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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | April 9, 2014 |
| Defunct | March 8, 2019 |
| Fate | Reorganized and integrated into WarnerMedia |
| Successor | WBD Ad Sales |
| Headquarters | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Key people | Tony Goncalves (CEO)[1] Andy Forssell (COO) Sean Kisker (CSO) |
| Products | OTT Services Digital Networks Film Production Film Distribution Online Television Programming Events |
| $500 million (2014)[2] | |
| Owner | AT&T/The Chernin Group (2014–2018) WarnerMedia (2018–2019) |
Number of employees | 1,400 (2018) |
| Subsidiaries | Rooster Teeth Gunpowder & Sky (JV) |
| Website | www |
Otter Media Holdings, LLC was an American digital media company owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The company was founded in 2014 by AT&T and The Chernin Group as a holding company of the anime streaming service Crunchyroll, in which the latter invested in 2013.
In addition to Crunchyroll, it owned Rooster Teeth and held an ownership stake in Gunpowder & Sky with Floris Bauer.[3][4][5][6] AT&T would later acquire the remaining stake of Otter Media in 2018, which was folded under the WarnerMedia subsidiary, and later divested Crunchyroll to Sony Pictures Television's subsidiary company Funimation Global Group, LLC in 2021.
- ^ "AT&T Digital Executive Named CEO of Otter Media". hollywoodreporter.com. February 12, 2018.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (April 22, 2014). "AT&T, Chernin Group Invest $500 Million in Over-the-Top Video Venture". Variety.com. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ^ Roettgers, Janko (August 3, 2015). "Chernin, AT&T Set Brand for New Online Video Venture: Ellation (Exclusive)". Variety.com. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ^ Roettgers, Janko (November 4, 2015). "Chernin's Otter Media Aims for More Than $200M Revenue This Year". Variety.com. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ^ Roettgers, Janko (January 24, 2018). "AT&T-Chernin J.V. Otter Media Buys Out Remaining Fullscreen, Crunchyroll Owners". Variety. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
- ^ "Otter Media Buys Remainder of Its Digital Businesses Fullscreen, Ellation". The Hollywood Reporter. January 24, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2022.