![]() ![]() on its destination site ." Īs of 2013, Blip Studios also had exclusive talent and distribution agreements with Channel Awesome,, My Damn Channel, and others. Blip will distribute 16 Yahoo video series. Blip also has partnered with Yahoo whereby "Yahoo will promote 13 shows that Blip has distribution rights to on Yahoo Screen. For example, The Gauntlet, a video-game competition series, was made in partnership with Blip Studios and Rooster Teeth productions. In 2012, Blip announced the launch of Blip Studios headed by Steve Woolf, whereby the company works directly with brands, talent and independent producers of web video to create higher-quality content. Day brought on Max Smith, previously CFO of Talking Media Group, as the new Chief Financial Officer and Jason Krebs, formerly Tremor Video's chief media officer, as the new president of sales and marketing. The company rolled out a new logo and name, dropping the ".TV" and becoming "Blip." Along with the redesign came a change in business policy, and instead of acting mainly as a video distributor, Blip then " its destiny as a video destination with a redesign that put the most popular web series front and center." įollowing the departure of many of the site's founders, Kelly Day, who had previously worked for Discovery Communications, was brought in as the company's new CEO in 2012. The following year, after reaching over three billion cumulative video views, the site underwent a massive overhaul. In 2010, surpassed 100 million video views. ![]() In 2009, 's distribution network grew significantly with the addition of new partnerships with YouTube, Vimeo, NBC Local Media New York and Roku. In 2008, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore teamed up with Blip, alongside Brave New Films, to distribute his movie Slacker Uprising, which was the first time a notable director released a free, feature-length film via the Internet. In 2007, secured funding from Ambient Sound Investments and in 2008 received additional support from Bain Capital. The founders hired their first employee, Eric Mortensen, in 2006 to head up content and programming, making their first explicit move toward becoming a media company. The partners created shortly after they joined Yahoo's video blogging group, and saw an opportunity to create a video-hosting site that focused on being "a best–in-class video hosting, distribution and monetization platform for independent producers of quality video content." The group acquired the domain, created the site's original interface in a week's time then began attracting producers and viewers who were interested in niche video content, such as the web series, for which the site has since become known. ![]() Blip was acquired by Maker Studios in 2013 and shut down by them on August 20, 2015.įounded on May 5, 2005, by Mike Hudack, Dina Kaplan, Justin Day, Jared Klett, and Charles Hope, was bootstrap funded by its founders for the first year of its operation. Blip's mission statement was "to deliver the best original web series to audiences across multiple platforms." The site showcased a wide variety of dramas, comedies, arts, sports and other shows. ![]() It was financed by Bain Capital Ventures, Canaan Partners, and Ambient Sound Investments. The company was founded on May 5, 2005, and it was located in New York City (where the headquarters was located) and Los Angeles. Blip (formerly ) was an American media platform for web series content and also offered a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions. ![]()
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