Following in the footsteps of The Try Guys, Safiya Nygaard, Michelle Khare, Chris Reinacher, Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin, and others, another fleet of former BuzzFeed creators are branching off on their own.
A new digital production company dubbed Watcher Entertainment is slated to bow on Jan. 10, founded by Ryan Bergara, Steven Lim, and Shane Madej. Bergara is the creator and host of BuzzFeed Unsolved, a true crime series he created and co-hosts with Madej. Madej is also the creator and host of Ruining History, which chronicles funny moments in history. Lim, for his part, is the creator and host of Worth It, which stacks up similar items and services of varying price points. All told, the trio says that content created during their tenure at BuzzFeed has generated a combined 2 billion views.
Watcher will launch as a YouTube channel with seven TV-caliber, unscripted digital series, as well as a...
A new digital production company dubbed Watcher Entertainment is slated to bow on Jan. 10, founded by Ryan Bergara, Steven Lim, and Shane Madej. Bergara is the creator and host of BuzzFeed Unsolved, a true crime series he created and co-hosts with Madej. Madej is also the creator and host of Ruining History, which chronicles funny moments in history. Lim, for his part, is the creator and host of Worth It, which stacks up similar items and services of varying price points. All told, the trio says that content created during their tenure at BuzzFeed has generated a combined 2 billion views.
Watcher will launch as a YouTube channel with seven TV-caliber, unscripted digital series, as well as a...
- 12/9/2019
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Former Buzzfeed producer Chris Reinacher is launching today his very own YouTube channel in partnership with AwesomenessTV.
Reinacher, who joined BuzzFeed in 2013 and co-created and appeared in countless popular series including Misheard Lyrics and The Taste Buds Food Adventures, resigned from the company last June -- an hour after BuzzFeed Motion Pictures president Ze Frank issued a memo to staffers stating that employees couldn’t work on outside projects without permission, and reiterating that BuzzFeed owned all content created during their tenure.
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Reinacher, who joined BuzzFeed in 2013 and co-created and appeared in countless popular series including Misheard Lyrics and The Taste Buds Food Adventures, resigned from the company last June -- an hour after BuzzFeed Motion Pictures president Ze Frank issued a memo to staffers stating that employees couldn’t work on outside projects without permission, and reiterating that BuzzFeed owned all content created during their tenure.
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- 4/19/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
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