CollegeHumor
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Type of site
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Entertainment website |
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| Owner | IAC |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 4190 (February 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | December 7, 1999 |
CollegeHumor is a comedy website based in Los Angeles and owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. It was created by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's editorial staff wrote and starred in their own TV show, The CollegeHumor Show, on MTV. CollegeHumor is operated by CHMedia, a New York company that also owns Defunker, Sports Pickle, and Jest (formerly Today's Big Thing, also owned by IAC).
CHMedia is also a partner of the website BustedTees, an online clothing website.
Many of its staff also operate the sister website Dorkly, centering on video games and video game parodies in the vein of CollegeHumor.
The site was created in December 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen, with help from web developer Jakob Lodwick. Abramson and Van Veen were high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland. The site traffic averages over 7 million monthly unique visitors, according to Quantcast direct measurement.
Abramson said in an interview, "[We wanted to start] an advertisement-based business because at the time the advertising market was pretty hot and we’d seen other people develop Web sites that were popular making a lot of money." Their aim was to create a humor site that would appeal to the advertiser-friendly college-aged demographic.
CollegeHumor, along with its parent company, Connected Ventures, was acquired by Barry Diller's IAC in August 2006.
In recent years, CollegeHumor has become known for its original comedy content. The site has been nominated for the Webby Award in the humor category, and many of their individual videos have been nominated for and/or won Webby Awards. Recent winners include "Pixar Intro Parody" for Best Animation, "Web Site Story" for Best Individual Short or Episode, and "Jake and Amir" for Best Series. Their shorts "Awkward Rap" and "Hand Vagina" were nominated for the Webby Award for Best Comedy: Individual Short or Episode in 2008 and 2009 with other nominees and winners since.
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