Company type | Humor, film website |
---|---|
Industry | Online video entertainment, film |
Founded | 1998 |
Founder | Mika Salmi |
Defunct | 2012 |
Successor | CC Studios |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
Parent | Paramount Media Networks ( Paramount Global) |
Website |
atom |
Atom.com (formerly AtomFilms) was a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject movies, animations, and series by independent creators. [1] [2] [3] The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi. [4] Sequoia Capital, led by Michael Moritz, was the lead investor in Atom Films. [5] [6]
Atom Films was the first online video platform for Oscar winners Jason Reitman, [7] [8] Aardman Animations, [9] [10] and David Lynch. [11] It was the first site to work with a major intellectual property rights owner to allow derivative works by the general public when it created a partnership with George Lucas and LucasFilm for The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards in November 2000. [12] [13]
On August 10, 2006, Atom Entertainment was bought by MTV Networks (now called Paramount Media Networks) with all its properties, including AtomFilms, Addicting Games, Addicting Clips (renamed AtomUploads) and Shockwave.com. [14] The buyout occurred shortly after negotiations against and subsequently with Google to purchase YouTube. In 2012, Atom.com was absorbed into Comedy Central, and was renamed CC Studios.
Company type | Humor, film website |
---|---|
Industry | Online video entertainment, film |
Founded | 1998 |
Founder | Mika Salmi |
Defunct | 2012 |
Successor | CC Studios |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
Parent | Paramount Media Networks ( Paramount Global) |
Website |
atom |
Atom.com (formerly AtomFilms) was a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject movies, animations, and series by independent creators. [1] [2] [3] The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi. [4] Sequoia Capital, led by Michael Moritz, was the lead investor in Atom Films. [5] [6]
Atom Films was the first online video platform for Oscar winners Jason Reitman, [7] [8] Aardman Animations, [9] [10] and David Lynch. [11] It was the first site to work with a major intellectual property rights owner to allow derivative works by the general public when it created a partnership with George Lucas and LucasFilm for The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards in November 2000. [12] [13]
On August 10, 2006, Atom Entertainment was bought by MTV Networks (now called Paramount Media Networks) with all its properties, including AtomFilms, Addicting Games, Addicting Clips (renamed AtomUploads) and Shockwave.com. [14] The buyout occurred shortly after negotiations against and subsequently with Google to purchase YouTube. In 2012, Atom.com was absorbed into Comedy Central, and was renamed CC Studios.