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Blip (formerly blip.tv) was a media platform for web series content and also offered a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions. The company was founded on May 5, 2005, and it was located in New York City (where the headquarters was based) and Los Angeles. It was financed by Bain Capital Ventures, Canaan Partners, and Ambient Sound Investments. Blip’s mission statement was “to deliver the best original web series to audiences across multiple platforms.” The site showcases a wide variety of dramas, comedies, arts, sports and other shows. Blip was acquired by Maker Studios in 2013, and shut down by them on August 20, 2015. It is in the process of bringing many of its former content producers to a new website, maker.tv. ==History== Founded on May 5, 2005 by Mike Hudack, Dina Kaplan, Justin Day, Jared Klett, and Charles Hope, blip.tv was bootstrap funded by its founders for the first year of its operation. The partners created blip.tv shortly after they joined Yahoo’s video blogging group, and saw an opportunity to create a video-hosting site that focused on being “a best–in-class video hosting,distribution and monetization platform for independent producers of quality video content.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blip.tv vs. YouTube? Founder talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview )〕 The group acquired the blip.tv domain, created the site’s original interface in a week’s time then began attracting producers and viewers who were interested in niche video content, such as the web series, for which the site has since become known. In 2007, blip.tv secured funding from Ambient Sound Investments and in 2008 received additional support from Bain Capital. In 2008, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore teamed up with Blip, alongside Brave New Films, to distribute his movie ''Slacker Uprising'', which was the first time a notable director released a free, feature-length film via the Internet.〔mashable.com/2008/09/23/michael-moore-slacker-uprising-download/〕 In 2009, blip.tv’s distribution network grew significantly with the addition of new partnerships with YouTube, Vimeo, NBC Local Media New York and Roku. In 2010, blip.tv surpassed 100 million video views. The following year, after reaching over three billion cumulative video views, the site underwent a massive overhaul. The company rolled out a new logo and name, dropping the “.TV” and becoming “Blip.” Along with the redesign came a change in business policy, and instead of acting mainly as a video distributor, Blip then "() its destiny as a video destination with a redesign that put the most popular blip.tv web series front and center." Following the departure of many of the site’s founders, Kelly Day, who had previously worked for Discovery Communications, was brought in as the company’s new CEO in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=So What Do You Do, Kelly Day, CEO of Blip? )〕 Day brought on Max Smith, previously CFO of Talking Media Group, as the new Chief Financial Officer and Jason Krebs, formerly Tremor Video's chief media officer, as the new president of sales and marketing. In 2012, Blip announced the launch of Blip Studios headed by Steve Woolf,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blip Gets into Originals with Blip Studios, Names Steve Woolf Pres. )〕 whereby the company works directly with brands, talent and independent producers of web video to create higher-quality content.〔techcrunch.com/2012/06/28/blip-original-content/〕 For example, ''The Gauntlet'', a video-game competition series, was made in partnership with Blip Studios and Rooster Teeth productions. Blip also has partnered with Yahoo whereby "Yahoo will promote 13 shows that Blip has distribution rights to on Yahoo Screen. Blip will distribute 16 Yahoo video series... on its destination site Blip.tv." As of 2013, Blip Studios also has exclusive talent and distribution agreements with Channel Awesome, Juliansmith.tv, My Damn Channel, and others. Blip Studios content has cumulatively received more than 250,000,000 views. In the same year, Blip announced its intention to host content created by Ray William Johnson, ''The Dark Knight Rises'' producer Michael Uslan,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Dark Knight Rises' Producer Sets Film Noir Superhero Web Series (Exclusive) )〕 and Fremantle Media North America, producer of ''American Idol'' and ''The Pet Collective''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fremantle Breaks with YouTube on Pets Channel Ad Deal )〕 On August 21, 2013, Blip.tv was acquired by Maker Studios. The executive team of Blip.tv was included in the acquisition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maker Studios Acquires Web Series Developer and Distributor Blip )〕 After the acquisition, some user agreement terms were changed, including new requirements that content must be demonstrated to be part of a series and of high quality. Facebook commenting was added around the same time. Maker Studios shut down Blip.tv on August 20, 2015. The website now redirects to maker.tv. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blip to Shut Down Its Web Video Site On August 20 - Variety )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blip (website)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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