VHX
| File:VHX logo 2013.jpg | |
Type of site | Subsidiary of Vimeo |
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| Founded | 2011 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York State , United States |
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| Industry | digital distribution, film distribution, OVP, SVOD |
| Employees | 25 (as of July 2015)[1] |
| URL | vhx |
VHX was a digital distribution platform targeting independent filmmakers.[2] The platform allows artists to sell content directly from their own website, providing design, social media integration, search engine optimization, and analytics tools.[3] In May 2016, VHX was acquired by Vimeo.[4]
History
[edit | edit source]VHX was founded in 2011, in New York City,[5] by internet researcher Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh as a video sharing community called VHX.tv to discover and watch videos from around the web.[6] It was originally bootstrap funded by the founders for its first year of operation,[2] and in August 2013, it announced a $3.2 million Series A round of financing.[7] It raised a $5 million round led by Comcast Ventures. Investors, who had previously put $3 million into the company, include Union Square Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures and Reddit Chairman Alexis Ohanian.[8] During its beta, it collected over 300 indie films to distribute, which included Sleepwalk with Me, The Act of Killing, and Upstream Color.[9]
After helping Aziz Ansari release his standup special Dangerously Delicious in 2012, VHX shifted its focus to empowering filmmakers to sell their work online.[10]
In June 2013, VHX was named to "The 2013 IndieWire Influencers List".[11] In 2014, it appeared at South by Southwest.[9]
In 2015, VHX had profited $15,000,000, and by that year, had 30,000 subscribers and 10,000 films. In 2016, it was acquired by Vimeo.[4]
Content
[edit | edit source]VHX provided streaming and DRM-free downloads of premium video content for many different artists and distributors.[12] Some titles that have used VHX for online distribution included:
Notable films
[edit | edit source]- March 2012: Dangerously Delicious, Aziz Ansari’s 2011 standup show.
- June 2012: Indie Game: The Movie, a 2012 documentary film about independent game developers by James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot.
- November 2012: "The Invisible Made Visible", a live episode of This American Life.
- November 2012: Miami Connection, a 1987 martial arts film restored by Drafthouse Films.
- February 2013: Sound City, a 2013 documentary film by Dave Grohl.
- April 2013: Upstream Color, a science fiction film by Shane Carruth.
- January 2014: Life Itself, a 2014 documentary film by Steve James. VHX powered the streaming of the film from Sundance to fans who had supported the Indiegogo campaign.
- February 2014: Camp Takota, a 2014 feature film starring YouTube stars Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart.
- February 2014: Mistaken for Strangers, a 2014 documentary about the indie rock band The National.
- April 2014: Stripped, a 2014 documentary about comic strips artists.
- May 2014: Kevin Spacey's "NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage," a 2014 documentary about theater and William Shakespeare's Richard III.
- June 2014: This American Life: Live at BAM, the second live-acted release by Ira Glass and This American Life.
- July 2014: Restrung, a 2014 documentary about animator Randy Fullmer leaving Disney to go make guitars.
- July 2014: Wish I Was Here, a 2014 feature by Zach Braff funded via Kickstarter used VHX for crowdfunding reward fulfillment worldwide.[13]
- August 2014: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a 2014 documentary funded via Kickstarter.[14]
- November 2014: Harmontown, a 2014 documentary about Dan Harmon and his podcast Harmontown after being fired from the TV series he created, Community.
- December 2014: Expelled, a 2014 feature produced by Awesomeness TV starring Vine star Cameron Dallas.
- March 2016: The Watcher Self, a 2016 British psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Matt Cruse.
- March 2016: Winners Tape All: The Henderson Brothers Story, a mockumentary that pays homage to 1980s regional direct-to-VHS horror filmmakers and the influx of horror VHS collectors, directed by Justin Channell.
- April 2016: Amityville: Vanishing Point, the continuation of the Amityville horror mythos featuring Catie Corcoran and Lloyd Kaufman.
Notable series
[edit | edit source]- October 2014: Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, a TV documentary series created for HBO by Dave Grohl and distributed internationally via VHX during its HBO broadcast window in the United States.
- 2014: Black&Sexy TV, a YouTube channel with multiple web series.
- 2014 MeatEater, a non-fiction TV series with Steven Rinella which broadcasts on the Sportsman Channel and uses VHX to facilitate worldwide online sales.
Notable distributors
[edit | edit source]- Comedy Central
- Drafthouse Films
- Dropout
- Devolver Digital
- Kino Lorber
- Oscilloscope Laboratories
- Noize TV
- Telly2Go
- Toku
- Team Locon
- WOW Presents Plus
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