DramaFever

DramaFever
Type of businessSubsidiary
FoundedAugust 6, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-08-06)
DissolvedOctober 16, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-10-16)
Successor(s)Max
Headquarters
New York City
,
United States
Key peopleSeung Bak, founder & CEO
Suk Park, founder & President[1]
IndustryVideo on demand
ParentWarner Bros. (2016–18)
URLwww.dramafever.com
RegistrationFree & Subscription

DramaFever was a video streaming website owned by Warner Bros. that offered on-demand streaming video of documentaries, movies, and TV shows with subtitles. DramaFever's content offering was both ad-supported for regular users and available in high definition for premium subscribers.

DramaFever was available on a variety of devices including iPad, iPhone, Android, and Roku.[2] The company's library of international programming was one of the largest licensed U.S. collections available online, in both English and Spanish, and comprised over 15,000 episodes from 70 content partners[3] across 12 countries.[4] More recently, the company branched out into co-producing television dramas, co-producing the 2013 Korean drama The Heirs and the 2014 drama Naeil's Cantabile.[5][6][7] On February 23, 2016, it became a subsidiary of Warner Bros.[8] DramaFever content was available on their own platform as well as via the VRV streaming service. Warner Bros. shut down the service and company on October 16, 2018.[9] Its content was available via VRV until November 1, 2018.[10]

  1. ^ http://www.dramafever.com/company/media.html[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Do you support my device?". DramaFever. December 4, 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2014.[dead link]
  3. ^ J.T. Quigley (May 22, 2015). "Post-acquistion [sic], DramaFever has more muscle to spread Asian entertainment to the West". Tech In Asia. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Digiday (2018-10-19). "'This is a big boy's game now': DramaFever is a casualty of the big-money OTT war". Digiday. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  5. ^ "Dramafever Set To Premiere First Original Co-production The Heirs". Hancinema. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  6. ^ "DramaFever co-produces Tomorrow's Cantabile with KBS". DramaFever. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
  7. ^ Sun, Rebecca (10 October 2014). "DramaFever Unveils Its Second Korean Co-Production". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
  8. ^ "Warner Bros. acquires video-on-demand service DramaFever". Los Angeles Times. 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  9. ^ Son, Angela; Z, Nancy (2019-01-01). "Top 10 Korean Entertainment News of 2018". whatakdrama. Archived from the original on 2019-12-03. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  10. ^ Lopez, Matt (October 16, 2018). "WarnerMedia Shuts Down DramaFever Streaming Service". The Wrap.