Mondo Media, Inc. is an American multimedia company that mainly produces online independent animation aimed at teens and young adults. It was founded in 1988 by John Evershed and Deirdre O'Malley in

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. Before ''Mondo Mini Shows'', which mainly was the core of HTF content. the company initially created content for various tech companies, before developing two video games, ''Critical Path'' in 1993 and ''

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'' in 1995, under the name Mechadeus. In the latter half of the 1990s, Mondo refocused on producing internet-based animation, under name Mondo Mini Shows which became the company's main business. Mondo's most successful and popular shows are ''

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'', which has since spawned a multimedia franchise; and ''

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'', which was adapted into a feature-length film and was nominated for an

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Magazine in January 2013, Mondo Media was the top-ranked and all-time most popular

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channel, with 1.3 billion views and 1.3 million subscribers.

Television

In 2013, Canadian channel

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teamed up with Mondo Media and YouTube to create ''Bite on Mondo'', a program in which content creators pitched ideas for new shows. The pitches are funded through Mondo and use YouTube's popularity to decide whether or not they will be picked up. The winning pitches were broadcast on Bite on August 29, 2014. In October 2014, Blue Ant Media, along with Mondo Media and

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announced that

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would air a new series featuring shorts from the program. It was expected to premiere in 2016 on

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, but instead premiered on September 4, 2015 as ''

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'' on

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. In 2015, Mondo Media produced the

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series '' Like, Share, Die'' for Fusion, consisting of several short segments and episodes of Mondo-produced web series. On September 19, 2016, it was announced that

6 Point Harness 6 Point Harness is an American animation studio and production label of Mondo Media based in Los Angeles. It develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, commercial, music videos and web-based content. Founded by Brend ...

will be merged with Mondo Media, with Mondo Media as the surviving entity; Mondo would produce its television shows with the 6 Point Harness label, while maintaining their original name for consumer-facing activities and distribution of their web series. 6 Point Harness' founder and CEO Brendan Burch would replace John Evershed as the CEO of Mondo Media, though Evershed remains on the board of directors of the company. In May 2019,

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aired an anthology of Mondo series called the ''Mondo Animation Hour''.

Television shows

Mondo Media

6 Point Harness

Web series

Failed pilots

Feature films

Graphic and art design

Video games

References

External links

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