Former type Humor, film website Founder Mika Salmi | Founded 1998 Defunct 2012 | |
Industry Online video entertainment, film Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Atom.com (formerly AtomFilms) was a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject movies, animations, and series by independent creators.
The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi.
Buyout
On August 10, 2006, Atom Entertainment was bought by MTV Networks with all its properties, including AtomFilms, Addicting Games, Addicting Clips (renamed AtomUploads) and Shockwave.com. 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.
References
Atom.com Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA