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Crackle is an online distributor of original web shows, Hollywood movies, and TV shows.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Crackle at Sony Pictures Television )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Comedians in Cars Redefines Sony's Crackle )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Microsoft teams with Crackle for exclusive TV show )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Crackle.com: Watch Free Movies and TV Shows Online )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sony's Crackle arrives on BlackBerry 10, reminds us to not watch Bad Boys II )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sony Pictures Bringing Online Video to Boxee )〕 Founded in the early 2000s as ''Grouper'' and rebranded in 2007, Crackle is backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The service is free with commercials on all supported platforms. ==History== In August 2006, Sony purchased the online video site Grouper for $65 million. In July 2007, Sony announced that Grouper would be re-branded and re-purposed as Crackle, a multi-platform video-entertainment network and studio, featuring full-length movies and television shows from Sony’s library, and would produce original content made for the Internet.〔〔〔〔 In late 2008, San Francisco based Crackle was moved to Sony’s Culver City base to be formally folded into the studio’s digital content operations.〔 In March 2011, Crackle became available for streaming across PS3, Roku boxes, Sony Blu-ray players and Bravia TVs. In April 2011, Crackle announced that they would release apps for iOS and Android systems in June of the same year.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Crackle bringing free movies to Xbox Live )〕 Crackle also partnered with Xbox Live, making its content available for Xbox 360.〔 In June 2013, Crackle released an app for the BlackBerry 10 platform.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Crackle streaming TV and Movies app arrives for BlackBerry 10 )〕 In December 2013, Crackle made its content available for the Apple TV set-top box.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apple Adds ABC, Bloomberg, Crackle, and KOR TV Channels to Apple TV )〕 In January 2012, Crackle added Animax to its content, available to viewers in the US and Canada.〔〔(Sony’s Crackle Adds Animax Anime Channel )〕 Towards the end of 2013, the Animax branding was removed. In Australia, Crackle became the free-to-air home of popular soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' after the television broadcaster Nine Network axed the series after 45 years. On April 1, 2014, Sony Pictures Television ceased its Crackle operations in the UK almost four years after Crackle had expanded into the UK.〔(Sony Pictures Television shutting down Crackle ) Nigel Adie cable.co.uk March 31, 2014, Retrieved on April 3, 2014〕〔(Sony UK closes down Crackle VOD ) Robert Briel broadbandtvnews.com March 25, 2014, Retrieved on April 3, 2014〕 Crackle UK had struggled to gain a large audience due to other competitors like LoveFilm and Netflix.〔 Two days later, NBCUniversal Television & New Media Distribution struck a multi-year deal with Crackle to have more than 140 of NBCUni's feature films streamed.〔"Deadline" (NBCUniversal Inks Film Streaming Deal With Sony’s Crackle ) deadline.com, Retrieved on April 4, 2014〕 On April 30, 2014, Crackle announced it would begin carrying ''Sports Jeopardy!'', which as its name implies is a sports-themed version of the syndicated game show ''Jeopardy!'', beginning that fall. Dan Patrick will host the series.〔(Sony making a sports version of Jeopardy! ) Associated Press (April 30, 2014). Retrieved April 30, 2014.〕 Approximately one week after the cancellation of the theatrical release of ''The Interview'', in the aftermath of the Sony hack, the ''New York Post'' reported that Sony would release the movie for free, on Crackle. On April 14, 2015, Crackle held its first-ever Upfront presentation. During the event, it announced a new feature dubbed "Always On"; a linear, ad-supported, internet television channel similar to Vevo TV. Among the new programs announced was Crackle's first animated series, ''SuperMansion''; their first hour long scripted drama, ''The Art of More''; and ''Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser'', a sequel to 2001's ''Joe Dirt'' being touted as the first ever "made-for-digital" movie sequel. In June 2010, Crackle became available in the UK and Australia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=G’Day Crackle! Sony’s Online Network Opens Up to Australia, UK )〕 but Crackle shut down its UK service in April 2014 without prior notice. 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「Crackle (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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