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Maker Studios
TypeOnline content
CountryUnited States
AvailabilityInternational
HeadquartersCulver City, California
Key peopleBen Donovan (President), Danny Zappin (CEO), Lisa Donovan, Ynon Kreiz (Chairman)
Picture format1080p
Official websiteMakerStudios.com

Maker Studios, is a company that emerged from The Station, co-founded by Lisa Donovan, CEO Danny Zappin, Kassem Gharaibeh, Shay Butler and Ben Donovan. YouTube stars Philip DeFranco and Shane Dawson were involved with Donovan and Butler during their collaboration on The Station.

Courtney Holt is the current COO of Maker Studios. Ynon Kreiz, former CEO and Chairman of Endemol is the current Chairman of Maker Studios. Ryan Lissack is the current CTO of Maker Studios.

Content

Maker Studios produces several channels on YouTube, including KassemG, Timothy DeLaGhetto, Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist's Epic Rap Battles of History, along with several others that have almost as many viewers as Nickelodeon. Maker's first three channels produced for YouTube included Maker Music Network, Tutele, and The Mom's View, with both Maker Music Network and Tutele channels shutting down within six months of their launch. In April 2012 Maker Studios partnered with Mike Tompkins. Maker Studios have also signed celebrities such as famous rapper Snoop Lion and his YouTube channel WestFestTV, actor Robert De Niro's Tribeca Enterprises, and Kevin Smith.

Success

In June 2012, Maker Studios announced that the over 1,000 channels signed under the network received an accumulated over 1.1 billion views for the month of June 2012. YouTube channels under Maker Studios have also collectively earned over 90 million subscribers. In October 2012, Maker Studios surpassed Machinima to become the number one independent YouTube network. However, since that time, according to comScore, in December 2012, Fullscreen passed Maker to become the top ranked Youtube-based network. In December 2012, shortly after the Ray William Johnson controversy, Maker announced that it had closed a $36 million round of financing led by Time Warner Investments. The most popular Maker production is Epic Rap Battles of History, which averages 30 million views an episode.

Ray William Johnson

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Maker Studios formerly produced Ray William Johnson's Equals Three and Your Favorite Martian. In October 2012, Johnson announced he would be leaving Maker Studios in an episode of Equals Three. Johnson had also formed his own production studio, Runaway Planet. Ray William Johnson has stated online that he left Maker Studios due to the pressure the company put on him into signing a contract which gives Maker a 40% share of his channel's AdSense revenue and 50% of his show's intellectual property rights. Johnson stated that they were using "thuggish tactics" to pressure him into signing the contract, one of which was allegedly leveraging his AdSense account for the intellectual property rights to YourFavoriteMartian. Johnson also claimed that Maker Studios CEO, Danny Zappin, is a convicted felon, a charge which Zappin later publicly admitted to.

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