Otter Media
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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 who the latter invested in 2013.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Mass media |
Founded | April 22, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-04-22) |
Defunct | April 8, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-04-08) |
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 (2018–2022) Warner Bros. Discovery (2022) |
Number of employees | 1,400 (2018) |
Parent | Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment (2022) |
Subsidiaries | Rooster Teeth Gunpowder & Sky (JV) |
Website | www |
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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, whose folded under the WarnerMedia subsidiary and later divested Crunchyroll to Sony Pictures Television's subsidiary company Funimation Global Group, LLC in 2021.