founded san francisco california july 2007 headquarters culver city california united states number of locations culver city ca miami florida area served north america south america central america australasia services digital streaming owner sony parent sony pictures entertainment website www.crackle.com crackle is an online distributor of original web shows hollywood movies and tv shows . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 founded in the early 2000s as grouper rebranded in 2007 crackle is owned by sony pictures entertainment . the service is free with commercials on all supported platforms . 10 contents 1 history 2 programming 2.1 original programming 2.2 movie and tv library 2.3 content partners 3 availability 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit the examples and perspective in this section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject . you may improve this article discuss the issue on the talk page . may 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message in august 2006 sony purchased the online video site grouper for 65 million . 11 12 in july 2007 sony announced that grouper would be re branded and re purposed as crackle a multi platform video entertainment network and studio featuring full length movies and television shows from sony s library and would produce original content made for the internet . 6 9 11 12 in late 2008 san francisco based crackle was moved to sony s culver city base to be formally folded into the studio s digital content operations . 12 in march 2011 crackle became available for streaming across ps3 roku boxes sony blu ray players and bravia tvs . 13 in april 2011 crackle announced that they would release apps for ios and android systems in june of the same year . 10 14 15 crackle also partnered with xbox live making its content available for xbox 360 . 15 in june 2013 crackle released an app for the blackberry 10 platform . 8 16 in december 2013 crackle made its content available for the apple tv set top box . 17 18 in january 2012 crackle added animax to its content available to viewers in the us and canada . 15 19 towards the end of 2013 the animax branding was removed . in australia crackle became the free to air home of popular soap opera days of our lives after the television broadcaster nine network axed the series after 45 years . 20 on april 1 2014 sony pictures television ceased its crackle operations in the uk and australia almost four years after crackle had expanded into the uk . 21 22 crackle uk had struggled to gain a large audience due to other competitors like lovefilm and netflix . 21 two days later nbcuniversal television & new media distribution struck a multi year deal with crackle to have more than 140 of nbcuni s feature films streamed . 23 24 but crackle shut down its uk service in april 2014 without prior notice . 25 on april 30 2014 crackle announced it would begin carrying sports jeopardy which as its name implies is a sports themed version of the syndicated game show jeopardy beginning that fall . dan patrick will host the series . 26 approximately one week after the cancellation of the theatrical release of the interview in the aftermath of the sony hack the new york post reported that sony would release the movie for free on crackle . 27 on april 14 2015 crackle held its first ever upfront presentation . during the event it announced a new feature dubbed always on ; a linear ad supported internet television channel similar to vevo tv . among the new programs announced was crackle s first animated series supermansion ; their first hour long scripted drama the art of more ; and joe dirt 2 beautiful loser a sequel to 2001 s joe dirt being touted as the first ever made for digital movie sequel . 28 programming edit the examples and perspective in this section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject . you may improve this article discuss the issue on the talk page . may 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message crackle features programming in the following key genres action comedy crime drama horror and sci fi . 29 original programming edit further information list of original programs distributed by crackle crackle has produced and distributed original programing including comedians in cars getting coffee chosen sports jeopardy and full length feature films extraction and joe dirt 2 . 1 5 30 31 32 33 34 35 movie and tv library edit crackle features many columbia pictures tristar pictures screen gems and sony pictures classics titles and sony distributed television series like damages rescue me the shield and seinfeld . 1 35 36 its content refreshes monthly with titles being added and taken down . 4 29 36 content partners edit aniplex 37 fox digital 38 funimation 39 lions gate entertainment 40 metro goldwyn mayer 40 red bull 41 snagfilms 42 43 44 toei 45 universal studios 23 entertainment one alliance films canada only the walt disney company miramax the weinstein company dimension films warner bros. new line cinema morgan creek productions legendary pictures legendary digital media ratpac dune entertainment village roadshow entertainment group studiocanal europe only 20th century fox paramount pictures availability edit crackle is available in 21 countries and three languages english spanish and portuguese . 2 16 crackle is available in australia but its program lineups there do not exactly mirror those in the united states . 24 see also edit sony liv video on demand references edit a b c hale mike 14 october 2013 . taking killers and thrillers to the web . new york times . retrieved 20 november 2013 . a b crackle at sony pictures television . iab . retrieved 20 november 2013 . comedians in cars redefines sony s crackle . ad week . retrieved 20 november 2013 . a b wilson jeffrey l. crackle for ipad . pcmag . retrieved 20 november 2013 . a b microsoft teams with crackle for exclusive tv show . beta news . retrieved 20 november 2013 . a b newfronts sony s crackle takes david arquette to 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