Type Subsidiary Callsigns S71 Founded 2011 | Availability International Official website studio71.com/us | |
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Country United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, France, Australia Broadcast area YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, Snapchat, Go90, Seeso, Watchable, Roku Founders Gary Binkow, Reza Izad, Michael Green, Dan Weinstein, Ronald Horstman, Sebastian Weil Parent organizations ProSiebenSat.1 Media (70%), TF1 (6%), Mediaset (5%) Headquarters Beverly Hills, California, United States, Berlin, Germany Areas Los Angeles, New York City, Berlin, Toronto, London, Vienna, Paris Profiles | ||
Building a leading multi channel network ronald horstman studio 71 sdf2015
Studio71, formerly Collective Digital Studio, is a multi-channel network. The company is a joint venture between German media group ProSiebenSat.1 and Mediaset and TF1. 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. Studio 71 currently sits as the 5th most subscribed-to network. 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).
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.
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). 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.