YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development GroupThe YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group, founded as Next New Networks, is a company based in New York City. Next New was launched in March 2007 by founders Fred Seibert & Emil Rensing, and co-founders Herb Scannell, Timothy Shey and with $8 million in funding from investors including Spark Capital. The company was the home to online television networks Barely Political, Channel Frederator, , Pulp Secret, Threadbanger, Vsauce, and Indy Mogul, among others.
YouTubeVideo-sharing platformYouTube is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, all of whom were former employees at PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself.
Cable televisionCable television is a system for delivering broadcast programming to viewers by radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cable and through fibre-optic cable.
TBS (American TV channel)TBS (originally an initialism of Turner Broadcasting System) is an American basic cabletelevision network operated by Superstation, Inc., a subsidiary of the Global Linear Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery. It carries a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy, along with some sports events through TNT Sports, including Major League Baseball, Stanley Cup playoffs and the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
CNNCable News Network, Inc. (CNN) is an American multinational newsmedia company and the flagship namesake property of CNN Worldwide, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on June 1, 1980, by American media proprietorTed Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, CNN is the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Turner Broadcasting SystemTurner Broadcasting System, Inc. was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with Time Warner (later WarnerMedia) on October 10, 1996. As of April 2022, all of its assets were absorbed into Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
Advertising revenueAdvertising revenue is the monetary income that individuals and businesses earn from displaying paid advertisements on their websites, social media channels, or other platforms surrounding their internet-based content. In September 2018, the U.S. Internet advertising market was estimated to be worth $111 billion, with market share being held mostly between Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Digital rights managementTechnology to control access to copyrighted works and prevent unauthorized copyingDigital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works.
Channel (broadcasting)In broadcasting, a channel or frequency channel is a designated radio frequency (or, equivalently, wavelength), assigned by a competent frequency assignment authority for the operation of a specific radio station, television station, or television channel.
TNT (American TV channel)American pay television channelTelevision channelTNT (originally an initialism of Turner Network Television) is an American cabletelevision channel owned by the Skydance Television unit of Skydance Corporation. Its sister networks are TBS, TruTV and Turner Classic Movies, with the former two also having sports coverage.
The Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company (TWDC), commonly known as Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986.Online video platformAn online video platform (OVP) enables users to upload, convert, store, and play back video content on the Internet, often via a private server structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue. Users will generally upload video content via the hosting service's website, mobile or desktop application, or other interfaces (API), and typically provide embedded codes or links that allow others to view the video content.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.