Maker Studios has reached a deal to acquire Blip, an online video platform that gives the massive network of YouTube channels a way to distribute its videos off of YouTube as well, according to an ...

Of all the demographics, The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) wants to target, younger millennials are at the top of the list. It was no real surprise then when Reuters reported Disney had agreed to buy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about the creators and data behind digital entertainment. Maker will produce three channels for YouTube: Maker Music ...

Disney’s Maker Studios is debuting the second season of reality-TV spoof “Next Time on Lonny” from Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Digital on Maker.TV, a day before it puts the episodes up on YouTube. With the ...

Danny Zappin, a failed actor and jailed drug dealer, co-founded Maker with a simple goal: to become the United Artists of the digital era. But as it became L.A.'s hottest young company and hit 4 ...

It's a digital video partnership designed to shake up YouTube's stranglehold on the biggest video stars, and shift them away from ad-supported platform to an on-demand paid model. IAC's (IACI) premium ...

UPDATE, 2:35 PM: Nearly two weeks after the first report surfaced about an acquisition of the multichannel YouTube network, the studio made it official today. Disney said Maker Studios shareholders ...

YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios has agreed in principle to acquire long-running video distribution network Blip. While the deal hasn’t closed yet and there are a number of issues to be ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Highlighting Web video’s growing value to big media, The Walt Disney Company on Monday said it would acquire Maker Studios for an initial sum of $500 million. Maker Studios is a ...