Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site | Video hosting service |
Founded | March 2007 |
Headquarters | New York City , United States |
Owner | Vice |
Key people | Spike Jonze (creative director) Suroosh Alvi (Vice co-founder) Shane Smith (Vice co-founder) |
Advertising | Vice Media |
Current status | Merged |
VBS.tv was an online television network owned by Vice Media , and later absorbed into VICE.com. The network produced original, short-form, documentary-style video content under the auspice of VICE Films. Subject matter included humanitarian issues, music, insider travel guides, and news. The creative director of the network was Spike Jonze. [1]
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VBS began as a deal between Viacom-owned MTV Networks and Logo Group. In March 2007, the network was formed; MTV funded the formation of the network, and Vice magazine would supply the content. MTV has rights to distribute VBS content across its worldwide network of channels. [2] According to Vice co-founder Suroosh Alvi, "traditional journalism always aspires to objectivity, and since day one with the magazine we never believed in that...Our ethos is subjectivity with real substantiation. I don't think you see that on CNN." [3]
VBS videos are available via the network's website, as well as being broadcast on MTV Latin America [2] and MTV2. [4] VBS is currently featured as a weekly show on MTV2. [5] VBS.tv content has appeared in CNN as part of their CNN presents line-up, with CNN stating that "... We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers." [6] Much of it is now available at VICE.com.[ citation needed ]
The network's videos feature reporting on popular culture, travel, extreme sports, and music. [7] The site has also produced special-interest and current affairs-based shows such as an interview with Hezbollah's self-proclaimed mayor of Beirut and a show that explored allegations of environmental abuse. It has also approached drug issues, producing a documentary about the criminal use of the drug scopolamine in Colombia, [2] a report on cocaine smuggling submarines [8] and a documentary on hallucinogenic frogs in the Amazon rainforest. [9] [10] Other coverage includes a series of short documentaries about Darfur, Hurricane Katrina, [3] Liberia, North Korea and suicide in Japan's Aokigahara Forest. [11] The network also produced Heavy Metal in Baghdad , a feature-length documentary film about Acrassicauda. The director of content of the network was Santiago Stelley. [12]
Title | Format | Producer | Channel | Year |
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Vice Guide to Travel | Documentary film series | VBS.tv | VBS.tv, MTV2 | 2006 |
Colombian Devil's Breath | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2007 [13] |
Balls Deep: Sewers of Bogota | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2007 |
Asses of the Caribbean | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2007 |
True Norwegian Black Metal | Documentary film series | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2007 |
Heavy Metal in Baghdad | Rockumentary | VBS.tv | VBS.tv, film festivals | 2007 |
Alarma! | Documentary feature | VBS.tv | VBS.tv, film festivals | 2008 |
The Alli Show | Documentary television series | VBS.tv | MTV2 | 2009 [14] |
VBS Meets Watermelon Woman | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2009 |
White Lightnin' | Dramatic feature | VICE Films | Film festivals | 2009 |
Aokigahara Suicide Forest | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2009 [11] |
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia: Sapo Diaries | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2009 |
The Vice Guide to Everything | Television series | VBS.tv | MTV2 | 2010 |
Interview with a Cannibal | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2010 |
Rule Britannia | Documentary film series | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2010 |
The Ride | Documentary feature | VICE Films | Film festivals | 2010 |
Heimo's Arctic Refuge | Documentary film | VBS.tv | VBS.tv | 2010 |
The Fourth Dimension | Three short films | VICE Films | Film festivals | 2012 |
Vice | Documentary television | HBO | HBO | 2013 |
Lil Bub & Friendz | Documentary feature | VICE Films | Film festivals | 2013 |
Reincarnated | Documentary feature | VICE Films | Film festivals | 2013 |
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