TYT Network
Online news network · Los Angeles
- Founded
- 2002
- Entered
- 2005
- Placed at
- 2005: founded 2002, before the timeline start; shown from 2005
- Status 2026
- Active
- Metro
- Los Angeles
- Embeddedness
- 1 connections
- Confidence
- verified · strongest source trade or financial press
Method
Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Dave Koller start The Young Turks on Sirius in February 2002, move to YouTube in 2005 and build TYT Network in Los Angeles on viewer subscriptions, reported as a third of about 3 million dollars of 2013 revenue, plus YouTube ads. It raises a 4 million dollar convertible note in 2014, 4.25 million dollars from individual investors in 2015 and 2 million dollars by crowdfunding in 2016, then 20 million dollars on August 8, 2017 led by 3L Capital with Greycroft, e.ventures and Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo, planning to double staff from about 100. It lays off staff and retires its entertainment shows in August 2018 and runs on YouTube with Ana Kasparian as co host.
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The path: money and goods moving
- paid byYouTubeYouTube ads supply a reported two thirds of TYT's roughly 3 million dollars of 2013 revenue, and TYT channels draw 200 million monthly views in 2017.2006 to present