of site reference pop culture infotainment available in english spanish turkish portuguese dutch german french polish created by ashkan karbasfrooshan raphael daigneault christine voulieris 1 launched june 14 2005 ; 11 years ago 2005 06 14 2 alexa rank 25498 35769 us global 07 2015 current status active company headquarters montreal quebec canada key people ashkan karbasfrooshan ceo subsidiaries watchmojo espanol 3 website www.watchmojo.com watchmojo.com is a canadian based privately held video content producer publisher and syndicator . with nearly 1.7 billion views 4 and over 13 million subscribers 5 watchmojo has one of the largest channels on youtube . it surpassed 10 million subscribers on december 5 2015 . 6 40 % of its viewers and 20 % of its subscribers are female and 50 % hail from english speaking countries . 7 contents 1 history 2 content 3 business model 4 references 5 external links history edit watchmojo.com was founded in june 2005 by ashkan karbasfrooshan raphael daigneault and christine voulieris . other early key employees include kevin havill and derek allen . the watchmojo.com website was launched on june 14 2005 and its youtube channel was launched on january 25 2007 . 8 watchmojo is an independent channel it is neither a multi channel network mcn nor part of one . according to the ceo karbasfrooshan watchmojo employed 23 full time employees and a team of 100 plus freelance writers and video editors by october 2014 . 9 the videos it produces are typically suggestions supplied by visitors of the site on its suggestion tool or its youtube facebook and twitter pages . it hit 1 million subscribers on october 30 2013 and then 5 million subscribers on august 29 2014 . in december 2014 on the day its youtube channel surpassed 6 million subscribers it announced a representation deal with talent agency william morris endeavor . 10 content edit watchmojo.com does not feature user generated content nor does it allow a mechanism for users to upload videos onto its site . 11 the website produces daily top ten videos as well as videos summarizing the history of specific niche topics . these topics can be one of 16 categories automotive business comedy education fashion film anime health and fitness lifestyle music parenting politics and economy space and science sports technology travel and video games . 12 each day it publishes over 5 videos for 60 75 minutes of original content . in february 2016 it launched the msmojo channel to better serve female viewers and fans . it also launched multiple non english channels for the spanish french german turkish and polish markets . business model edit watchmojo.com lost money the first six years of operations broke even in 2012 and has generated a profit since 2013 . 13 due to the 2007 2009 recession watchmojo.com had de emphasized an ad supported model in favour of licensing fees paid by other media companies to access and use their media . later that year beet.tv featured watchmojo.com alongside magnify.net as examples of companies which successfully switched from ad based revenue models to licensing fee based revenue models . 14 references edit about watchmojo . retrieved 2015 07 18 . watchmojo.com whois dns & domain info domaintools . whois . 2016 . retrieved 2016 03 08 . https m.youtube.com watch v cb utxffeoc youtube s biggest star pewdiepie ups his game with 4.3 bn annual views hitc tech . hereisthecity . retrieved 2015 05 03 . cohen joshua 2015 01 23 . top 250 most subscribed youtube channels worldwide in 2014 . tubefilter . retrieved 2015 05 03 . watchmojo.com youtube . wayback machine . 2015 12 05 . archived from the original on december 5 2015 . retrieved 2016 04 14 . cs1 maint unfit url link youtube millionaires watchmojo aims to inform and entertain its 10 million subscribers . tubefilter . 2016 01 21 . retrieved 2016 05 22 . watchmojo.com youtube . youtube . retrieved 2016 04 14 . wmfaq ep . 12 how to work for watchmojo . youtube . retrieved 4 november 2014 . jarvey natalie 2014 12 09 . wme signs online video producer watchmojo exclusive . the hollywood reporter . retrieved 2015 05 03 . alicia androich ; eve lazarus ; norma ramage 9 september 2011 . canada s digital media companies to watch . marketing . retrieved 5 february 2012 . content overview . watchmojo . retrieved 2015 05 03 . http www.montrealintechnology.com canadas largest youtube channel watchmojo refuses to get comfortable whitney daisy 22 september 2009 . the shift from ad models to license fees . beet.tv . retrieved 5 february 2012 . external links edit watchmojo.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title watchmojo.com & oldid 744283198 categories companies based in montrealcompanies established in 2005internet properties established in 2006internet television channelsmedia companies of canadayoutube channelsyoutube channels launched in 2007hidden categories cs1 maint unfit url navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages suomi edit links this page was last modified on 14 october 2016 at 08 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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