Studio 71

Studio71
Type Subsidiary
Country United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, France, Italy
Availability International
Founded 2011 (2011)
by Michael Green, Reza Izad and Dan Weinstein
Headquarters Beverly Hills, California
Berlin, Germany
Broadcast area
 YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, Snapchat, Go90, Seeso, Watchable, Roku
Area Los Angeles, New York City, Berlin, Toronto, London, Vienna, Paris, Milan
Parent ProSiebenSat.1 Media (70%)
TF1 (6%)
Mediaset (5%)
Callsigns S71
Official website
 studio71.com/us

Studio71, formerly Collective Digital Studio, is a multi-channel network. The company is a joint venture between German media group ProSiebenSat.1 and TF1 and Mediaset. with headquarters Berlin and Los Angeles. They have additional offices in New York City, Toronto, London, Vienna, and Paris. The company represents just over 1200 channels, together receiving over 6 billion views per month and reaching one in every six millennials.[1] Studio 71 currently sits as the 5th most subscribed-to network.[2] Collective Digital Studio was founded in 2011 by Hollywood talent agent Michael Green. The Collective Digital Studio is a full-service YouTube partner network operating beneath management and media production company The Collective (founded 2005).[3]

Content

The studio has partnered with Rocketjump to create Video Game High School. CDS is equally responsible for the production of the Fred live action television show, the television productions of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange and Epic Meal Empire and the anthology horror film V/H/S (2012) alongside sequel V/H/S/2 (2013).[4] As part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative, Collective Digital Studio was funded to create BlackBoxTV – a horror and science fiction YouTube Channel. Its "I Love Makeup" channel partnered in 2015 with YouTube comedian Colleen Ballinger (a.k.a. Miranda Sings) to create a comic beauty series called How to Makeup.[5]

History

On July 24, 2015, Collective Digital Studios (CDS) agreed to sell itself to ProSiebenSat.1 for $83 million. On January 27, 2016, CDS announced that it was rebranding as Studio71 so the company can operate under one unified global banner. The merger lead to Studio71 becoming the number 1 MCN in Germany and a top 5 Global MCN.

On April 17, 2017, Studio71 was hacked by OurMine, resulting in changes to their partnered channels titles, descriptions and tags which all directed viewers to the hacking groups website.[6] Following this, the hacking group released emails and full names to thousands of their channels publicly after releasing a spreadsheet they discovered containing the account details, and offered to sell the passwords to these channels dashboard for $700.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "About Collective Digital Studio". Retrieved October 21, 2013. Delivering 1 in 6 Millennial Video Viewers Per Month … 100+ Premium Channels … 200+ Million Video Views
  2. ↑ "Top 50 Youtube Networks by Most Subscribed". Retrieved October 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Relationship with Collective". Retrieved October 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ Wallenstein, Andrew. "Media bigs flock to YouTube power players". Variety. Retrieved 16 June 2013. Collective had success with two kid-centric properties, the "Fred" franchise that moved from YouTube to a series of films at Nickelodeon, and then "The Annoying Orange," which followed the same arc to its own Cartoon Network series.
  5. ↑ Patel, Sahil. "CDS and Colleen Ballinger (and Miranda Sings) Debut New Makeup Series", TheVideoInk.com, June 18, 2015
  6. ↑ "‘Biggest hack in YouTube history’: Cyber security group OurMine disrupts millions". RT International. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  7. ↑ "Our Mine Hacks Studio 71".
  8. ↑ "Studio71 Channels Hacked By ‘OurMine’, Including Roman Atwood, Lilly Singh, Logan Paul".
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