Mondo Media
American animation company
Mondo Media, Inc. is an American independent multimedia company that mainly produces online independent animation aimed at mature audiences. It was founded in 1988 by John Evershed and Deirdre O'Malley in San Francisco, California.
Before Mondo Mini Shows, which mainly was the core of Happy Tree Friends content, the company initially created content for various tech companies, before developing two video games, Critical Path in 1993 and The Daedalus Encounter in 1995, under the name Mechadeus. In the latter half of the 1990s, Mondo refocused on producing internet-based animation, under name Mondo Mini Shows which became the company's main business.
Mondo's most successful and popular shows are Happy Tree Friends, which has since spawned a multimedia franchise; and Dick Figures, which was adapted into a feature-length film and was nominated for an Annie Award.
According to AdAge Magazine in January 2013, Mondo Media was the top-ranked and all-time most popular YouTube channel, with 1.3 billion views and 1.3 million subscribers. In July of 2021, the official website itself was blocked in Russia due to the Roskomnadzor banning the animated series Happy Tree Friends.
History
In 2013, Canadian channel Bite teamed up with Mondo Media and YouTube to create Bite on Mondo, a program in which content creators pitched ideas for new shows. The pitches are funded through Mondo and use YouTube's popularity to decide whether or not they will be picked up.
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