Frederator Studios is an American animation television production studio which is a division of Frederator Networks, Inc. It was founded by Fred Seibert in 1997 with its first series launching in 1998. The studio focuses primarily on artists who write their own shorts, series, and movies. Their slogan is "Original Cartoons since 1998." The studio has locations in New York City, where Frederator Digital is based, and Burbank, California.
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Owned by Google, it is the second most visited website, right after Google itself. YouTube has more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.
As the world's largest video hosting website and second most visited website both by Alexa Internet and SimilarWeb, and used by 81% of U.S. adults, YouTube has had social impact in many fields, with some individual videos of the site having directly shaped world events.
ShiftyLook was a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings that was focused on revitalizing older Namco franchises, with their first step being video game webcomics based on the company's various franchises. The subsidiary later offered webtoons, anime, playable games, music, message boards, and graphic novels as well. ShiftyLook regularly held substantial exhibitions at large US comics conventions, having a major booth presences and holding large giveaways of promotional merchandise.
Philip James DeFranco, commonly known by his online nickname PhillyD, is an American news commentator and YouTube personality. He is best known for The Philip DeFranco Show, a news commentary show centered on current events in politics and pop culture.
Squaresville is an American comedy web series created by Matt Enlow. The series follows best friends Esther and Zelda as they deal with life in their suburban town, one adventure at a time. It premiered on YouTube on March 16, 2012.
Fullscreen, LLC is an American entertainment company which offers tools, services, and consultation to social media content creators and brands, multi-channel network. It is owned by Otter Media, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
A multi-channel network (MCN) is an organization that works with video platforms to offer assistance to a channel owner in areas such as "product, programming, funding, cross-promotion, partner management, digital rights management, monetization/sales, and/or audience development" in exchange for a percentage of the ad revenue from the channel.
Defy Media was an American digital media company that produced original online content for the 12–34 age group. Originally founded in 1996 as Alloy Online, the final company was formed in 2013 by its merger with Break Media.
BroadbandTV Corporation is a Canadian media and technology company founded by CEO Shahrzad Rafati in 2005. The company is the second largest video property by unique viewers across the top 12 countries in the world, according to comScore, with head office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Edge of Normal is an American sci-fi web series created by Amanda Overton as her graduate thesis project from University of Southern California (USC). Inspired by Amanda's love for popular comics and films such as X-Men and The Dark Knight, Edge of Normal is a unique mixture of sci-fi and superhero elements in a web serialized format. In 2013 the web series was bought for distribution by Wonderly. Wonderly is a YouTube Multi-Channel Network, subsidiary of Big Frame that focuses on innovative female creators. Edge of Normal premiered its first season on July 16, 2013, with the episode "Natalie".
Patreon is an American membership platform that provides business tools for content creators to run a subscription service. It helps creators and artists earn a monthly income by providing rewards and perks to their subscribers. Patreon charges a commission of 9 to 12 percent of creators' monthly income, in addition to payment processing fees.
Warner/Chappell Music Inc. et al. v. Fullscreen Inc. et al. (13-cv-05472) was a case against multi-channel network Fullscreen, filed by the National Music Publishers Association on behalf of Warner/Chappell Music and 15 other music publishers, which alleged that Fullscreen illegally reaped the profits of unlicensed cover videos on YouTube without paying any royalties to the rightful publishers and songwriters.
Playlist Live is an annual convention held in Orlando, Florida and Washington D.C., primarily for YouTube and TikTok content creators. The convention has been held annually since 2010. The convention has also been held in the tri-state area as well as Orlando and Washington. The most recent event took place on September 3-September 5, 2021. The next event is scheduled for September 2-September 4, 2022. Notable content creators that have attended the event include Tana Mongeau, David Dobrik, Rebecca Black and Ricky Dillon. Content creators who are part of the Fullscreen multi-channel network, including MaxNoSleeves and Kristina Urribarres have also attended.
Frederator Networks, Inc. is a media company founded by Fred Seibert. It makes and distributes cartoons, often on Channel Frederator, and through its in-house animation studio Frederator Studios. It is the largest distributor of independent animation online.
Adober Studios, formerly known as Chicken Pork Adobo, was a YouTube multi-channel network owned and operated by Filipino media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. It was the country's first and only YouTube-certified multi-channel network.
DC Super Hero Girls or DC Superhero Girls is an American superhero web series and franchise created by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Entertainment that launched in the third quarter of 2015.
A beauty YouTuber, commonly referred to as a "beauty vlogger", "beauty guru", "beauty influencer," or "Beautuber", is a person who creates and posts videos to YouTube about cosmetics, fashion, hair-styling, nail art, and other beauty-related topics. As of 2016, there were more than 5.3 million beauty videos on YouTube, and 86 percent of the top 200 beauty videos were made by beauty vloggers as opposed to beauty brands.
Wonder Quest is an edutainment children’s web series from Disney’s Maker Studios. It is created by Joseph Garrett, a prominent YouTube commentator who posts videos primarily set in the sandbox game Minecraft as his internet persona "Stampy Cat". The series is scripted by Patrick Muhlberger, Ryan Burns, and Garrett, and produced by Muhlberger. The Minecraft educational content was initially developed by Adam Clarke, who stars alongside Garrett as his own persona, "Wizard Keen".
Social Blade is an American website that tracks social media statistics and analytics. Social Blade most notably tracks the YouTube platform, but also has analytical information regarding Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Trovo, Dailymotion, Mixer, DLive, and StoryFire. Social Blade functions as a third-party API, providing its users with aggregated data from these various social media platforms. Jason Urgo is the CEO of Social Blade.
