All3Media’s digital content arm Little Dot Studios has acquired TV Historian Dan Snow’s History Hit, an online streaming and podcasting company with 100,000 subscribers.
Little Dot will aim to create a history network, combining its own ad-funded channels, such as YouTube channel Timeline, and History Hit’s digital footprint, with Snow working exclusively for the venture. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Andy Taylor, Little Dot co-founder and CEO, said: “As factual history programming has fallen out of favor with some traditional broadcasters, it has boomed on digital platforms across all age groups.
“Together with History Hit, we will have the largest history audience on digital platforms globally and acquiring this brilliant platform will give us not only one of the world’s most recognized historians in Dan Snow, but also the team who are delivering high quality, prestige content.”
Dan Snow, who co-founded History Hit with CEO Justin Gayner,...
Little Dot will aim to create a history network, combining its own ad-funded channels, such as YouTube channel Timeline, and History Hit’s digital footprint, with Snow working exclusively for the venture. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Andy Taylor, Little Dot co-founder and CEO, said: “As factual history programming has fallen out of favor with some traditional broadcasters, it has boomed on digital platforms across all age groups.
“Together with History Hit, we will have the largest history audience on digital platforms globally and acquiring this brilliant platform will give us not only one of the world’s most recognized historians in Dan Snow, but also the team who are delivering high quality, prestige content.”
Dan Snow, who co-founded History Hit with CEO Justin Gayner,...
- 8/11/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Sarah Silverman and Owen Wilson kicked off YouTube's seven-day comedy extravaganza – and David Brent is displaying his guitar skills. We're aiming to cover the lot
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It's YouTube Comedy Week, as anyone who looks at advertising on the side of London buses will know. For the rest of this week, we can expect videos and performances posted at the online video channel by the cream of American and British standup. Stars include Sarah Silverman, Andy Samberg (star of BBC3's Cuckoo and the Stateside favourite Saturday Night Live), Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and more, alongside a host of internet comedy names, including the Onion and Epic Rap Battles of History. It is "the biggest single comedy event in history", says Justin Gayner, executive producer of Comedy Week in the UK, citing YouTube's one billion monthly users.
The event launched last night New York...
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It's YouTube Comedy Week, as anyone who looks at advertising on the side of London buses will know. For the rest of this week, we can expect videos and performances posted at the online video channel by the cream of American and British standup. Stars include Sarah Silverman, Andy Samberg (star of BBC3's Cuckoo and the Stateside favourite Saturday Night Live), Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and more, alongside a host of internet comedy names, including the Onion and Epic Rap Battles of History. It is "the biggest single comedy event in history", says Justin Gayner, executive producer of Comedy Week in the UK, citing YouTube's one billion monthly users.
The event launched last night New York...
- 5/20/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
News Corporation-owned Shine Group has acquired London-based web producer ChannelFlip for an undisclosed sum. Online programming studio ChannelFlip has made web series for stars including Richard Hammond’s Tech Head, Jon Ronson’s Escape and Control, David Mitchell’s Soapbox, Dawn Porter’s Bad Girl Guides and Dom Joly’s Joystick, as well as original series Trendyboy and The Very Real Adventures Of Batman And Robin. The company was co-founded by Justin Gayner, a former co-producer of BBC2 show Qi, and Wil Harris. ChannelFlip is one of YouTube’s biggest premium networks with more than 30 million monthly video views. With the acquisition, Shine Group Chairman and CEO Elisabeth Murdoch intends to turn her company, responsible for shows like MasterChef, Spooks, and Merlin, into a multimedia production company. "This acquisition further underlines Shine Group's relentless commitment to delivering excellence across all platforms and our determination to develop powerful direct to consumer models and connections to audiences,...
- 1/6/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
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