WatchMojo.com
| Reference, Pop Culture, Infotainment | |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founders | Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, Raphael Daigneault, Christine Voulieris[1] |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Key people | Ashkan Karbasfrooshan (CEO) |
| Website |
watchmojo |
 | |
| Available in | English, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Polish |
|---|---|
| Launched | January 23, 2006 |
Alexa rank |
25498 / 35769  ## (US/Global 07/2015) |
| Current status | Active |
WatchMojo.com is a Canadian-based privately held video content producer, publisher, and syndicator. With more than 5 billion views[2] and over 10 million subscribers,[3] WatchMojo has one of the largest channels on YouTube. It surpassed 10 million subscribers on December 4, 2015. Over 80% of its viewers are male millennials.[4]
History
WatchMojo.com was founded in 2005 by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, Raphael Daigneault, and Christine Voulieris. Other early key employees include Kevin Havill and Derek Allen. The WatchMojo.com website was launched on January 23, 2006 and its YouTube channel was launched on January 25, 2007.[5] WatchMojo is an independent channel, it is neither a Multi-Channel Network (MCN) nor part of one. According to the CEO Karbasfrooshan, WatchMojo employed 23 full-time employees and a team of 100-plus freelance writers and video editors by October 2014.[6] The videos it produces are typically suggestions supplied by visitors of the site on its suggestion tool or its YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter pages. It hit 1 million subscribers on October 30, 2013 and then 5 million subscribers on August 29, 2014. In December 2014, on the day its YouTube channel surpassed 6 million subscribers, it announced a representation deal with talent agency William Morris Endeavor.[7]
Content
WatchMojo.com does not feature user-generated content nor does it allow a mechanism for users to upload videos onto its site.[8] The website produces daily "Top Tens" videos as well as videos summarizing the history of specific niche topics. These topics can be one of 16 categories: automotive, business, comedy, education, fashion, film, anime, health and fitness, lifestyle, music, parenting, politics and economy, space and science, sports, technology, travel, and video games.[9] Each day it publishes over 5 videos for 60–75 minutes of original content.
Business Model
WatchMojo lost money the first six years of operations, broke even in 2012, and has generated a profit since 2013.[10] Due to the 2007–2009 recession, WatchMojo.com had de-emphasized an ad-supported model in favour of licensing fees paid by other media companies to access and use their media. Later that year Beet.tv featured WatchMojo.com alongside Magnify.net as examples of companies which successfully switched from ad-based revenue models to licensing fee based revenue models.[11]
References
- ↑ "About WatchMojo". Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ↑ "YouTube's biggest star PewDiePie ups his game with 4.3bn annual views - HITC Tech". Hereisthecity.com. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ↑ Cohen, Joshua (2015-01-23). "Top 250 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide In 2014". Tubefilter.com. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ↑ http://www.tubefilter.com/2016/01/21/youtube-millionaires-watchmojo/
- ↑ "Watchmojo YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics". Socialblade.com. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ↑ "WMFAQ Ep. 12: How to Work for WatchMojo". YouTube. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ↑ Jarvey, Natalie (2014-12-09). "WME Signs Online Video Producer WatchMojo (Exclusive)". Hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ↑ Alicia Androich; Eve Lazarus; Norma Ramage (9 September 2011). "Canada’s Digital Media Companies to Watch". Marketing. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ "Content Overview". Watchmojo.com. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ↑ http://www.montrealintechnology.com/canadas-largest-youtube-channel-watchmojo-refuses-to-get-comfortable/
- ↑ Whitney, Daisy (22 September 2009). "The Shift from Ad Models to License Fees". Beet.tv. Retrieved 5 February 2012.