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| Formerly | DeFranco Creative |
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| Industry | Digital media |
| Founded |
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| Defunct | March 2017[a] |
Number of employees | 25 (2013[2]) |
| Parent | Revision3/Seeker (2013–2016) Group Nine Media (2016–2017) |
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| Channels | |
| Years active | 2013–present |
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| Subscribers | 3.3 million (combined) |
| Total views | 1,467.0 million (combined) |
Last updated: August 21, 2022 | |
SourceFed Studios was an American digital media company and multi-channel network created by Philip DeFranco in 2011. After finding success during the early years of YouTube with his eponymous news show, DeFranco secured funding from YouTube and launched SourceFed as part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative in 2012.
SourceFed was one of the more successful YouTube-funded channels and a nerd culture-focused spinoff, SourceFedNerd, was launched in 2013. DeFranco then sold his DeFranco Creative portfolio, which included SourceFed to Revision3, a subsidiary of Discovery Digital Networks (DDN). Under that portfolio, SourceFed's production and hosting staff launched and worked on various sister channels including SourceFedNerd, People Be Like, Super Panic Frenzy, and ForHumanPeoples (later rebranded as Nuclear Family).
In 2016, DDN folded Revision3 into Seeker and renamed DeFranco Creative as SourceFed Studios. Seeker and SourceFed Studios were then acquired by Group Nine Media in late 2016. In March 2017, Group Nine shut down the remaining SourceFed Studios YouTube channels. SourceFedNerd was briefly rebranded as NowThis Nerd, but Group Nine reversed this after fan backlash. Although inactive, the SourceFed Studios channels remain online.
- ^ Gutelle, Sam (July 5, 2017). "SourceFedNERD Regains Its Branding As NowThis Nerd Moves Out". Tubefilter. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
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