SourceFed Revision
Yesterday’s news that Group Nine Media was shutting down Sourcefed Studios was a hard blow, as I led the team that bought Phil DeFranco’s company (which included Sourcefed) back in 2013 when I was at Discovery — who had purchased my previous company, Revision3, the year before.
The news got me thinking about why many of the YouTube multi-channel networks ultimately failed, and what could have been done differently. I’ve been mulling this for a while — hindsight is always 20/20 of course — and if I could change just one thing it would be how we structured business deals with our creators.