| Product type | Online Animation Community |
|---|---|
| Owner | MyToons Holdings, Inc. Co-Founders: Paul Ford, Stacey Ford, Dan Kraus |
| Country | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| Introduced | 2006, launched March 2007 |
| Markets | Worldwide |
| Website | http://www.mytoons.com |
MyToons was an online business that developed a free online community for animation that supported content sharing and social networking.[1] MyToons.com was headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.[2]
The site was founded in 2006 by Paul Ford, Stacey Ford and Dan Kraus as a spinoff of Bauhaus Software.[3] The Texas Emerging Technology Fund supported it with a $500,000 grant.[3]
After four months of private beta, the site launched publicly in March 2007 during the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and began distributing member-created animation videos to Internet audiences worldwide. Three weeks after its launch, MyToons had received more than 1.5 million unique visitors.[4]