked up more than 314,000 subscribers and 22.4 million views. Her programming has ranged from branded Style Challenge videos for Target to the series A Hollywood Home, both of which co-starred her husband Joey Zehr, the former drummer for The Click Five. In 2013, she signed a licensing deal with Lamps Plus for her own line of lampshades, and now she’s penned her first book