Spin the Bottle (media company)

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Spin The Bottle
Industry Mass media
Entertainment
FoundedNovember 21, 1995;28 years ago (1995-11-21) in New York City
Founders Tad Low and Woody Thompson
Headquarters,
Key people
Tad Low, CEO
Website spinthebottle.com

Spin The Bottle is a Manhattan-based media company that creates original programming and content across multiple platforms, including TV, VOD, mobile and broadband sites. The company was founded in 1995 by Emmy winner [1] Tad Low and Woody Thompson. Four of the company's titles have reached #1 in the prime-time slot for their respective networks, including:

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Spin The Bottle's more recent television series include Pet-O-Rama, Best Places Ever I’ve Ever Been, TXT MSG and Photo ID, which premiered in 2010 on Animal Planet, [4] The Travel Channel, [5] MSG Network [6] and FiOS, respectively.

Spin The Bottle also maintains the entertainment website spinthebottle.com. Original programs include The Truth About (a "Pop-Up Video"-style treatment of breaking news items), First Impressions (an interactive man-on-the-street game), The Baby Taddie Show (a travel series hosted by an opinionated puppet baby) and Spin The Bottle Live (a webcast house party / live music program).

The inventive and playfully subversive spirit of these programs has garnered considerable recognition for Low and his network. Legendary NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff told New York magazine that Tad was “one of the great original minds I have seen in my 20 years of television.” [7] The New York Times has called him “an MTV-style Studs Terkel” [8] while Entertainment Weekly crowned him one of “The 100 Most Creative People In Entertainment.” [9]

Low is a former news correspondent and producer for MTV News, FOX, Good Morning America and CBS News. He graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of The Society of Orpheus & Bacchus. [10] Low continues to lecture frequently on media literacy. [11]

Productions

Television series

TitleYear(s)Network
Best Places I've Ever Been2010 Travel Channel
Pants-Off Dance-Off 2006-2007, 2009, 2010 Fuse, Viva, MuchMusic
Pet-O-Rama2010 Animal Planet
Phly1998 WAMI
Phly2000 Nickelodeon
Photo ID2009-2012 FiOS1
Pop-Up Video 1996-2001 VH1
Pop-Up Quiz1999 VH1
Pop-Up Video UK1999-2001 Channel 4
TXT MSG2010 MSG Network
UPN Alt Games1998 UPN
Video IQ2004-2005 Fuse

Television specials

TitleYear(s)Network
NewsRadio: Our 50th Episode1998 NBC
The Oprah Winfrey Show: Pop-Up Episodes1998Syndicated
Tad's Pad1998 USA Network
Pop-Up Brady2001 Nick At Night
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: VH1's Pop-Up Celebrity Edition2000 ABC

Digital series

TitleYear(s)Website
Momtuition2012 NickMom
Sesame Street Rewind2019 Sesame Street
The Truth About2011, 2014-2015 AOL, Playboy
The Truth About: Dailymotion Videostars2008 Dailymotion
The Truth About: Uncharted2014 Weather.com
This Month In Playboy History2014 -2015 Playboy
TV Junkies2006-2007 TiVo, Dailymotion, Joost, TV Without Pity
View With A Room2013 Scripps Networks Interactive

Motion picture and Television DVD Trivia Tracks

TitleYear(s)Studio
SpongeBob SquarePants Season 32005 Viacom
The Truth About Showgirls 2005 MGM

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